Ad of the Week: Were They Kidding?

When Pontiac started using the phrase “We build excitement,” I highly suspect that it was never intended to be used in conjunction with this pair from 1980.
Read it carefully (below): That 41 percent increase in mileage was the “highway” increase, and it was based on available powertrains (with an asterisk) versus the 1979 model. That […]

No kiss for winning?

As I mentioned when I posted the photo of the Jeep assembly line last week, Chrysler’s media site doesn’t have nearly as many vintage photos (“heritage photos,” as Chrysler calls them) as Ford’s, but there’s still some interesting nuggets in there. Of course, with the new Fiat 500 coming to the States shortly, Fiatsler trotted […]

T/A-ify your Camaro

Immediately after the announcement of the end of Pontiac, we say a flurry of interest in building new versions on the Camaro platform.  Lingenfelter showed a TA concept car at SEMA last fall, and ASC publicized an upcoming conversion of their own. And while Lingenfelter has built four or five, we haven’t heard anything from […]