A pony car with a history that spans 35 years, the Pontiac Firebird is one of the most iconic nameplates in the world of ...

The first Pontiac muscle car to ever offer the now-iconic Trans Am package ... cost owners $724.60 over the base Firebird's $2,942 MSRP back in '69.

The Trans Am is a high-performance variant of the Firebird that Pontiac first offered as a specialty package in 1969. Pontiac would produce four great and not-so-great generations of the Firebird ...

a 400-horsepower Pontiac is hard to ignore, regardless of whether it's an original Trans Am or a mundane Firebird. This one is also impressively clean inside and out. Check it out in the video below.

Pontiac introduced the GTO Judge and the Firebird Trans Am around the same time in the 1969 model year, but one was a success and the other was a failure. Care to guess which one was the latter?

Aside from the external differences (the T/A's spoilers and the shaker hood scoop), the Pontiac Firebird Formula was very similar to the Trans Am underneath. A firmer suspension was standard ...

"I wanted people to appreciate Pontiac's original design ... During the process Bob chose to equip his Firebird with the exterior features exclusive to the '69 Trans Am. The reproduction hood ...

Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition spent over 40 years with a single owner, but only traveled 1,000 miles ...

Pontiac got an F-Body of its own five months later with the Pontiac Firebird ... Only 689 Pontiac Trans Am coupes and a scant eight convertibles left the factory for the ’69 model year.

The Firebird ... legendary '69 GTO Judge with its 370-gross-horsepower 400-cubic-inch V-8. And in handling and braking, it wouldn't even be a contest. Around town, the Trans Am has a few quirks ...

"I wanted people to appreciate Pontiac's original design ... During the process Bob chose to equip his Firebird with the exterior features exclusive to the '69 Trans Am. The reproduction hood ...