Interview: Rick Dobbertin on his Pontiac J2000 pro streeter
Twin superchargers, twin turbos and nitrous were just the start of the insanity housed within Rick Dobbertin’s legendary Pontiac J2000 pro streeter
Tony Baohm’s blown 427 LS7-powered 1971 Trans Am
A Trans Am so outrageous it makes grown men cry!
Harrop-blown 1964 Pontiac Bonneville
This epic Harrop-blown LS-powered ’64 Pontiac Bonneville was built by one of Street Machine’s longest serving contributors
Eager Maniac Trans Am-fronted, T-top HQ Monaro GTS
Back in the 1980s, Neil James set out to wow the show scene with his super-loud custom Monaro. Mission accomplished!
Video: Harrop-supercharged 1964 Pontiac Bonneville
The covers come off Iain Kelly’s Harrop-blown 1964 Pontiac Bonneville
1967 Pontiac Firebird convertible – flashback
Only the best will do. That was the credo behind this Firebird convertible jaw-dropper
535ci Pontiac on the engine dyno – Video
535ci big-block Pontiac engine makes impressive power on the engine dyno
Flashback: Mario Colalillo’s chopped 1963 Pontiac
A look back at our 2001 feature on Mario Colalillo’s swinging ’63 Pontiac
486-cube 1967 Pontiac GTO
Sometimes your fantasy machine is right around the corner
Matt Grubisa’s Pro Line 481X-powered Firebird
Radial racer Matt Grubisa steps things up with a new USA-built, Pro Line 481X-poweed Firebird
Smokey & The Bandit (1977) – Ripper Car Movies
Plenty of tyre-smoking action and a few Dukes of Hazzard-style jumps as The Bandit and his Trans Am lead the cops on a 1450km wild-goose chase
Home-built Pontiac V8-powered 1931 Ford Tudor – flashback
Want to have fun with your hot rod? Keep it simple!
2400RWHP TURBO LSX-POWERED 2005 PONTIAC GTO
WA’s Rob Salvador wanted to have the quickest LS-powered car in Oz
PONTIAC FIREBIRD MATED WITH TOYOTA PRIUS BUILD
American engineer Bill Manzke is converting his Firebird to a hybrid by mating it with a Toyota Prius
Jeff Jennings’s blown, Trans Am fronted HQ
Flashback: Blown HQ meets Trans Am in Jeff Jennings’s black monster ’73 Premier
U-2 CHASE CAR HISTORY
When it comes to chasing top secret planes, the United States Air Force has a long history of relying on souped-up muscle cars
CHASING U-2 SPYPLANES WITH AUSSIE COMMODORES
The US Air Force uses some Aussie muscle to help its quarter-billion-dollar spy planes take off and land
572-CUBE 1972 PONTIAC FIREBIRD
Veteran street machiner Mark Sullivan rights some wrongs by taking an emissions-constrained ’72 Firebird and giving it the big-cube, high-horsepower donk it always deserved
BARRETT-JACKSON’S SCOTTSDALE AUCTION
Mark Jones’s Aussie-built Pontiac coupe FATGTO mixed with some high-priced collector metal at the recent Barret-Jackson auction in Arizona
DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) – RIPPER CAR MOVIES
Suburban street chases and back-roads drag action are all the better when it’s old-school metal