General Motors introduced the Grand Am for the 1973 model year as a luxury headliner for their Pontiac brand to compete with fancified cars from Mercedes-Benz and others. The Grand Am offered serious performance credentials with either a 400 or 455 cubic inch V8, but it had more luxury features compared to a GTO or […]
I found out an interesting fact by featuring those 12 terrible economy cars from the other week. First is that you folks are a bunch of weirdos who actually love these derelict piles of parts, but the more importantly I got some keen insight to the current state of used car market dynamics. Any car […]
This next car comes from tipper Watch Carefully who writes: Today I discovered this: It’s a bit of a resto-mod, but true to the original 454 model with NACA ducts, etc. My dad had the 4-door from 1973, bought new when I was a kid, and I always thought it was among the best looking muscle cars […]
People ask me to explain Daily Turismo to them on a quasi-frequent basis — usually people I meet at bus terminals, soup kitchens, Dungeons and Dragons conventions, or group therapy — and I often struggle to explain what the site means…but somehow, some guy managed to build the answer to that question…because there is nothing […]
The 2nd generation Pontiac Grand Am was a G-body GM offering that frankly most people have forgotten or would prefer to forget. Its wasn’t just that 1978 was the depths of low compression engines and poor engineering solutions to emissions problems (huge smog/air pumps, electronic carbs…etc), but the Grand Am was just so forgettable compared […]