A truly historic piece of modern American muscle car history is now up for sale: the 2002 Pontiac Trans Am Collector’s Edition Pace Car, driven by Jay Leno at the Daytona 500 and signed by both ...

The third-gen Trans Am had been selected to pace the Daytona 500 for 1982, and for 1983 the car got the nod again. The ’82 Pace Cars were red with black trim and the “bowling ball” wheel and ...

Nevertheless, the most impressive Trans Am of the 1980s was yet to come. In 1989, the nameplate reached the 20-year milestone, and to celebrate the occasion, Pontiac was granted pace car duties ...

For its Indy 500 pace car, Pontiac fitted its Firebird Trans Am with a Buick turbo V-6. The result was the quickest production car in the U.S. in its day. This example has low mileage, recent ...

After hours of talking to the right people, pushing the right buttons, and all-around arm twisting, I delivered Carter Chaplin and his 20th Anniversary Indy Pace Car Turbo Trans Am from the inner ...