Coverstory • 1977 Pontiac Phantom. 1977 Pontiac Phantom: Remembering Bill Mitchell's Final Masterpiece. Published: 31 May 2024, 12:03 UTC • By: Vlad Radu. 7 photos. Photo: General Motors LLC.

Produced for a short period in 1977, the Pontiac Can Am is one of the forgotten gems of the Malaise Era.It's unclear how many of the 1,000+ examples built are still around, but these Ponchos are ...

Full-size Pontiac sales rose in 1977 and actually went up again in 1979. Buyers liked them. They weren’t, however, anything like the much-venerated late-1960s Pontiacs, ...

Planning for retirement, Bill Mitchell started his last project to make the Pontiac Phantom, ... The spirit of Studio X lived on after Mitchell's retirement in 1977 and death 11 years later.

The 1977 Pontiac Trans Am became legendary after its appearance in "Smokey and the Bandit," and there are some other things you may not know about it.

After the 455 engine was dropped for the 1977 model year, the most muscular Firebird offering was the 200-horsepower, Pontiac W72 400 cubic-inch V8 in the Trans Am.

When you think of ’70s muscle cars and outlaw cool, it’s hard not to picture the black and gold 1977 Pontiac Trans Am SE tearing down the highway with a cowboy hat behind the wheel. Thanks to ...

Pontiac executives decided that their best option was to go double or nothing and graft the 1977 nose onto this 1976 model. Pontiac sent a 1977 hood, bumper, headlights, ...

This 1977 Pontiac Trans Am SE has 14 miles on its odometer. (Mecum Auctions) It features a monstrous 6.6-liter V8 that put out a meek 180 hp, thanks to 1970s emissions rules, and a three-speed ...

Someone Just Paid $495k For Burt Reynolds’ 1977 Pontiac Trans Am The images and listing also confirm that this Y82 is fitted with the three-speed automatic transmission, rather than the ...

From the April 1977 issue of Car and Driver. Those cars were the F-bodied sisters from Pontiac and Chevrolet, the Firebird and Camaro, which remained in the marketplace as rather wispy reminders ...