The big-block muscle car had all but gone extinct by the mid-1970s, a victim of two energy crises that sent fuel prices soaring. Stricter emissions standards and newly-effective CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards meant that Pontiac’s 455-cubic-inch (7.5-liter) Firebird Trans Am was long dead, and 1979 would be the last year for Pontiac’s next-biggest...
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