Pontiac joined the battle in the pony market with the Firebird, but fighting against the Camaro and the Mustang looked impossible at first. The GM brand sold only 82,560 Firebirds in 1967, while the ...

General Motors sent two very different messages when it launched the 1967 Pontiac Firebird and the first-year Chevrolet Camaro. Both cars chased the same pony-car buyers, yet each model carved out its ...

The Pontiac Firebird commands a unique position in the great pantheon of American muscle and pony cars, not merely as a stablemate to the perennial Chevrolet Camaro, but as a statement of ...

The 1967 Pontiac Firebird represents the first year of Pontiac's version of a "pony car," created to compete with and take sales from the amazingly successful Ford Mustang. Even though it was a sister ...

Pontiac is credited with turning the key on the muscle car era with the legendary 1964 GTO, and by the time the GTO's first generation ended in 1967, the Ford Mustang was three years old and had sold ...

When John Leland, a research engineer from Kettering, Ohio, bought his '67 Firebird 400 convertible in 1980, he didn't know it was one of the first 100 F-body Pontiacs ever built, nor did he know that ...

The first Pontiac Firebird arrived for the 1967 model year as General Motors’ late but carefully calculated entry into the booming pony car class. Where the Ford Mustang had defined the segment, the ...

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The story of how cars come into our lives is often as interesting as the cars themselves. For Josh Helm, this 1967 Pontiac Firebird spent a lot of time in his family before it became his. Helm's ...