Richard Geiger bought a 4th Gen Firebird, got in a crash with his family, then rebuilt the car with a nitrous kit on the LS1 engine and now it runs 11s while also making a splash at car shows.

On track, Ryan's simple homebuilt Trans Am is a rocket, leaving off the two-step at 5,000 rpm and launching violently to a 1.56 sixty-foot and running out the back in just 10.4-seconds at 133.6 mph.

1986 Pontiac Trans Am - 3rd Gen's A Charm. Rob Spremulli takes the hands-on approach, making his road-find '86 T/A into a slick, Turbocharged, 11-second street sinner and show winner ...

In the November 2008 issue of High Performance Pontiac, we explained how a '79-'81 Bird hood decal sourced from Phoenix Graphix (www.phoenixgraphix.com) could be trimmed to fit on a '98-'02 Trans Am.

True story – when I first saw this Pontiac Trans Am ad on German classifieds site Mobile, I thought I read €3,400 in the asking price, which would have ...