Pontiac’s chief engineer ... As a note of interest, some of the better engine builders are removing the tin plating by means of “glass beading.” Current ring combinations are standard ...

Pontiac Trans Am that likely spent decades in the same place is just a relic of what was once a fantastic muscle car ...

has become a widely acknowledged historian of the ultra-performance Pontiac engine. “I didn’t design it or build it, but I knew the people who did and was there in the shadows later,” he says.

After developing the 287, Pontiac engineers developed the engine to 370 cubic inches, giving this new engine the name Tempest 395-A. Equipped in the 1958 Chieftain, the Tempest 395-A could deliver ...