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Some of our more forbearing readers will recall that our July 1966 issue carried the first install­ment of the great ...
Did you know that the Pontiac Firebird had an overhead cam engine? No, the Lotus designed LT5 with those exotic dual overhead cams from the Corvette ZR-1 never nestled under the screaming chicken ...
When Steve Kelly wrote his deep-dive on Pontiac's new experimental dual-overhead-cam Hemi V-8 for the October 1970 issue of HOT ROD magazine (actually two engines!), performance was a moving target.
John Z. DeLorean, then a rising star at GM's Pontiac Division, calculated that a six-banger with an overhead-cam rig could ...
Despite the "racy" association that usually goes along with overhead camshafts and three valves per cylinder, Pontiac's exercises have been and continue to be aimed at the regular production ...
But Pontiac was so confident of its industry-first timing belt overhead camshaft inline-six that it claimed the belt would outlast everything else in the car, save for the driver (read the ad in ...
But, unlike the more common overhead valve (OHV) arrangements at the time, Pontiac used the overhead cam (OHC)design. The engine was available in two versions: a base version with a one-barrel ...
A rotisserie-restored 1969 Pontiac Firebird featuring the rare 4.1-liter overhead cam inline-six engine and a 4-speed manual transmission will be offered at the upcoming Vicari Auction during the ...
Credit him, too, for the Pontiac overhead-cam six, the 1969 Grand Prix, and The Judge, a low-volume GTO named after a routine on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." "He kept Pontiac on the marketing edge ...
John Z. DeLorean, then a rising star at GM's Pontiac Division, calculated that a six-banger with an overhead-cam rig could make V8 power while reducing weight and making Pontiacs handle more like ...