If GM ever gets their act together and starts turning a solid profit again, I wouldn't doubt that they could bring back the Pontiac line as a 'niche' market as they wanted to keep it in the first place. Pontiac has just gone 'cold' as far as popularity even though they're making some decent cars now(G6, G8), so being gone for a while and then re-emerging as a performance GM division(G6, G8, Trans Am) would be a great way to make them 'hot' again. Maybe, maybe not, but I sure hope so. I owned a '79 Pontiac Trans Am in high school and a '73 Trans Am in college and have always been a big Pontiac fan. A '73 TA road-racer will actually be my next project. Their new G8 GXP is a really sick ride and it seemed like they were heading in a good direction with it. They're just not making any money unfortunately. What a bummer.
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Chris Robinson
1969 Camaro SS/RS, 489 ZL-1 MPFI, T-56 Mag
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