Pontiac Firebird: The Auto-Biography

What started out as another contender in the "me too" Mustang pony car race ended up becoming so much more Only Pontiac could have come up with a coupe like the Firebird, and it was the Firebird that kept the performance fires burning once the mighty GTO was gone The Firebird has garnered a reputation for being larger than life and many have come to view it as a large car, but that was not always the case Pontiac's Firebird was originally a small US car, classified as a sport compact In the days when people used the terms personal car and specialty car the Firebird wasn't even all that big