In 1968, Mark Donohue and Roger Penske won a championship in the middle of the golden age of Trans-Am racing with a very special Chevrolet Camaro. That car was the "Lightweight" Z/28 — a car ...

During the late 1970s, Pontiac teamed up with Italian design powerhouse Pininfarina to create a couple of fully-functional ...

Trans Am Depot ... cabin about this car's Hollywood inspiration, too. Bandit decals can be found on the front headrests and center console lid, there are chicken wings on the Camaro-spec plastic ...

but there was a time when a Camaro Z28, a Mustang Boss 302, an AAR Cuda, a Challenger T/A, or a Firebird Trans Am were just old cars with bad gasoline-gorging habits and didn’t sell for big bucks.

The No. 11 car will be driven by Trans Am legend Tommy Kendall ... out of six races in the Chevy Camaro so far this season, losing out only once to American racing scion Adam Andretti.

The GT350R’s package will be built in partnership with Turn Key Automotive/Motorsports, which contributed to Chevrolet’s legendary COPO Camaro and specializes in building Trans Am race cars.

but the fifth- and sixth-generation Camaro-based COPOs are designed for track use only. A few enterprising gearheads have managed to get these modern race cars licensed for street use, though.

The fourth-generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is a car with a lot of variety on the used market. You can probably find affordable ones with high mileage in local used car listings, but there are ...