cars in the 80s

The Pontiac Trans Am was Pontiac’s performance flagship from 1969 to 2002, but its 80s identity was forged by three things: Burt Reynolds driving a black-and-gold 1977 model in Smokey and the Bandit, a 1980 turbocharged V8 that became America’s first turbo muscle car, and a radically reshaped third-generation body that carried the nameplate through…