Hemmings Daily: If KITT had a family: Pontiac tried to resurrect a 15-year-old concept with its Trans Am Kammback

These days, photochoppers don't waste much time in slapping together station wagon or shooting brake versions of every new car after the first official images of that car hit the Internet. Spiritually, those photochoppers have plenty in common with Pontiac staffers who, throughout the Seventies and Eighties, slapped together multiple wagon versions of the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, one of which will go to auction early next year. In fact, the Camaro/Firebird twins, though only ever available as coupes and convert [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Monday, November 5, 2018 [If KITT had a family: Pontiac tried to resurrect a 15-year-old concept with its Trans Am Kammback]( [If KITT had a family: Pontiac tried to resurrect a 15-year-old concept with its Trans Am Kammback]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - These days, photochoppers don't waste much time in slapping together station wagon or shooting brake versions of every new car after the first official images of that car hit the Internet. Spiritually, those photochoppers have plenty in common with Pontiac staffers who, throughout the Seventies and Eighties, slapped together multiple wagon versions of the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, one of which will go to auction early next year. In fact, the Camaro/Firebird twins, though only ever available as coupes and convert... 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To highlight its latest crate engine offering, the 1,000-hp Hellephant supercharged HEMI V-8, FCA could have dropped it into a current Challenger or Charger and called it done. Instead, the automaker opted to retromod an iconic muscle car from its past, the 1968 Charger, creating the Super Charger concept. While the Super Charger will remain a one-off, the Hellephant crate engine and accessories will be available to builders early next ...[Read More]( [Sponsor]( [Open Diff - what would make the best bank robbery getaway car?]( [Open Diff - what would make the best bank robbery getaway car?]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - You've just robbed a bank. Presuming nobody died in the process and the bank is fully insured, congratulations. The obvious question -- what car you're gonna buy with all that money --- is also rather pointless if you don't first figure out which car you're gonna use to make a clean getaway and leave the cops and FBI in the dust. 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