Originally designed strictly as the platform for the Camaro, Pontiac engineers were given a short amount of time prior to the Camaro's release to produce a version that matched their corporate styling as well.

In the 1920s Oakland Motor Car engineers designed an all new engine for their " companion " make, the Pontiac, which was introduced in 1926.

The Sunbird model ran for 18 years ( with a lapse during the 1981 & 1982 model years, as the 1982 model was called J2000 ) and was then replaced in 1995 by the Pontiac Sunfire.

It originally ran from Pontiac, Michigan, in the east to Kansas City, Missouri, in the west.

Between Dixie Highway in Pontiac, Michigan and Laskey Road in Toledo, Ohio, the highway is known as Telegraph Road ( see U. S. Route 24 in Michigan ), named before the highway system existed after the telegraph wires it once ran parallel to.

The following year, after running the USHRA races in Anaheim, California, and Pontiac, Michigan, the truck would debut on the TNT Motorsports Monster Truck Challenge points circuit in Memphis, Tennessee, and would find the Bigfoot No. 8 chassis briefly banned from the circuit on April 5, 1990, due to a rule clarification that only allowed leaf, coil, and coilover suspensions to be run ( Bigfoot No. 8 ran nitrogen shocks ).

Jerry Titus ran the Pontiac Team Firebird Trans Am.

The road branched into two at Rouge ( now Redford ); the southern branch roughly followed the modern route of Grand River Avenue and the northern route ran by way of Pontiac along Woodward Avenue and the modern M-21 to the north of the Lansing area.

A feature of engines designed by Brush ( who also designed the first Oakland Motor Car, ancestor of Pontiac and who helped design the original one-cylinder Cadillac engine ) was that they ran counter-clockwise instead of the usual clockwise, which, in those days before the invention of the electric starter, was Brush's idea intended to make them safer for a right-handed person to crank-start by hand.

The line connected with the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction at Richmond, Michigan and ran to Jackson, Michigan through Romeo and Pontiac.

It ran north from Pontiac to Caseville in Michigan ’ s thumb region.

Penske also ran a Pontiac Riley Daytona Prototype in the 2008 Rolex 24 at Daytona, with Kurt Busch, Ryan Briscoe, and Hélio Castroneves driving.

From 1949-59, Meteor typically ran fourth in overall sales, behind Chevrolet, Pontiac and Ford.

From 1930 through 1961, a second iteration of M-58 existed in Oakland County as a western bypass around Pontiac ; the route ran from US 10 at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Square Lake Road south of Pontiac west to Telegraph Road and then north along Telegraph road to US 10 ( Dixie Highway ) north of Pontiac.

He also ran nine Cup races, five in Pollex ’ s # 97 Sterling Cowboy Pontiac Grand Prix, and another four for Diamond Ridge Motorsports, posting a twentieth-place finish at Darlington Raceway,

She also ran in the Canadian federal election, 2000 for the Bloc in the riding of Pontiac — Gatineau — Labelle but lost.

At this point, he ran in the Canadian federal election, 2004 for the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of Pontiac where he won.

He also ran a full Busch schedule with Brewco Motorsports that season, driving the # 27 Kleenex Pontiac to an eighteenth place points finish.

He later ran his first career ARCA RE / MAX Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, finishing third in the # 10 Pontiac owned by Andy Hillenburg.

In 1985, Miller ran his first Busch Series races, driving for LeRoy Throop, driving the # 08 MSW Spyders Pontiac in four events.

One of these Indian trails, the Saginaw Trail followed a path from the Detroit area north to Saginaw ; this trail ran along what is now Dixie Highway from Pontiac northwards.

The same year, the Dixie Highway, an auto trail that ran south from Detroit to Miami, Florida, was extended through Pontiac northward to the Straits of Mackinac.

During the 2003 Pontiac Excitement 400, Harvick ran into the rear of Green's car while Green was attempting to avoid a conflict between Ryan Newman and Ward Burton.

The only race that the team ran in 2008 was the Crown Royal 200 at Watkins Glen International with the next generation # 4 AT & T Pontiac Crawford with Wallace and Andy Lally driving.

For an extended period of time — prewar through the early 1950s — the Pontiac was a quiet, solid car, but not especially powerful.

The remainder of the 1970s and the early 1980s saw the continued rise of luxury, safety and economy as the key selling points in Pontiac products.

In early May 2009, Jim Waldron, a Davison, Michigan, Pontiac dealer, announced that he was interested in purchasing the Pontiac brand and logos, and had found financing to purchase them as well as some soon-to-be shuttered GM plants in order to build cars.

From their inception in the 1950s until the early 1970s, Pontiac engines were known for their performance.

The auto age enveloped Pontiac in the early 1900s.

Through the early 1950s there were trolley ( interurban railroad ) lines in the median strip of Woodward Avenue from downtown Detroit to Pontiac.

The early 1880s saw a second railroad constructed from the Pontiac area, through Oxford to Port Austin.

According to the historian John Sugden, Pontiac " was neither the originator nor the strategist of the rebellion, but he kindled it by daring to act, and his early successes, ambition, and determination won him a temporary prominence not enjoyed by any of the other Indian leaders.

They were followed in the early 1930s by Nash ( with a dual-ignition unit ), REO and the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac divisions of General Motors.

For 1987 Wallace gained sponsorship from Kodiak, establishing the # 27 Kodiak Pontiac livery his early career is most remembered for.

An early name for the war was the " Kiyasuta and Pontiac War ", " Kiyasuta " being an alternate spelling for Guyasuta, an influential Seneca / Mingo leader.

Other sporty bucket-seat compact cars that appeared during the early 1960s included the Mercury Comet S-22, Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass, Buick Special Skylark, and Pontiac Tempest LeMans.

Some technical developments of the early sporty compact cars offered in the U. S. ( 1961 – 63 ) included a turbocharged six-cylinder in the rear-engine Corvair Monza Spyder / Corsa ( 1962 – 66 ), turbocharged aluminum V8 on the 1962 – 63 Oldsmobile Cutlass Jetfire and a standard four-cylinder engine mated to a rear transaxle on the 1961 – 63 Pontiac Tempest LeMans in several states of tune, including a four-barrel high-performance option, as well as ( in 1963 ) a large ( for a compact car ) V8 that was optional with up to.

Origins of General Motors ' badge engineering dates back to the early 1970s when the Chevrolet Nova compact was rebadged by the upscale Buick Apollo ( Skylark after 1975 ), Oldsmobile ( Omega ), and Pontiac ( Ventura II and Phoenix ) divisions as entry-level cars.

The series was best known for competition among American V8 sedans such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, Plymouth Barracuda, Mercury Cougar, AMC Javelin, Pontiac Firebird, and Dodge Challenger in the 1960s and early 1970s.

* The " Airhawk " is designed as an early 1970s F-Body ( Pontiac Firebird or Chevrolet Camaro ) car.

The G-engine gave better performance than its competitors at its 1960 introduction, and generally kept up through the ' 60s and early ' 70s, though engines like the Pontiac OHC Six bested the performance of most versions of the slant-6, and after an early factory racing program was discontinued by 1962, the slant-6 did not receive much performance development ; most slant-6s were equipped with a single 1-barrel carburetor.

Chevrolet and Pontiac divisions worked separately on small cars in the early and mid 1960s.

The new SOHC I6as well as the early Tempest with the transaxle in the rear was the brainchild of Pontiac Chief Engineer John De Lorean ( who became Pontiac's general manager at the end of the 1965 model year, was available in an economical one-barrel carbureted, 165 hp version that was standard equipment on all Pontiac intermediates except GTOs.

The X-body Omega, like its sister vehicles ( the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix and Buick Skylark, proved fairly trouble-prone early on, necessitating an astounding number of government-mandated recalls for braking problems, fluid leaks and suspension issues, just to name a few.

Although the cruise officially takes place on only one day, each year the celebration starts early in the summer with these classic vehicles brought out onto the streets in preparation, and ancillary events are scheduled in the sponsoring communities of Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak, Huntington Woods, Berkley, Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills, and Pontiac.