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but we had pretty much forgotten — or had never really known — that one of the ways that era’s Pontiac Grand Prix bathed itself in glory was by serving as the pace car for the Daytona 500.

When John DeLorean helped think up the idea of making a snazzy-looking version of the otherwise stolid full-sized Pontiac in 1962, sales of the new Grand Prix ... 2002-2004 Final 500 Edition ...

A truly historic piece of modern American muscle car history is now up for sale: the 2002 Pontiac Trans Am Collector’s Edition Pace Car, driven by Jay Leno at the Daytona 500 and signed by both ...

Valuable, wrecked and used pieces of stock car racing history are rolling through Greer's Wham Auctions in a matter of weeks as Richard Petty's 1988 Daytona 500 ... 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix that ...

and cars like this 1983 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Daytona 500 25 th Anniversary Limited Edition, up for auction on Hemmings.com, gave hope to those performance dreamers who still believed Detroit ...

"We have a better chance to win the Daytona 500 than we did a year ago," Craven said. "I am convinced of that, and I think that the Tide Pontiac Grand Prix is a big part of the reason why." ...

That first year, 1988, the Grand Prix was all-new, making its debut on the W-body platform. It was also Motor Trend's car of the year. The 1988 Daytona 500 marked the 17th year in a row that a Pontiac ...