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...Cincinnati Bengals and San Francisco 49ers yesterday joined the San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League's semi-final playoff round--the last step before Super Bowl XVI, January 24 at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...breakthrough came last month when an off-duty Louisiana state trooper spotted a red Pontiac Trans Am in the town of Lake Charles that matched the description of a car sighted near the scene of a number of the attacks. The owner, John Simonis, 30, was placed under surveillance for five days until authorities were confident that he was the "ski-mask rapist." Once in custody, police said, he confessed involvement in 77 assaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Trek | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...watched Hollywood Stunt Man Alan Gibbs put a car through a midair roll on TV. Why not have Gibbs re-enact the accident on videotape? That was fine with Gibbs, 40, a specialist in motorized mayhem whose credits include racing, spinning and virtually flying Burt Reynolds' Pontiac Trans Am in the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: He Wrecks to Win | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...that was tedious. We never have to start from scratch any more." Adds one of his co-workers happily: "Once you learn how to use the system, it's great." Koltanbar's principal customer seems to think so too. At the GMC Truck & Coach Division plant in Pontiac, Mich., where the company is producing trucks, Koltanbar-designed robots man the assembly line, which itself was laid out by Koltanbar designers peering silently into their screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Productivity Booster | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...Zephyr. Cars in the new line, code-named Topaz, have a four-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive and a sloping hood. They are designed to compete head-on with the Chrysler K-cars, the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant, and the General Motors X-body models: the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the New Fall Cars? | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

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