General Motors launched the Pontiac brand in 1926, naming its new division after the Ottawa chief and Detroit suburb where many of GM's facilities are located. Pontiac was a force to be reckoned ...

Hood ornaments have mostly gone the way of the dodo bird. Part and parcel of a bygone age, they jutted proudly off an automobile's front and cut through the air like the carved figureheads on the ...

Ottawa Chief Pontiac convinced many tribes they needed to strike first. Some did so willingly, others were forced to fight. Their ultimate target was Fort Pitt. The combatants on both sides ...