1989 20th Anniversary Turbo Trans Am Magazines
Motor Trend
January 1989 - 1989 Turbo Trans Am announced as Official Pace Car of the 1989 Indy 500
March 1989 - Full 6-page review of the TTA
June 1989 -Fastest American Cars, the TTA is radared at 162 mph finishing 2nd behind the ZR1. No real article, just basic power ratings of cars and radar and speedometer speeds.
November 1990 -
Road and Track
January 1989 -
Special Series Supercars August 15,1989 -
Turbo & High Tech Performance
May 1989 - One of the best technical TTA articles that have been written. Features a lot of great mechanical details and testing
10th Anniversary Issue (1995) -
July 1996 -
Muscle Car Review
October 1988 - Mention of 1989 Turbo Trans Am being produced for the following model year, when talking about 1989 Pontiac lineup
July 1989 -
September 1989 -
February 1990 -
Autoweek
May 1, 1989 - A short 2-page introduction to the TTA
May 15, 1989 -
Car and Driver
October 1988 -
June 1989 -
High Performance Pontiac
December 1988 - An large picture introduction to the 89 TTA featuring the car on the cover.
December 1989 - An editorial about a wife who demanded having an 89 TTA. Also features the famous 1989 TTA vs 1965 Tripower GTO compeition
October 1991 - A small article about the 20th Anniversary Trans Am in an article about each of the anniversary Trans Ams.
June 1996 -
June 1999 - A review of the Anniversary Trans Ams for the feature of the 30th Anniversary release.
October 2005 - Ken Burge's TTA with a few mods at the track performance.
October 2006 - A nice 6-page feature of Carter Chaplin's TTA at the Daytona Speedway, lots of good information in the article.
Car Craft
December 1988 - A 3 page technical introduction to the TTA, it has yet to be announced as the Indy 500 Pace Car.
January 1989 - small paragraph announcement of TTA being the Indy 500 Pace Car for 1989.
August 1996 -
Hot Rod
May 1988 - Small news brief about rumors of a Turbo V6 Trans Am to be released in 1989
October 1988 - One paragraph mentioning the TTA being part of the 1989 Pontiac line-up
November 1988 - Feature review of the 1989 Turbo Trans Am
January 1991 - Entrant in the Silver State Classic drove a 1989 TTA, picture with small caption about his problems
Popular Hotrodding
March 1989 -
Corvette Fever
October 1989 -
GM High Tech Performance
December 1995 -
July 1996 -
December 2005 - A 3 page feature on Marv Spomer's hardtop cloth interior TTA. Also a competition with 13 of GMs fastest production cars including Steven Ciregna's TTA which finished in 8th in the competition with second through seventh within only half a second of him.
American Car World
January 2006 - A feature on Jan Larsson's TTA #1078.
Pontiac Enthusiast
September/October 2002 - This magazine features the 10 fastest Trans Ams with the TTA coming in 9th. It also features a small article on each anniversary Trans Am featuring Gene Scheer's TTA #1444.
Hemmings Muscle Machines
March 2005 - A comparison between 1969, 1979, 1989, and 1999 Anniversary Trans Ams.
February 2006 - A comparison of a TTA, Ford Thunderbird SuperCoupe, and a Buick GNX featuring Jim Chaudrue's TTA #396.
Popular Mechanics
October 1988 -
January 1989 -
The Exciting World of Pontiacs
No Date - A reprint of the High Performance Pontiac December 1989 TTA vs 1965 GTO article
Muscle Cars
November 1989 - The famous 1989 TTA vs 1965 Tri-power GTO competition article
Collectible Automobile
April 1989 -
Bilsport 4
February 9-22, 2006 - Swedish
Street Machine
November 2002 - A small 2-page feature on Andy Kay's TTA in the UK.
Pontiac Driving Excitement
Spring 1999 - A small mention of the TTA in a quick history of the Trans Am to focus on the announcement of the 30th Anniversary TA