The name may have been a little bit tongue-in-cheek, but the vehicle was in dead earnest. Created by two brothers who were frustrated by the state of performance as defined by Pontiac in the late 1970s, the limited-series Macho Trans Am is as collectible today as it is rare.
Brothers Dennis and Kyle Mecham had a simple business plan: They would buy new Trans Ams, make some modifications, and resell the cars through their family’s Pontiac dealership near Phoenix, Arizona. In their first year, 1977, their batch of 26 Macho
