When that stage [racing] was abolished, we needed to keep our cars in the performance limelight.” GM initially imposed a 5,000-unit sales limit on the GTO and Pontiac obliged by removing the new ...

In late 1963, Pontiac’s mid-size LeMans received a special high-performance package, the Gran Turismo Omologato (GTO, in short). The youthful, muscle-bound machine caught on, and in 1966 ...