Had it not been for its naval-sized dimensions, the big Pontiac could have easily passed for a muscle car ... GTO moved some 34,000 orders, and the company’s execs carried both monikers into 1965.

and of course Pontiac sparked the “muscle car” segment with the 1964 GTO. The “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” credo helped vault Pontiac to #3 in U.S. new-car sales in 1962, behind Chevrolet and Ford.

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To see the car’s place in racing history, rewind to 1965 when Ford was fast-tracking ... where it lost out to the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that won the 1964 Tour de France. In 2013, Dana Mecum ...

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1970 wasn't an easy year for the muscle car space as a whole, and the GTO couldn't escape the wrath of insurers. The transition to small engines turned the GTO into a sitting duck, so the yearly ...

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In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega ...