Out of 32,000-odd examples built in the first year, only a few hundred LeMans ragtops came with the GTO package, triple ...

The GTO adventure started in October 1963, with the first model based on the Tempest Le Mans and promising performance upgrades supposed to provide more adrenaline behind the wheel. Customers who ...

Many muscle-car aficionados agree the beginning of the muscle-car movement can be traced back to the 1964 Pontiac GTO. For clarity’s sake, a muscle car is typically defined as a mid-size American ...

This is a story of a 1964 Pontiac GTO. In 1965 I was in my senior year at Gaithersburg High School. That year I owned a 1964 Pontiac GTO 389 cubic inch automatic convertible. I took my future wife ...

The GTO was offered in three body styles from 1964 to 1967: a pillarless hardtop, a two-door sedan, and a convertible. The ...

Tim Drain of Coal Valley, Illinois, is no stranger to performance Pontiacs. A retired journeymen painter for his local union, the now 66-year-old tells HPP, "I was always interested in Pontiacs. My ...

Concours-based restos are, of course, all well and good: if everyone were into going sideways in a rare, near-40-year-old musclecar, there would soon be neither old Ponchos nor hobbyists to drive them ...

Of all the muscle cars ever built, the 1964 Pontiac GTO ranks at or near the top of this popular class. The GTO is also acknowledged as the car that started the mid-size muscle craze, coming to market ...

Today’s Totally Hot Car is a 1964 Pontiac GTO owned by Mike Kline of Fullerton. “As you know,” Mike writes, “the ’64 GTO was the car that launched the ‘muscle car era.’ ” And heaven knows that was one ...

Credited as the first Musclecar, ever, it's no wonder the GTO had to break all the rules The origin of the GTO, the factory hot rod that became an icon for the Musclecar era, is really a story of one ...

In the early 1960s, GM leadership got serious about abstaining from involvement in competitive motorsports. GM, along with the other American auto makers, had signed an agreement in 1957 promising to ...