There's no denying the 1964 Pontiac GTO's place in automobile history, but what attributes made this muscle car arguably the ...

The 1964 GTO did more than launch a new trim line, it ignited Detroit’s muscle car era and reshaped American performance culture. Collectors now chase those first-year cars for their blend of raw ...

The Pontiac GTO was the prototypical muscle car. The iconic three-letter initialism today is more associated with Pontiac than the racing category it usurped. Back in the 1960s, the GM division's ...

Every story has its beginning. While it's true that hot cars have been around since before World War II, there was never an affordable, packaged performance vehicle before the '64 GTO. FFast cars were ...

Nelson Ireson August 10, 2011 Comment Now! The 700-horsepower Raybestos GTO-R, based on a 1964 GTO, the original muscle car, is finally complete, with the team at Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle finishing the ...

Don Stellhorn, a 37-year-old technical sales representative with Street Legal Performance (SLP) in Toms River, New Jersey, says he has been a Pontiac fan since birth, literally. His father, Don Sr., ...

The GTO arrived in the most car-dense year of the sixties – and possibly of Detroit’s entire history: 1964. Mustang, Chevelle, Barracuda, 426 Hemi (Race engine) – there was a lot going on in Motor ...

These five high-performance models were developed in different eras and are dissimilar in more ways than one, yet they share the GTO acronym. GTO. Three letters that have become iconic among several ...