The GTO launched in 1964 and was an instant hit. Based on the Tempest Le Mans, the GTO could be had as a $295 package that included a 389 four-barrel engine with 325 horsepower, hood scoops, dual ...

Introduced for the 1964 model year, the GTO is arguably the most desirable Pontiac of the 1960s. Often described as the vehicle that kickstarted the muscle car wars, the GTO was initially based on 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 ...

Before the release of the 1964 Pontiac Tempest, John Z. DeLorean gathered a group of engineers at General Motors' Milford Proving Ground. They were testing a Tempest that had been stuffed full of the ...

The American muscle car era began in the mid-1960s and lasted until the oil crisis and new emissions and fuel economy standards sent car buyers flocking to smaller models in the early to mid '70s.

I first laid eyes on Mike Boyd's 1964 Pontiac at a car show held at Bloomington's Baxter BioPharma Solutions. It was hard to see past Boyd's fire-engine-red GTO. The employee event was in memory of ...

For Doug, the affection for Pontiac's first musclecar came in 1963 when, at the tender age of 20, he worked at a Pontiac dealership. "I was shopping for my first new car," he recalls, "I liked the '63 ...

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 ...