Pontiac's GTO is considered by many to be America's first true "Muscle Car." Yet, when it originally dropped in October 1963 for the 1964 model year, it did so as a $300 option package for Pontiac's ...

When the GTO option was released as the performance package of the 1964 Pontiac LeMans, it opened the floodgates for an entirely new segment of motoring – the muscle car. Promoted to model status in ...

Parading through the late-Sixties, Motown's entire troupe of musclecar performers could have been viewed as a circus sideshow. With animal acts, flyers, swimmers, stormers, and clowns, Detroit ...

For a brief but thorough history of how the GTO high powered Judge came into existence check out this piece by Dan Jedlicka. For instance, I didn’t know the Judge got its name because Pontiac head ...

Jody Only is an author and photographer. Within the last five years in the auto industry, she has had bylines with TopSpeed, HotCars, LSXmag, Engine Labs, Chevy HardCore, and Street Muscle. She is a ...

Bedazzled has a classic old Pontiac GTO commercial – a music video, really – featuring Paul Revere and The Raiders, in full revolutionary war regalia. Bedazzled has a classic old Pontiac GTO ...

The 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 outperformed the Pontiac GTO Judge with 13.43-second quarter-mile vs 14.7 seconds, making it GM's fastest muscle car.

The 1966 Pontiac GTO sits at a rare intersection of volume production, serious performance, and enduring collector demand. Enthusiasts treat it as a benchmark for the muscle car era, and current ...

In this spirit, the GM Design Center has embarked on a new project that will be sure to ignite interest in its own history-it's in the beginning stages of producing a retrospective book in-house. The ...

Introduced for the 1964 model year as a performance package on the Le Mans, the Pontiac GTO became a separate model in 1966. That year, Pontiac sold nearly 100,000 GTOs. Looking to improve sales in a ...

The Pontiac GTO debuted for the 1964 model year, born from Pontiac’s need to attract the youth market. Pontiac had long tied its marketing to racing involvement, but a horrific crash at the 24 Hours ...