This 1964 Pontiac GTO is an award-winning restored specimen; the car needs nothing but someone willing to pay a fortune to ...

Most people who walked into a Pontiac dealership in 1964 to order the GTO package ended up getting the hardtop. It was the top choice, with 18,422 units of the 32,450 GTOs sold this year, followed by ...

The 1964 Pontiac GTO did not arrive as a grand corporate moonshot. It slipped into showrooms as a clever option package on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the title of 'first muscle car' is certainly contentious, one of the models often cited as a frontrunner is the Pontiac ...

Driving a hot rod hard means that sometimes it breaks. Drive it too hard and the damage can be severe, at which point some hot rodders find themselves at a crossroads. Is it best to piece the car back ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Few model names evoke the muscle-car era of the 1960s and early 1970s like the GTO. Introduced as a 1964 offshoot of the Tempest, Pontiac’s original GTO quickly captured the attention of youthful ...