The 1965 Pontiac GTO sits at the heart of the muscle car era, and nothing stirs more debate among enthusiasts than whether ...
Most people who purchased a Pontiac GTO back in 1965 picked the hardtop, with the parent company building over 55,700 units in this body style. Needless to say, the convertibles were much rarer, and ...
The 1965 GTO confirmed what everybody already knew: it was almost an overnight hit, with every unit selling like hotcakes. Pontiac produced over 75,000 GTOs in 1965, up from approximately 32,500 units ...
Montana resident Roger Hinther graduated secondary school at the dawn of the muscle car movement. It was 1964. The Big Three were beefing up their lineups for an all-out assault on the senses of the ...
A remarkable discovery has emerged from two decades of dry storage—a 1965 Pontiac GTO that's not quite what it appears to be. Initially sold as a Le Mans with a modest 326 two-barrel engine, this ...
The Pontiac GTO was conceived early in 1963 by Pontiac’s John DeLorean, Bill Collins, and Russ Gee. The trio wanted to make a factory hot rod by replacing the standard 326 cubic-inch V8 in the ...
In the early 1960s, most of Pontiac‘s advertising hinged on its involvement in competitive motorsports. The only problem was that it wasn’t supposed to be involved in motorsports at all. In 1957, ...
Paint code P for 1965. If you are a true Pontiac aficionado your heart just skipped a beat. That's because you know as well as I do that code P was in fact Iris Mist, a one year only hue for Pontiac ...
Khris is a Mechanical Engineer and a classic car aficionado, who adores his Jags, Alfas, and old-school American muscle cars. He keeps tabs on everything from super exotics like an old EB 110 to the ...
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 ...
Steve Hawkey’s drag-racing car is this 1970 GTO Judge. Its best time in the quarter mile is 10.56 seconds at 130 miles per hour. He’s building a new engine for it and looks to crack the nine-second ...