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I was in college when Pontiac brought back the GTO. All I knew about the GTO was that it was one of the old muscle cars. Beyond that, I didn?t have a frame of reference for ?The Great One.? Still, I loved this new version so much, I would scope out Pontiac lots in Omaha near where I went to school. At the time, Need for Speed: Underground 2 was a popular video game my brother and I often played.
I would always pick the modernized GTO.
In 2009, when I entered the car business officially, I fell in love with another Pontiac: the G8 GXP.
20 Minutes of Fame
Well before my college days, dealership years, and lazy Saturdays on the Playstation with my brother, the Pontiac GTO was carving its name into history. The muscle car era in the United States is well documented, but it began rather unassumingly. Pontiac Chief Engineer John Z. DeLorean, with Bill Collins and Russ Gee, bolted a 389 ci V8 onto a Tempest chassis prototype for the GTO. It took them 20 minutes. The muscle car era was born. The rest is history.
With 510 pound-feet of torque, Buick?s Stage I 455 produced more torque than any other car during the classic muscle-car era. Photo: GM Media Archives.
#1 Crush
From that day forward in 1963, the Pontiac GTO was known as the first muscle car. Not only was it fast, powerful, and bold, but it was affordable ? and the Baby Boomer generation ate it up. Pontiac GTO 50 Years: The Original Muscle Car captures the GTO?s evo...