Ponatic GTO

What many believe to be the first true muslce car, the Pontiac GTO made its debut in 1964 and continued until 1974. Based on the Tempest for virtually all of its life it was dubbed the “super tempest” and came with a full-sized 389ci Pontiac V8 engine. The car served as Pontiac’s counterpunch to the Ford Mustang that was being developed at the same time. 30 years later the Ponatic GTO returned based on GM Holden’s Monaro and received a moderate reception. Many GTO faithful were disappointed with the bland styling or any visual link to the classic GTO’s of old. The revived car met its end just 3 years later with the 2006 Pontiac GTO.

Pontiac GTO Features

	1970 Pontiac GTO - When Irish Eyes Are Stylin’ The GTO was the number 1 musclecar when I was growing up,” says Kevin Callahan. more


	1969 Pontiac GTO Judge - Appointed For Life When Jim Kowalski bought his ’69 GTO Judge new, he knew it was a keeper but couldn’t imagine it would still be handing down... more


	1968 Pontiac GTO - The GTO That Thinks It’s A GP When the legendary ’64 GTO hit the streets, it was almost exclusively ordered by customers looking for high performance in... more


	1974 Pontiac GTO - Low-Dough GTO When factory high-performance was toughing out the last days of the first musclecar era, more


	1965 Pontiac GTO - Getaway Goat What’s more satisfying than hitting the highway on a warm sunny day in a Pontiac convertible? How about doing the same in one... more


	2005 Pontiac GTO - An Engineer’s Approach Engineers live in a world of limits. Their mission is to achieve a predetermined outcome, working within certain... more


	1969 Pontiac GTO Judge - Ram Air Reunion Cold hard facts and figures rarely tell the story, whether it’s the tale of one’s life or of a car’s journey through time. In... more


	1973 Pontiac GTO - Membership Rewards Relying upon a Pontiac club and its members to help you find and restore the Pontiac you desire can be a rich and rewarding... more


	1966 Pontiac GTO - Don’t Call It A Funny Car It was one of the wildest-looking Pontiac racecars of the mid-’60s, and Arnie “The Farmer” Beswick says you can call his... more


	1967 Pontiac GTO - How To Roll In Tyrol “I always wanted a convertible to tool around in with the family,” says 37-year-old Brian Branham. “So my dad, Boyd, and I... more


	1970 Pontiac GTO - Turning Blue Into Gold Jerry Eckerle is a Pontiac loyalist who was fortunate enough to be of driving age at the zenith of the musclecar era. more


	2006 Pontiac GTO - Deal Or No Deal For many hobbyists, how they ultimately select one car over another at a Pontiac dealership to become its owner is a story... more


	1965 Pontiac GTO - Pontiac Predisposition Is it genetic? Are some of us born with a desire to own and build Pontiacs, or is it learned? Since his parents were never... more


	2006 Pontiac GTO - Boosted Behemoth When it comes to driving a late-model GTO, what true performance enthusiast doesn’t get excited about a rear-wheel-driven,... more


	1967 Pontiac GTO - Second-Chance Goat If you told Ed Burns back in 1997 that his ’67 GTO was going to be so visually stunning that it would receive multiple show... more


	1969 Pontiac GTO Judge - The Black-Robed Judge The ’69 GTO was one Detroit great that did indeed live up to its press release, and the Judge package was the exclamation... more


	2005 Pontiac GTO - Recipe For A Road Rocket Personalizing your Pontiac is one of the core pastimes of this hobby. If it wasn’t for the tinkerer who wanted to try new... more


	1965 Pontiac GTO Convertible - Tri-Power Trick And Treat If it looks, sounds, and accelerates like a Tri-Power, then it must be a Tri-Power, right? Not necessarily, as aircraft... more


	1969 Pontiac GTO - A Guy Walks Into A Meeting… The title sounds like the beginning of the old “a guy walks into a bar…” joke, but the punch line is more intriguing than... more


	2004 Pontiac GTO - Don’t Judge Several years ago, this author heard a quote that really hit home, “There are only two ways to look at the new GTO—you either... more

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Pontiac Car Features

• Bonneville	• G8	• Solstice
• Can Am	• Grand AM	• Star Chief
• Catalina	• Grand Prix	• Sunfire
• Chieftain	• Grandville	• Tempest
• Coupe	• GTO	• Tempest GTO
• Falcon	• Judge	• Town Car
• Fiero	• Lemans	• Trans Am
• Firebird	• Safari	• Ventura
• Firehawk

	1995 Pontiac Sunfire - Judge Junior The inspiration for this Sunfire-to-GTO conversion was a fairly simple one, but the execution was... more
	1967 Pontiac GTO - Law of Attraction The Law of Attraction is the idea that like attracts like. If you have positive thoughts, positive... more
	1968 Pontiac Firebird - In My Words A tale of two Firebirds and their owner’s road to recovery.... more
	March 2012 Pontiac High Performance Wrenching The March 2013 High Performance Pontiac Garage is up!... more
	1970 Pontiac Trans Am vs. 1999 Pontiac Trans Am WS6 - HPP Pavement Pounders Shootout! For this installment, we paired two eras of Pontiac's famous Firebirds.... more
	February 2013 High Performance Pontiac Wrenching This month's Wrenching section has people asking about Pontiac GTO's and coolant.... more
	Pontiac Bonneville Memories - Pontiac Perspective Warm memories and feelings of nostalgia provide passage back to what many of us see as a more... more
	1965 Pontiac GTO vs. 2009 Pontiac G8 GT - HPP Pavement Pounders Shootout! We pitch Calvin Hill's 1965 Pontiac GTO up against Dan Laudenschlager's 2009 Pontiac G8 GT in this... more
	2012 GTOAA International Meet Going with the theme “Wide-Trackin’ A Mile High,” the 33rd Annual GTOAA International Convention,... more
	1964 Pontiac Tempest LeMans - In My Words In 1964, Pontiac’s top-of-the-line mid-size performance car was supposed to be the Tempest LeMans... more

	My first GTO job Chuckles.,. building cars is a lot like peeling onions, with tears in the eyes as it all comes... more
	My first GTO job Hey thanks, Peter :) Glad you stopped by! I noticed it was starting to look more like a car... more
	My first GTO job Starting to look real good Matt. :)... more
	My first GTO job Well guys, this is what Rowsley saw when he came and checked 'er out ... kinda. Mike started... more
	My first GTO job Ron, I'm definitely a believer on that! Sweet when it all works though. Chieftorque, thanks! I'm... more

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