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How Pontiac's first compact ended up with half a V8 up front, a transaxle in back, and 'rope drive' in between
The most famous Pontiac John DeLorean might have been associated with was hardly a groundbreaking engineering feat. Putting a ...
John DeLorean, who died Saturday at age 80, was the car design prodigy from General Motors who developed the Pontiac GTO and revived the fortunes of Chevrolet before setting off to found his own firm ...
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How Pontiac pioneered the concept of the affordable muscle car
There were fast rides before the GTO, but Pontiac made performance affordable, bringing muscle cars to the masses.
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 ...
Hot rodders owe a debt of gratitude to Pontiac, GM’s step-up brand from entry-level Chevrolet, for creating the muscle car segment pretty much from whole cloth in 1964. For his role in creating the ...
The Pontiac GTO was the direct result of John Z. DeLorean trying to find a way to attract the youth market after GM brass forbid all the divisions from participating in competitive motorsports. GM had ...
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 ...
There aren't many car models as celebrated as the Pontiac GTO. It was unleashed on the public in 1964 after then-Pontiac division chief John Delorean figured out a way to shoehorn a 389 cubic inch V8 ...
Many muscle-car aficionados agree the beginning of the muscle-car movement can be traced back to the 1964 Pontiac GTO. For clarity’s sake, a muscle car is typically defined as a mid-size American ...
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