The 1964 Pontiac GTO did not just kick off a new trim line, it crystallized the American muscle car formula that would dominate streets and drag strips for the rest of the decade. By pairing a midsize ...

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 ...

Buying a muscle car isn't the best way to remain on the downlow, but this classic Pontiac was built to address that.

Introduced for the 1964 model year, the GTO is arguably the most desirable Pontiac of the 1960s. Often described as the vehicle that kickstarted the muscle car wars, the GTO was initially based on the ...

Some cars don't just define an era—they ignite it. In 1964, Pontiac's GTO package lit a fire that roared across America, turning a mid-size Le Mans into the Tiger that would launch the muscle-car ...

Almost everyone has a story about their first car. Mine, not so great: I inherited the family station wagon, a blue 1968 Pontiac Catalina with a pointed nose out front and a back-facing rear seat.

For Pontiac and Corvette fans, the designation "XP-833" is more than just a series of letters and numbers. XP-833 refers to the legendary 1964 Pontiac Banshee, a prototype whose debut was canceled ...

In the 1980s, Pontiac adopted the tagline "We Build Excitement." By that point, the auto brand had been around for over 50 years and produced a number of cars that certainly lived up to the ...

Ignore the GTO insignia on the grill, says car owner Dave Hoover, of Lima. The car is a 1964 Pontiac Tempest. Last year at Pontiac Nationals, he recorded a time of 9.69 seconds in the quarter mile, ...

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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 ...