Introduced for the 1964 model year, the Pontiac GTO is credited for kickstarting the muscle car craze. That's not necessarily true, but it's one of the reasons why the first-gen GTO is the ultimate ...

Despite the name’s origins, Pontiac would never allow the GTO to touch a race track in company colors. GM top brass imposed a company-wide ban on factory racing in 1963. Executives feared that ...