In 1963 Pontiac's Chief Engineer John DeLorean and his two favorite staff engineers, Bill Collins and Russ Gee, came up with an inspired way to keep Pontiac cars in the performance limelight: bolt a big engine into Pontiac's upcoming Tempest intermediate body. Thus was the GTO born. Through cunning, resourcefulness, and outright trickery the minds of Pontiac managed to get this rocket into dealerships and out onto America's highways, and to introduce that most iconic of American automobiles, the muscle car, to the nation’s most discriminating drivers. This is the story of the GTO, of the people who made it a reality and a sales sensation, of those who owned and loved the cars. And it is, above all, a story of the cars themselves, from the initial option package offered for the 1964 model year through the high-performance late-model standouts. With color photographs, drawings, and detailed stats, this book is not so much the story of a historic car as an illustrated biography of American muscle.
GTO: Pontiac's Great One
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Author: Holmstrom, Darwin
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780785835943
Details:
Author: Holmstrom, Darwin
Brand: Crestline Books
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 336
Release Date: 08-01-2019
Part Number: 9780785835943
Package Dimensions: 12.2 x 10.9 x 1.1 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780785835943
