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 ...

The GTO wasn't just a car. It was a "device," and Pontiac praised it on every occasion ever since announcing it in October 1963. The GM brand said the GTO was created to "shrink time and distance," ...

T he 1964 Pontiac GTO started it all. While some credit other models for introducing the concept of a muscle car, the "Goat" ...

What’s 1964 best remembered for in Detroit? Incidentally, all three from the Big Triad were up to something for that model year. ChryCo put out the second generation of the hemispherical-heads V8, the ...

In 1964, a legend was born when Pontiac dropped one of the 389 cubic-inch V8s from its full-size lineup into a lighter, mid-sized Pontiac Tempest. Its birth kicked off a tire-smoking, youth-driven ...

Even though it's one of the most popular muscle cars in the world, we bet you didn't know all of these things about the famous Pontiac.

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 ...