The GTO wasn’t a car. It was a door kicked open. Pontiac detonated the muscle-car movement by ignoring GM’s “no big engines in mid-sizes” policy and stuffing a 389 into the polite little Tempest.

In the early 1960s, most of Pontiac‘s advertising hinged on its involvement in competitive motorsports. The only problem was that it wasn’t supposed to be involved in motorsports at all. In 1957, ...

The 1965 GTO sits at the center of muscle car mythology, and its engine choice still fuels debate. Collectors weigh the bragging rights of the factory Tri-Power setup against the everyday usability of ...

The 1965 Pontiac GTO Tri-Power did not just add more carburetors to a midsize coupe, it crystallized what you now recognize as a real muscle car. Big displacement, straightforward styling, a ...

Most people who walked into a Pontiac dealership in 1965 ended up ordering a hardtop, with the carmaker producing 55,722 units this year. The convertible was the runner-up but its demand significantly ...

Own this 1965 Pontiac GTO, a two-owner, matching-numbers classic with 81,000 miles (assumed based on context), located in Chesapeake, Virginia. With paperwork since 1965, this 389 4bbl beauty features ...

It's beyond clich to refer to a car build-up as having a snowball effect, but in the case of Josiah Coy's '65 GTO, it's more than appropriate, as the car went from a nice driver with a few simple bolt ...

Let's get the most important thing out of the way first: this is not a numbers-matching GTO, and the trim tag tells you so. The decode confirms the car left Pontiac's Michigan assembly plant in August ...

Orvil Osche is a lucky man. He has owned not one, but three beautiful '65 GTOs. How and where he found his latest, however, led to an adventure. Each of us knows that the perfect Pontiac is out there ...

A remarkable discovery has emerged from two decades of dry storage—a 1965 Pontiac GTO that's not quite what it appears to be. Initially sold as a Le Mans with a modest 326 two-barrel engine, this ...

Three Quad-City men have forged a friendship around a pioneer “muscle car” that first fueled their automotive dreams when they were high school class classmates about 40 years ago. Randy Pribyl, Roger ...