1964 is a year that should get its own monument carved into a mountain: the Mustang, the Barracuda, the GTO, the 4-4-2, they all came out that year. Not a second too soon, as the previous year had ...
Pontiac's crown jewel of the 1960s is often thought to be the GTO. The reality is that it was working on much meaner machines ...
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 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 ...
Conceived in early 1963 by Pontiac’s John Z. DeLorean, Bill Collins, and Russ Gee, the Pontiac GTO was a factory hot rod born by replacing the standard 326 cubic-inch V8 in the mid-size Pontiac ...
The 1964 Pontiac GTO convertible helped launch the muscle car era. Take a closer look at the style, power, and legacy of this ...
Pontiac developed its first Grand Prix for the 1962 model year. By the time 1964 strolled around, it was Pontiac's third best-selling car. Despite the 1964 model not yielding as much popularity as its ...
Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...
Few prototypes have had so obvious an influence on automotive styling as John DeLorean’s 1964 proposal of an eye-catching Pontiac roadster. The concept foretells both Pontiac Firebird and Chevro-let ...
My father, Tom, was a car guy when he was a teenager, and spent his early years building and racing cars on historic Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Michigan. He owned a '62 Super-Duty 421 Catalina, and ...
We’ll get to the reason why the 1966 Pontiac Banshee got the axe in just a moment. What’s remarkable is that the fate of the Banshee concept—deemed by MotorTrend to be one of the 20 best concept cars ...
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.