Pontiac didn’t tiptoe into the muscle era; it kicked the door off the hinges with the GTO, then sharpened the blade for 1965. New stacked headlights, crisper lines, the same delinquent heartbeat. The ...

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.

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CAVE CITY, Ky. — In 1965, Joel Tessieri was a recent graduate of the University of California in Los Angeles, driving an older Volkswagen that served him through college, but once he had a job, he ...

The Pontiac GTO wasn’t the first muscle car, but it was the model that pushed the idea into the mainstream. When Pontiac introduced it in 1964 as a package for the Tempest Le Mans, the combination of ...