num_pages: 336
description:  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 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 nations 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. 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. See Motorbooks author David Newhardt interviewed by Jay Leno on 
language: English
title: GTO: Pontiac's Great One
publisher: Motorbooks