Welcome to GTO

    The story is a well known one in the world of the Pontiac Enthusiast. The Muscle Car was born in 1964 when the Pontiac GTO was first developed in late1963 by Pontiac chief engineer John DeLorean and his engineering staff, Russ Gee and Bill Collins. 

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    DeLorean had an idea while experimenting with the new and redesigned 1964 Tempest, originally a four-cylinder economy car, introduced by Pontiac in 1963. The Tempest’s standard 326ci V8 engine option had the same external dimensions as the entire fleet of V8 Pontiac engines. So DeLorean and his team replaced the new 1964 Tempest’s V8 with the larger displacement 389ci V8 from the Pontiac “Big car” line up. With no physical size differences there was nothing that could prevent this (or any) Pontiac engine swap. 

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The GTO was born, enter the Muscle Car era!