Hot Rods & Muscle Cars: How the Pontiac GTO Started the Muscle Car Craze | History
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2024
- When John DeLorean and marketing guru Jim Wangers rolled out the GTO package for Pontiac’s Tempest they started a battle between car manufactures for muscle car domination. #CarWeek
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My great grandpa owned a Pontiac dealership in upstate NY. When he passed, he left me a 64’ Pontiac Tempest Custom. Classic straight 6, 100% original, I’ll love these cars till the day I die
You're dads a boss
You do know the Sprint 6 OHc6 a4 bbl engines are a drop in swap for the pre-65 line sixes, and are a LOT faster.
Little GTO
You're really lookin' fine
Three deuces and a four-speed
And a three-eighty-nine
Listen to her tachin' up now
Listen to her whine
C'mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out, GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Aaah, little GTO
You oughta see her on a road course
Or a quarter mile
This little modified Pon-Pon
Has got plenty of style
She beats the gassers and the rail jobs
Really drives 'em wild
C'mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out, GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Aaah, little GTO
Gonna save all my money
And buy a GTO (turnin' it on blowin' it out)
Get a helmet and a roll bar
And I'll be ready to go (turnin' it on, blowin' it out)
Take it out to Pomona
And let 'em know, yeah yeah (turnin' it on blowin' it out)
That I'm the coolest thing around
Little buddy, gonna shut you down
When I turn it on, wind it up, blow it out, GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Yeah, yeah, little GTO
Aaah, little GTO
John Delorean will go down in history as the greatest automative manufacture of all time.
I had a 73 Buick Skylark as my first car. It was stock when I bought it, but it didn’t stay that way. It was a great car. Super fast between stop lights. But my current Porsche is way better 😀
Gotta love the notion that this was a big engine in a "little" car. They aren't that small. They could have been if they didnt have trunks big enough for like 5 bodies.
Interesting.
*GTO* 😎👍🏻 💜
And what is sad is when these CLASSIC CARS are RUINED by "resto-modding" them. They are no longer '65-'66' or whatever but with new engines, wheels, interiors...etc..etc.. in an old shell!! RUINED!!
There is no internal competition within the auto industry anymore..☹
I suppose you could say that the Goat was the first mass produced muscle car, but there were others before. The Mopar Max wedge came out in 62. Ford had lots of muscle in the early 60's, but of course they were purpose built. Even GM had the 409 in 61. I just don't understand why they say GTO is the first muscle car.
Hear now the Pontiac GTO is a legend no more GTO no more Pontiac gone forever
The FIRST reference and use of the words "MUSCLE CAR"............was the Pontiac GTO. None of those cars were called "muscle cars." Yes they were fast and good cars but not called by that name.
Things didnt end so well for delorean
oh wow i never knew the first ever created of the muscle cars was te GTO am glad it was invented cuz the other muscles cars we see today wuddent exist cuz of him so am glad it happened i just wish the future doesnt end it that soon !
I wish channel motors when I never got rid of Pontiac if they would have just took the base of the Camaro and made a couple of tweaks you can add the Pontiac GTO the Trans Am and a Firebird please where the muscle cars besides Camaro Corvette Mustang is it and I'm not talking about Imports or Exotics true American Muscle
No Dodge, seriously?
I'm more of a chevelle kind of guy. 😎
Short hoods but long trunks lol
That tiger got fed a couple hamsters and those guys made generational income for thier families. . . Tony the tiger wasn't great with that deal
Only 22 grand now I probably slap 100 thousands on something that falls apart and I know they where known for that but not like Ford
Can a muscle car be a hot rod?
Not really. A muscle car was considered a factory built performance car. Hot rods were something people built in their garage out of old bodies and go-fast parts, or more powerful, modern engines in an older car. Just my two cents.
NO.
1st vier, 1st coment,1st liker
The 60s. When young dumb kids were celebrated for what
Much like the 2020's
“Muscle cars” go back to the late 1940’s. The ‘49 Olds rocket 88, ‘51 Hudson Hornet, ‘55 E-code Ford Thunderbird, and ‘57 Chrysler 300-C are all proof of that.
At a car show recently, they awarded a car with a trophy and called it the "Best Muscle Car." It was a 1989 RESTO-MOD Camaro. WTF??
The FIRST reference and use of the words "MUSCLE CAR"............was the Pontiac GTO. None of those cars were called "muscle cars." Yes they were fast and good cars but not called by that name.
The Chrysler 300 was the first American muscle car!!! It was started in 1955 and was the first American car with 300hp thus the name. GM fans are delusional!! In 1964 the Chrysler 300 had 360hp and 470fb of torque. Considerably more than this so called muscle car!! GM fans are ignorant
The 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 was actually the first muscle car, just saying.
@@generalpatton8468 The FIRST reference and use of the words "MUSCLE CAR"............was the Pontiac GTO. Neither the Olds or the Chrysler were called "muscle cars."