Pontiac’s first muscle car helped launch the GTO legend and reshape American performance history.

While the Pontiac GTO kicked off the muscle car craze when it was introduced in 1964, these five models brought together a powerful V8 and a conventional mass-produced chassis several years erlier.

Classic 1969 Pontiac GTO features 400 V8 power, hideaway headlights and period muscle car styling with modern stance upgrades ...

(iSeeCars) – Muscle cars are as American as baseball and apple pie. Over the last 60 years several Asian and European automakers have co-opted the classic muscle car recipe – a large V8 engine stuffed ...