GTO: Pontiac's great one

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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 limelight: 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, th…

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Title Statements

Full title :GTO : Pontiac's great one / Darwin Holmstrom ; photography by David Newhardt.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.
Edition:Rev. & updated

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Motorbooks
Place of Publication:Minneapolis, MN
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (335 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781610609456, 161060945X
oclc:ocn776996274
LC Classification:TL215.G79
Dewey Decimal:629.222/2

We're going racing! -- Delorean's outlaw car -- Coping with success -- A maturing car for a maturing audience -- Highlights and low points -- The short-lived reincarnation of the GTO and the dealth of Pontiac.

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GTO automobile GTO automobile -- History GTO automobile -- Pictorial works History Pictorial works Pontiac GTO (Automobile) -- Histoire Pontiac GTO (Automobile) -- Ouvrages il…