Pontiac GTO History

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The Pontiac GTO is considered the first true muscle car. Pontiac saw the potential for dropping a big block engine into an intermediate frame and selling it at a budget price, so that people could afford it. The GTO sold in great numbers and would start to fuel the competition between other major vehicle producers. The GTO option was available on three LeMans bodies (We Love Pontiac). There were two kinds of carburetors used, a four barrel and the trio power (We Love Pontiac).

The four barrel offers a four port set up that feeds the gas more smoothly to the intake, unlike the four barrel the trio power consists of three, two barrel, carburetors that cause an uneven flow to the intake. Both carburetors add their disadvantages thought, both devoured a lot of petroleum. The four barrel outsold the trio power three to one (We Love Pontiac). The GTO is known as “The Legend” and “The Great One” (We Love Pontiac). Over half a million GTO’s were produced in the eleven-year run over the market (We Love Pontiac).

Overall, four Ram Air options were produced for the GTO (We Love Pontiac). A ram air intake is any intake design which uses the dynamic air pressure created by vehicle motion to increase the static air pressure inside of the intake. The difference in ram air one from the higher model ram airs is lower compression. The higher the ram air stage is the higher the compression ratio is increased. The basis for ten of the eleven years of GTO’s was General Motors “A-Body” platform upon which mid-size cars for every General Motors marketing division except Cadillac were built (Edmunds).

The start of the classic “muscle car” era is often dated as the moment the first 1964 Pontiac GTO rolled off the assembly line (Edmunds). Throughout ...

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...icant body roll and slow and numb steering. Best to keep the car pointed straight and let the V8 work its magic, which, naturally, has been the point of the GTO since the beginning (Edmunds). Not up for debate was the sales success of the Pontiac GTO. The GTO has served many and set a lot of standards for the way that we make vehicles.

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