GTO: Pontiac's Great One

by Darwin Holmstrom and David Newhardt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760339856
• ISBN13: 9780760339855
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.2" x 10.5"