Book Description
GTO is the car that started it all. Prior to 1964, performance cars were full-size hardtops and sedans with the largest-displacement engines available. While other manufacturers were concentrating on their full-size lines, Pontiac saw the potential for dropping a big block engine into an intermediate frame and marketing it at a budget price. Capturing the history of the A-body Pontiac, with emphasis on the GTO, this comprehensive reference includes the features that car enthusiasts are searching for. It includes all-new optional equipment installation rates, advertising slogans, expanded technical specifications, and collector-market values updated to 2003 for Tempest, Tempest Custom, LeMans (through 1981), Sprint, GTO, Luxury LeMans, LeMans Sport, LeMans GT, and GT-37, as well as dream, show, and racing cars. * Easy to use codes make Standard Catalog of GTO, Tempest & LeMans very user-friendly * More than 675 model listings and over 4,000 condition-graded prices * Features all-new Tempest, LeMans, GTO, and Pontiac color advertisements
About the Author
John Gunnell, a life-long automotive historian, is the automotive books editor for Krause Publications and former editor of Old Cars Weekly. He has authored numerous automotive books including 75 Years of Pontiac: The Official History, Standard Catalog of? Corvette 1953-2001, American Muscle Cars, Standard Catalog of Pontiac 1926-2002, Standard Catalog of V-8 Engines 1906-2002, Standard Catalog of? Firebird 1967-2002, Standard Catalog of Cameron, 1967-2002, and Standard Catalog of Chevelle 1964-1977 along with more than 30 others.
Standard Catalog of GTO, 1961-1993 FROM THE PUBLISHER
In January of 1963, the brass at General Motors issued a company-wide ban against producing high-performance "racing" cars. In hindsight, it was probably a good thing for car buffs that some bold thinkers in the company refused to listen. Only a year after that ban, GM unveiled what is often considered the first true American muscle car: the GTO. The car was actually an addition to the already successful Tempest/LeMans lineup, which had debuted three years earlier, but with 389 cubic inches stuffed into a midsize A-body car, the GTO was a whole new animal. It was a fast, no-frills head-turner that fostered a generation of imitators and challengers. In Standard Catalog of GTO, noted author John Gunnell chronicles the development of GTO and all its siblings and offspring in the Pontiac Tempest/LeMans lineup. Packed with history, production information, ID data, pricing, and beautiful photography, plus a look ahead at the spectacular 2004 GTO, Standard Catalog of GTO is a bumper-to-bumper biography of a great American automobile.
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