Book - GTO: Pontiac's Great One Hardcover by Darwin Holmstrom (336 Pages) 145802

• Author: Darwin Holmstrom
• Photography by: David Newhardt
• Type of book: Hardcover, 336 pg.
• Book size: 10.5 x 12 in.
• No. of Illustrations: 346 color & 33 b/w images
• Item #: 145802
• EAN (ISBN-13): 978-0760335154
• Date Published: May 17, 2009
• Publisher: Motorbooks

In 1963 Pontiac's Chief Engineer Mr. 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 Pontiac 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, the muscle car, to the nation’s most discriminating drivers.

This is the story of the Pontiac GTO, of the people who made it a reality and a sales sensation, of those who owned and loved the cars. And it is, above all, a story of the cars themselves, from the initial option package offered for the 1964 model year through the high-performance late-model standouts. With color photographs, drawings, and detailed stats, this book GTO Pontiac's Great One is not so much the story of a historic car as an illustrated biography of American muscle.