The GTO wasn’t a car. It was a door kicked open. Pontiac detonated the muscle-car movement by ignoring GM’s “no big engines in mid-sizes” policy and stuffing a 389 into the polite little Tempest.
Montana resident Roger Hinther graduated secondary school at the dawn of the muscle car movement. It was 1964. The Big Three were beefing up their lineups for an all-out assault on the senses of the ...