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Pontiac’s Tempest was launched in 1961 as affordable transport for Middle America. Few were sold and those that did were ...
Muscle cars were so common then that many of them sat on dealership lots for weeks or months; many of those same cars, like ...
Oldsmobile 4-4-2 W-30 versus Buick GS 455 Stage 1, A-body brothers each considered the “gentleman’s musclecar.” Sibling ...
The extra-cost options alone were over $2,000 back in 1971; the car shows 44,000 miles, and is more than 95% original, but the $330k price is fire ...
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Rare 1972 Pontiac GTO
One-owner. One-of-one. One last gasp of muscle before the lights went out. This GTO wasn’t supposed to survive.
Now, we’re seeing how that all plays out in the following video, which pits a 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass W31 and a 1972 Pontiac GTO 455 HO in a head-to-head drag race. Recently hitting the web ...
Tomlinson’s first car was a 1970 Olds Cutlass with a 455. He drove it for years around Calgary before moving on, returning to the fold when he bought his first 1974 Pontiac GTO. These are rare ...
The 455 V8 was Pontiac's top-of-the-line large displacement engine in its powerful muscle cars of the '70s. Iconic names like the Pontiac GTO Judge and the Buick Grand Sport also used variations ...
However, the real game-changer for the '70 GTO was the availability of Pontiac's 455-cubic inch V8, which, despite it's horsepower being equal to the Ram-Air IV, pushed the torque up to a ...
Unlike many of the other muscle cars on this list that were high-priced, high-powered variants that got overlooked by buyers, the Pontiac GTO 455 is a rarity primarily because it was a downgrade ...