Pontiac launched muscle-car era with GTO

摘要

Drag racing was popular on the streets of America in the early 1960s, and bragging rights were tied to who beat whom the night before on Woodward Avenue in suburban Detroit or on Waukegan Road in north suburban Chicago. The timing was perfect for Pontiac's 1964 Tempest Le-Mans GTO. Pontiac needed an image car because General Motors had banned its brands from racing. The GTO became America's first muscle car - and a legend.