New Pontiac GTO Book Now Available

[Larry]

Can't do a review yet on this new GTO book, but it sounds like a winner.

Check out what they say about it below, and order your own copy at: http://www.oldcarsbookstore.com/gto-pontiac-s-great-one?et_mid=601190&rid=25286268

GTO Pontiac's Great One
By Darwin Holmstrom

Format: Hardcover

The birth of the muscle car revolution can be summed up in three simple letters: G-T-O.

In 1963 Pontiac's Chief Engineer 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 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.

In GTO, Pontiac’s Great One, author Darwin Holmstrom explores the environment that allowed the creation of the prototypical muscle car. He tells the inside story of what happened at Pontiac to change the division’s offerings from stodgy old coots’ pedestrian transports to zoomy, hip factory hot rods. In the process, the division was whisked from the edge of oblivion and propelled to the rank of the nation’s number three automaker.

GTO, Pontiac’s Great One includes an illustrated, fold-out timeline and photographer David Newhardt’s lavish images, which leave no detail uncaptured.