The Original Muscle

<p>In the early 1960s Detroit was a city of chrome dreams and corporate rules-until a handful of Pontiac engineers decided to break them. The Original Muscle: The Pontiac GTO Story chronicles how a small team led by John Z. DeLorean Bill Collins and Russ Gee created a car that defied General Motors' own policies and sparked an American revolution on wheels. What began as a quiet experiment inside Pontiac's engineering department exploded into a national phenomenon that redefined performance youth culture and the very idea of what a car could be.</p><p></p><p>This is the complete fact-based narrative of the Pontiac GTO-from its rebellious birth in 1964 through its dominance of the 1960s muscle car wars its decline under emissions and insurance pressures and its 21st-century resurrection through a partnership with Australia's Holden. With richly detailed accounts of engineering breakthroughs marketing genius and cultural impact this book explores how the GTO captured the imagination of generations and became the template for every muscle car that followed.</p><p></p><p>From the Tri-Power era to the LS2 revival from The Tiger campaigns to The Judge The Original Muscle tells the full story of a car that refused to fade into history. This is not just the tale of a machine-it is the story of American performance itself born from defiance sustained by passion and immortalized by legend.</p>