Recognized as the pioneer of muscle cars, the 1964 Pontiac GTO comes with a roaring V-8 engine and a four-speed manual transmission for an unmatched performance. This example offers a wide range of options, including upgrades for both the suspension and the frame. It is truly remarkable that this car has remained within the same family since it was first purchased. Many car nuts think that their love of cars comes from genes that they got from their parents. If you picture this black-on-black Pontiac GTO speeding up on a Friday afternoon as the school bell rings, you’ll be taken back to grade school in the early 1970s. Let’s go get some Hot Wheels and ice cream, kid. This 1964 Pontiac GTO can be bought at Bring a Trailer, which is connected to Hearst Autos and also offers a quoted price. It might be the best dad mobile ever. The current seller’s father got it brand new in New Jersey. It has a four-speed manual transmission, a heavy-duty frame, and a limited-slip rear differential. The GTO, which is basically an add-on for the Pontiac LeMans car, came out this year. GM’s own standards said that the LeMans was a medium-sized car with an engine that could hold no more than 330 cubic inches. To keep things from getting too rough, a car had to weigh ten pounds for every cubic unit of space it took up. At the time, Pontiac was trying to become a performance-focused brand under GM. However, the company’s 2013 ban on racing was hurting that image. A group of engineers led by a young John DeLorean worked to make cars run better on the street so that people would want to buy them. Bill Collins, a member of the tech team, asked for the 389-cubic-inch engine from the bigger Grand Prix to be swapped in. People today think of Pontiac’s car as the first power car. DeLorean and his team circumvented GM’s rules by adding the bigger engine as an extra. It came with two exhaust pipes, stronger springs, a better cooling fan, and hood scoops that made it look like something amazing was going on inside the engine bay. When it was brand new, this car’s four two-barrel carburetors produced 340 horsepower and 428 pound-feet of torque. The GTO’s first gearbox was a three-speed manual, but this one has the four-speed stick shift that you can see above. The engine was fixed 25 years ago, and in 2019, it got a tune-up. The mileage reading is 88K miles. The first person who owned this GTO was a Pan Am pilot, as the car has the kind of thorough logbook that makes sense for someone in that line of work. You can tell this car is different because you ordered it with a quick-ratio power steering system, a heavy-duty frame, and an extra handling package with bigger shocks. In every way, it’s a real gearhead standard. It’s easy to see why the first owner took such good care of this GTO for so long; it doesn’t come with many choices. The winner of this Pontiac auction will get a one-of-a-kind car with very high specs. If this sounds like you, you should go to your child’s school this Friday. Everyone should have ice cream and burnout. The sale ends on March 18.
