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GTO Idea Man Bill Collins dies

ormer Pontiac engineer William T. Collins, Jr., passed away on March 5 in Suttons Bay, Mich. He was born April 3, 1932, and was 90 at the time of his passing. Collins has been credited with the idea for the Pontiac GTO, for engineering the prototype and for convincing General Motors management not to discontinue the Firebird and Camaro

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