By 1969 the Pontiac GTO was cemented into the muscle car history books. Some would say that it is the keynote factory hot rod that started it all, with the most famous of all magazine stories that appeared in the Mar. ’64 issue of Car & Driver. They intended to compare a Pontiac GTO to a Ferrari GTO. But alas, the gods conspired, and the head-to-head comparison never materialized. But C&D still managed to “compare” one against the other. (Do you know what GTO stands for? It’s an acronym for Gran Turismo Omologato, a classification term commonly used in sports car racing.)
The ’69 GTO displayed in front of you, while beautifully built, immensely powerful, and an amazing performer, may not be as popular as the man who owns it. If
