{"id":40166,"date":"2017-06-01T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=40166"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:05:42","slug":"muscle-car-madness-1969-pontiac-gto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/muscle-car-madness-1969-pontiac-gto\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-40166-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/1969-Pontiac-GTO-1-copy.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;40167&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nThe Plymouth Roadrunner\\u2019s debut in 1968 put a dent in Pontiac\\u2019s rather complacent attitude. For the first time in GTO\\u2019s history, the Roadrunner bit into the GTO\\u2019s market share, and everyone at Pontiac felt it. A lot of nerves had been frayed, yet they assumed their existing Tempest could compete against such a rival, and on paper, they seemed equal \\u0026#8211; but Pontiac\\u2019s Chief Engineer, John DeLorean, didn\\u2019t like the comparison, realizing it would hurt GTO\\u2019s image. And if anyone should know, it was the designer who put American car manufacturing on its head with the introduction of the GTO back in 1964 \\u2013 America\\u2019s first \\u2018muscle\\u2019 car.\\n\\nClive Branson brings us the story of the 1969 Pontiac in this awesome article, which appears in full on Hot Rod Hotline!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/1969-Pontiac-GTO-2-copy.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;40168&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/1969-Pontiac-GTO-Tach-copy.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;40173&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/1969-Pontiac-GTO-5-copy.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;40171&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/1969-Pontiac-GTO-air-scoop-copy.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;40172&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/1969-Pontiac-GTO-4-copy.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;40170&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/1969-Pontiac-GTO-3-copy.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;40169&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Pontiac GTO&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Plymouth Roadrunner\u2019s debut in 1968 put a dent in Pontiac\u2019s rather complacent attitude. 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