Gto by Holmstrom, Darwin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents The Photographer The Author Chapter 1: We’Re Going Racing!

Strato-Streak V-8 Stripping Off the Suspenders Super Duty Group Football Players in Ballet Slippers Enter Jim Wangers Royal Pontiac National Champions Super Duty 421 Nascar Domination Royal Bobcat

Chapter 2: Delorean’s Outlaw Car

Grand Prix The General Motors Racing Ban Death of the Super Duty Group Marketing to a New Market Gran Turismo Omologato Corporate Renegades Serious Hardware The Hurst Connection Slow Start Trying Not to Sell Cars Overwhelming Success Royal Bobcat Package A New Look From Mild to Wild Hurst Motor Trend Riverside 500 Pace Car The Hurst Geeto Tiger

Chapter 3: Coping with Success

Rolling Coke Bottles Thwarted The Monkeemobile “Beat the Tiger” Record Year Irresponsible Behavior The Death of Tri-Power The Great One Maximum Displacement Minimum Motivation The Beast His and Hers New Power, Old Looks Marketing Challenges

Chapter 4: A Maturing Car For a Maturing Audience

Endura Bumpers One Headlight Ram Air II “His and Hers ” Last Ride Marketing Miscreants A Very Good Year A Serious Car for Crazy Times Ram Air III and Ram Air IV “The Judge” Marketing the Judge Back to the Drag Strip Too Much Success

Chapter 5: Highlights and Low Points

No Longer a “400-Cubic-Inch World” 400 or 455? A Wild Mild Restyle Return of the Judge Sales Disaster The Performance Division? 455 H.O., Take Two Neutered Goats The Energy of Decay The Last Judge and the Last Convertible Abdicating the Throne The Perception of Power Return of the Lemans Gto WW5

Chapter 6: The Short-Lived Reincarnation of the Gto and the Death of Pontiac

The Gto that Should Have Been Long, Slow Fade Oil Shock Hitting Bottom Bad Idea, Worse Execution Thirsty Dog Ram Air The Worst of the Best or the Best of the Worst? Pontiac’s Final Expletive The Dark Ages The Turbo Trans Am Street Legal Performance Aborted Rebirth Creature Comforts Rave Reviews New Goat a No-Go LS2 The Second Death of the Gto A Mistake? Hard Times at General Motors The Death of Pontiac

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