GTP Cool Wall: 1964 Pontiac Tempest GTO

[Wiegert]

1964 Pontiac Tempest GTO nominated by @All Your Base

Body Style: 2-door coupé, 2-door hardtop, 2-door convertible
Engine: 6.4L (389 cu in) V8
Power: 325-348 hp
Torque: 428 lb-ft
Weight: 1542 kg
Transmission: 3-speed manual, 4-speed manual, 2-speed automatic, 3-speed automatic
Drivetrain: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
Additional Information:
The 1964 Pontiac GTO was an option package for the Pontiac Tempest, available in two-door coupe, hardtop, and convertible body styles. The US$295 package included a 389 cu in (6.0 liter) V8 rated at 325 hp at 4800 rpm with a single Carter AFB four-barrel carburetor and dual exhaust, chromed valve covers and air cleaner, seven-blade clutch fan, a floor-shifted three-speed manual transmission with Hurst shifter, stiffer springs, larger diameter front sway bar, wider wheels with 7.50 × 14 redline tires, hood scoops, and GTO badges. Optional equipment included a four-speed manual, Super Turbine 300 two-speed automatic transmission, more powerful "Tri-Power" carburettor rated at 348 hp, metallic drum brake linings, limited-slip differential, heavy-duty cooling, ride and handling package, and the usual array of power and convenience accessories. Total GTO package sales for 1964 were 32,450. Throughout the 1960s, Ace Wilson's Royal Pontiac, a Pontiac car dealer in Royal Oak, Michigan, offered a special tune-up package for Pontiac 389 engines. Many were fitted to GTOs, and the components and instructions could be purchased by mail, as well as installed by the dealer. The car was the subject of "G.T.O.", a surf rock song performed by Ronny And The Daytonas which hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 and sold over one million copies.​

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[MisterWaffles]

I like the convertible the most. Cool.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Awesome 0.5 mpg lard-barge that projects far more charisma than it really should. Sub-zero.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

This will be sub-zero, that Judge crap wont.

 

[UltimateYosh]

It's a '60s muscle car.

Cool.

 

[05XR8]

One of the coolest two box & a coffin designs ever.

 

[ThrasherDBS]

Classic muscle car.

Instant Sub-Zero

 

[ScottPuss20]

An absolute legend. The car that started the muscle car craze. Without it there would be no Mustang, no Camaro, no Charger and no Barracuda. Cool

 

[TheCracker]

An absolute legend. The car that started the muscle car craze. Without it there would be no Mustang, no Camaro, no Charger and no Barracuda. Cool

The Mustang came out the same year, if not a little earlier. Plus the Mustang and Camaro are really pony cars. They were available, and still are, with distinctly un-muscular engines.

 

[Cowboy]

One of my all time favorite cars, and one of my all time dream cars. I'd take one in beige or red with a hardtop.

SZ

 

[Mike458]

It's a GTO.

SZ. (then again, most, if not all of the muscle car legends are SZ)

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Easy (SZ) like Sunday morning.

 

[CarBastard]

I'm regretting giving it a "high" cool because the more I look at the pictures the cooler it gets. Classy-looking interior, V8 rumble and a very well proportioned design that oozes presence and yet is devoid of all the tacky and brash elements of the muscle cars that came after it. No boy-racer spoilers or hood vents, no silly decals, no groovy paint colours, no dumb names like "Judge" or "Boss". Don't get me wrong, I like a Go Mango-coloured car called "The Machine" with body parts straight from a Trans-Am racecar and a hood mounted tachometer as much as anyone, buuuuut they are NOT cool.

Damn, Johnny Delorean did some great things when he wasn't trying to traffic cocaine...

Sub Zero.

 

[Turbo]

Definitely the cleanest looking Pontiac muscle car. Nothing about this GTO is overly flashy, which is not typical of Pontiac.

 

[Michelin Man]

It's cool, definitely, but that's about it for me

But personally I prefer the Plymouth belvedere GTX (in hemi form) instead though

 

[Adamgp]

Easy SZ.

Not just because 60's muscle car, but it pretty much completed Pontiac's successful transition from an "old man's" division to a performance division.

 

[TexRex]

But personally I prefer the Plymouth belvedere GTX (in hemi form)

After you've forked over an arm, a leg and a testicle from the same side, not to mention your first-born son, you can have one. As inflated as GTO prices are, they're dwarfed by that of Hemi cars.

 

[Michelin Man]

After you've forked over an arm, a leg and a testicle from the same side, not to mention your first-born son, you can have one. As inflated as GTO prices are, they're dwarfed by that of Hemi cars.

Perhaps, but nonetheless would have the GTX regardless of the GTO, just so much cooler to me. Plus if I was in the position to buy a top price GTO, I'd like to think I'd have enough 'wonga' to get the GTX instead .

 

[edawg456]

Sub zero all day

 

[The Chosen One]

 

[Razor440]

The people who have voted Seriously Uncool on one of the most influential cars of all time, are deemed fools in my book.

This car is an easy Sub-Zero.

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Then again, this is the same place that considered the '71 Super Bee an "uncool" car just because people go ape:censored: over "matching numbers"

 

[Michelin Man]

Then again, this is the same place that considered the '71 Super Bee an "uncool" car just because people go ape:censored: over "matching numbers"

Don't understand why the Super Bee would ever be voted uncool, definitely sub-zero. To be honest I'd have it over the GTO.

 

[Turbo]

Don't understand why the Super Bee would ever be voted uncool, definitely sub-zero. To be honest I'd have it over the GTO.

Some people just think muscle cars in general are uncool, and nothing is wrong with that.

 

[Michelin Man]

Some people just think muscle cars in general are uncool, and nothing is wrong with that.

Of course, and generally I'm not fussed by muscle cars either, hence why I only really like a select few, and they tend to be more obscure. But the Super Bee is one of those exceptions IMO, and is a very cool car, which is why I personally struggle to see why it'd be considered very uncool.

 

[cjr3559]

The grand dad of American muscle cars.

SZ

 

[Silver Arrows]

Subzero, but I much prefer the '65 and especially the '66 version.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

The people who have voted Seriously Uncool on one of the most influential cars of all time, are deemed fools in my book.

This car is an easy Sub-Zero.

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Then again, this is the same place that considered the '71 Super Bee an "uncool" car just because people go ape:censored: over "matching numbers"

I do. It has nothing to do with matching numbers, or at least for some of us that voted it uncool. It was the last jolt of a dying era, who had most of its influential cars made prior to the 71 super bee, the only thing less cool than it would be the 73 Chevelle and the Mustang II, and the Mexico Super Bees. It's not even in the same class as the car being polled here.

 

[axletramp]

Solid cool. Not SZ purely because I'd look an absolute tool driving one.

 

[Northstar]

I'd look an absolute tool driving one.

How is that any different than now?

 

[Turbo]

I'd look an absolute tool driving one.

You're 48. Most people who drive vintage muscle cars are old men, anyways. Therefore you'd look normal driving one.

I guess I'm sort of calling you old.