Pontiac is often credited with lighting the tires on the muscle car era with the 1964 GTO, when the badge ... In the 1950s, drag and stock car racing were big business for the Big Three.

The '64 Pontiac GTO is the first of the muscle cars, and this one features a window-rattling V-8 and a four-speed manual ...

Now, we’re seeing how that all plays out in the following video, which pits a 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass W31 and a 1972 Pontiac GTO 455 HO in a head-to-head drag race. Recently hitting the web ...