The 1965 GTO sits at the center of muscle car mythology, and its engine choice still fuels debate. Collectors weigh the bragging rights of the factory Tri-Power setup against the everyday usability of ...

The GTO wasn’t a car. It was a door kicked open. Pontiac detonated the muscle-car movement by ignoring GM’s “no big engines in mid-sizes” policy and stuffing a 389 into the polite little Tempest.

The Muscle Car that started it all still knows how to turn heads. On a sunny afternoon in San Diego, this 1965 Pontiac GTO convertible stood gleaming, the kind of red that burns its way into memory.

Let's get the most important thing out of the way first: this is not a numbers-matching GTO, and the trim tag tells you so. The decode confirms the car left Pontiac's Michigan assembly plant in August ...

Orvil Osche is a lucky man. He has owned not one, but three beautiful '65 GTOs. How and where he found his latest, however, led to an adventure. Each of us knows that the perfect Pontiac is out there ...

If it looks, sounds, and accelerates like a Tri-Power, then it must be a Tri-Power, right? Not necessarily, as aircraft technician Ben Stegman's Mayfair Maize '65 GTO convertible proves. "Think about ...

A 1965 Pontiac GTO convertible equipped with a Tri-Power V8 and four-speed manual is enough to get any muscle car enthusiast's attention. One that's covered barely 20,000 miles over six decades makes ...