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Out of a garage that once held a ’63 Impala, a ’65 GTO convertible, and a ’68 Camaro SS, one lifelong muscle car owner picked a 1967 Plymouth GTX as his all-time favorite – a car built around a standard 375-horsepower 440 Super Commando that only 737 buyers skipped in favor of the pricier Hemi option. Read on to find out why Plymouth’s ‘gentleman’s muscle car’ beat out three genuinely legendary rivals for the top spot.
Phil Martin sold his 1965 GTO, regretted it, and bought this charcoal blue 1966 replacement in 1995 to fill the gap it left behind. Lou Costabile catches up with Phil and the car at Rosemont’s World of Wheels show, and the comments spend as much time praising the restoration work as they do debating whether 1966 or 1967 wore the GTO’s taillights better.
Bill Ryder was hunting for a 1965 GTO to restore when this 1964 convertible in rare Nocturne Blue found him instead, and it’s been winning top honors at Pontiac shows ever since. Filmed at the 26th Annual Indian Uprising All Pontiac Weekend, it’s a reminder of how the GTO invented the muscle car formula. See what makes this particular example a repeat show winner.