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Pontiac was not supposed to build the 1964 GTO at all. A corporate rule banned engines over 330 cubic inches from the compact Tempest, so three engineers found a loophole in the option book and dropped a 389 in anyway. Management approved 5,000 units as a hedge against failure. Buyers ordered more than six times that number in the first year, and Detroit spent the next decade chasing what Pontiac started by accident.
At the 9th Annual Cantigny Park Car Show outside Chicago, Lou Costabile sits down with Bill Warzynski, who has owned this 1965 Pontiac GTO hardtop since he bought it new — nearly fifty years and counting. It’s the second model year for the car that started the muscle car era, and one commenter’s story about a neighbor’s GTO abandoned in a driveway since 1978 makes clear how rare that kind of loyalty really is. Watch to hear Warzynski’s own story of five decades with one car.