Let's get it out of the way early on – this article works on the popular assumption that the 1964 Pontiac GTO was the first ...

There were fast rides before the GTO, but Pontiac made performance affordable, bringing muscle cars to the masses.

This 1965 "Goat" rolled off the assembly line in Iris Mist, a rare, one-year-only color. Now it also packs a beefed-up V8.

Despite being out of production for more than 40 years, plenty of Catalinas remain available on the used market.

The Judge used to be a dealer drag racing car in the seventies, fitted with two Ram Air V V8s, an engine that never made it ...