[Autopost] Pontiac GTO. Genesis.
Unnecessary educational activities are ongoing. True connoisseurs know about this, neophytes are unlikely to remember, but your humble servant, one way or another, will tell. In general, with those who did not run away after such an introduction, again I and my paired wheels.
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We have a funny habit: in a positive way among any objects or phenomena, we usually distinguish two of them. They are “the best of. “And” The first of. “. That is, we praise the one who was the first to come up with something “like”, and the one who later brought it to his mind (because it is almost impossible to build something first, leaving no space for further refinement with a file). Actually, what leads to? And among my favorites, called in different sections of the population with buckets, bricks, gluttors or oil-kars (not “muscles”, but “oil”-learn the terminology and do not disgrace it), because there was also a pioneer. And now for Auto … k-km … Avtolyubov everything fell into place: I will broadcast you about Pontiac GTO.
Imagine the situation: 1964, for some 20 years, you live in the United States of Democracy, and it somehow has happened that you can’t order an expensive sports car from mossy Europe, and you want to hardly quickly wheeled the streets. What to do? In the best case, to poke around in the garage, collecting a hot-rod, and if your hands are of deviant origin-sob from hopelessness.
However, Pontiac has already matured a plan https://gamblingdata.net/casinos/casiplay-casino/ for the transformation of someone else’s assault in completely, its money. And this plan was to pump up the unremarkable Tempest coupe with steroids. What? And all. So easy everything is brilliant. However, it was, of course, a damn thing, of course, was just.
And it was not even in the technical side of the matter. It was easy to increase the dimensions of the already large motor compartment so that it contains a 6.4-liter V8, which was to soon become an object of worship. It was difficult to deceive the GMC, which at that time determined the standards of the construction of cars, and among the postulates of which it was: “May the engines powerful in the rogue cars will not fall” or something so. Absurd? Of course, but what to do? And at this stage, they deserved Pontiac eternal honor and respect. They got out of the position elegantly: the engine, which was supposed to make a 350-horsepower magnet for women from grandfather’s compartment, was simply screwed as an affordable option with some improvements and an additional payment to some unfortunate 300 evergreen.
Thus began the era of oil-karov. Although it is strange to call an era for a decade and a half, but by the number of events that occurred during this time in the automobile world, it is quite fair. For comparison, remember how long ago the lineup was updated? How long known to you the model has experienced restyling? Now, come to terms with the grayness of our time: then restyling took place a year after the release of the model, and it itself completely and completely changed two later. That’s where you have gathered you, not distinguishing Charger ’69 from Charger ’70.
It did not bypass it and a miracle from Pontiac. GMC, evaluating the idea and looking at the sales figures, revised her policy regarding available sports cars, and swept … GTO was saved from Tempest, ceasing to be its option, receiving its own chassis and body. The latter, by the way, also became the legislator of fashion. The famous “Form of the Coca-Cola bottle”, which flaunted all the oil-kars, was originally a visiting card GTO. Speaking of the name. It is uncharacteristic somehow for Americans to just take and call cars with some strange letters. So, this time it was done intentionally: “Once to give a powerful heart to the car, then to reward the appropriate name,” they decided in Pontiac and copied the Italian abbreviation Gran Turismo Omologato in the fastest versions of Ferrari.
The latter, by the way, went on the first number: the very first and best advertising moves that stimulated sales was the study of the then second -rate magazine Car and Driver, which was compared by GTO Italian and GTO American. And they humiliated Ferrari on the track in full, because Pontiac gave reporters for experiments sports versions of the coupe. And the scribblers are happy to try: they held all the measurements, published the results, and the revolution happened. The car concern in the blink of an eye was enriched, and the magazine became popular (which, by the way, remains today).
Why, if everything was so good, we do not see those same oil-kars on the streets, and their “great-grandchildren” began to be what they were recognized as fought-the lot of the elect? And because the year 1974 happened, and fuel ceased to cost a penny, the ecology suddenly began to excite everyone, and the insurers had statistics on the death of adolescents behind the wheel of high-speed “cruisers”. And these three circumstances were more than enough to put an end to the history of “cars with muscles”. By that time, the GTO had found a 7.4-liter engine, the supply of forces rolled up to the four hundred, and the popularity did not think to fall, which is why the whole situation seems only offensive.
Later, companies began to play on the nostalgia of motorists. New “Mustangs” began to appear, resurrected Camaro, after them Dodge were discouraged by the restarting of the Challenger model, and Pontiac had already failed several attempts to breathe life into the legendary name and had been in place forever, being one of the appendages of a bankrupt GMC. A sort of allusion to the “short but bright life”.
Although if anyone is familiar with the history of this company, he perfectly understands that I am dramatizing. There were also Firebird, Trans Am, Solstice, but, you see, nothing can compare with that magnificent idea, impregnated with youth, enthusiasm and craving for adventures to all available places that Pontiac embodied in metal in the distant 1964. The idea that cost all the years of the company’s existence marked the beginning of the new era of the automotive industry and gave people like me a lifelong supply of aesthetic pleasure. Not for nothing, the abbreviation unusual American ear was adapted shortly after the release of the car, turning it into Goat. And hid under the “goat” the honorary title “The Great One of All Time”.
Do not be afraid to create, bring something new to your and other people’s lives, and even more so to take risks in the process. Such will be a highly moraine part of my today’s greed.
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Thank you for your attention!