We now know what eventually happened to the GTO in the first half of the new decade, but Pontiac still hoped to rescue its ...

Thanks to new regulations and rapidly changing market tastes, Pontiac abandoned its plans to fit the '73 GTO with the newly developed SD-455 engine, instead fitting it with a standard 455.

1970 wasn't an easy year for the muscle car space as a whole, and the GTO couldn't escape the wrath of insurers. The transition to small engines turned the GTO into a sitting duck, so the yearly ...