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BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES; The first real muscle car showdown since the demise of the Chevrolet Camaro pits the new Ford Mustang GT against the newly freshened Pontiac GTO.
Byline: Natalie Neff
Pontiac likes to lay claim to the title of original muscle car with its GTO, and while that first 1964 model was more a big-engined Tempest than a pure Goat, we're hardly one to quibble over the finer points. What is definitive to our minds, however, is this: It would be at least a year before the diminutive Ford Mustang, which bowed that same year, would even come close to the midsize Pontiac's performance, and at least four years before a Mustang had any chance of out-and-out beating one. That first year, however, was no contest.
In its top-end form, a stock '64 GTO with a 348-hp (at the flywheel), 389-cid V8 was good for 6.6 ...
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