Fast start
Pontiac GTO sales for the first 3 model years
1964: 32,000*
1965: 65,000
1966: 97,000, (best sales year for GTO)
Drag racing was popular on the streets of America in the early 1960s, and bragging rights were tied to who beat whom the night before on Woodward Avenue in suburban Detroit or on Waukegan Road in north suburban Chicago.
