1964 Pontiac GTO Convertible - Jay Leno's Garage

1964 Pontiac GTO Convertible – Jay Leno’s Garage

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Tim Miller of Surf City Garage stops by the garage to show Jay his very rare 4-speed “Yorktown Blue” 1964 Pontiac GTO Convertible.

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  1. Great car,but it's a Tempest with the "GTO" option. John Z. snuck this one past the bigwigs at GM! Please remember him for creating the genre of the "Muscle Car"

  2. Many people say the GTO was not the 1st muscle car. They are wrong because they think that a car only needs more power to be a muscle car.
    The GTO represents the 1960s. Before the GTO, a middle class man who had a salary that was about average, could afford to buy either a sports car or a family car, but not both. He may have the desire for a 2 seater with lots of power and good handling, but if he had a wife and kids, he needed a car that would carry his wife and kids or 4 adults and their luggage. maybe he could get a Mustang GT with the optional V8 and at least have a sporty car, but That Mustang was lacking in space in the rear seat and trunk.
    Then…. When the GTO was available this guy could buy one and have a car that was sporty, but had enough room for 4 people and their luggage AND cost LESS than the mustang with those V8 and GT options. Thus the GTO and all the cars that copied it became a new genre, the Muscle car. OK this is subjective and a matter of opinion, but if you think about it you will understand what I mean. Those were the good old days. Nowadays if a man earns only that average salary, the auto industry executives will say " F him , if he can only pay us enough money to buy one car, he has to make up his mind which kind he wants. Look if he had not become a loser, he could buy 2 cars from us and get what he wants. WTF is wrong with poor people ? Why is it that if they don't earn lots of money, THEY have to be the ones who have kids? These are the kind of guys who have F*+* ed up he world! "

  3. Check out that Car & Driver "GTO vs GTO" test.
    LMAO. Besides the secret 421 cu engine, that "race" was just a straight-lined rag race. On a track, the Ferrari would have eaten the Pontiac for lunch. The Pontiac sure is beautiful, though.

  4. In the first few seconds of the drive segment when he begins to accelerate,they maybe had cold oil that wasn't getting to the top, but it sounds like he has a lifter tapping or a valve about to break.The sound also seems to be at idle near the exhaust.

  6. @11:08 – "This looks like some rather bizarre….ah…well nevermind, I'm not even gonna go there…" I do believe he was well along that path before he high-tailed it out of there.

  8. I'll bet Jay would buy this car from him in a minute, if he could.

  9. I can't believe that tri-power rig is just sitting in that trunk. It is so beautiful.

  10. For a minute there I thought they weren't going to mention Jim Wangers. Whew.

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