Pontiac’s first muscle car helped launch the GTO legend and reshape American performance history.

While the Pontiac GTO kicked off the muscle car craze when it was introduced in 1964, these five models brought together a powerful V8 and a conventional mass-produced chassis several years erlier.

The 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge occupies a rare place in automotive culture, admired not only for its performance but for the attitude it projected on the street. More than half a century after it first ...