GTO photos on Flickr

This Pontiac GTO - essentially a LeMans/Tempest coupe with a high-performance package - is from the car's second generation of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its idea of performance in a practical family-car package would be even more successful when Volkswagen introduced the GTI.

Taken at the Summit car show.

Ferrari 599 GTO by Chad Tillekeratne

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Ferrari 288 GTO by Eric Rosendahl

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Ferrari 288 GTO after the 2009 Concorso Italiano

My friend was lucky enough to get to drive this into the show for the owner, who couln't attend. When the show was over, we had the choice to sit in (uphill) traffic for an hour, or hang out for an hour and then have an open road. So we drove down to the end of the course and decided to do an impromptu photoshoot. Wouldn't you?

GTO vs Hamann by Harry Riddles

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Which would you have?

Watch the video of it parking up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUkvfnzSvg

Ferrari 599 GTO - Portugal by Rui mateus

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Ferrari 599 GTO - Portugal

Two 599 GTO's in one shot by Xantijn Ve

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Ferrari 288 GTO by Peter Blackert

The Ferrari GTO (often referred to as Ferrari 288 GTO)(Type F114) is an exotic homologation of the Ferrari 308 GTB produced from 1984 to 1987 in Ferrari's Maranello factory, designated GT for Gran Turismo and O for Omologata (homologated in Italian).

Some of the GTO's styling features were first displayed on a 308 GTB design exercise by Pininfarina shown at the 1977 Geneva Auto Salon. The 288 GTO had started out as a modified version of the 308/328 to hold down costs and to build the car quickly, but little of the 308/328 was left when the 288 GTO was finished.

Easily noticeable differences were the GTOs bulging fender flares, larger front/rear spoilers, large "flag-style" outside mirrors and four driving lights at the far sides of the grille. Retained from the original 250 GTO were slanted air vents, put in the GTO's rear fenders to cool the brakes, as well as the rear wing's design, borrowed from the 250 GTO's original wing. The GTO also had wider body panels than the 308's because they had to cover much larger Goodyear tires mounted on racing wheels.

The GTO was based on the rear mid-engine, rear wheel drive 308 GTB, which has a 2.9 L (2,927 cc) V8. The "288" refers to the GTO's 2.8 litre DOHC 4 valves per cylinder V8 engine as it used a de-bored by 1 mm (0.04 in) with IHI twin-turbochargers, Behr air-to-air intercoolers, Weber-Marelli fuel injection and a compression ratio of 7.6:1. The 2.85 litre engine capacity was dictated by the FIA's requirement for a turbocharged engine's capacity to be multiplied by 1.4. This gave the GTO an equivalent engine capacity of 3,997 cc (4.0 L; 243.9 cu in), just under the Group B limit of 4.0 litres.

Unlike the 308's 2,927 cc (2.9 L; 178.6 cu in) engine, the GTO's 2,855 cc (2.9 L; 174.2 cu in) V8 was mounted longitudinally, using the 308's rear trunk space. This was necessary to make room for the twin turbochargers and intercoolers. The racing transmission was mounted to the rear of the longitudinal engine, moving the rear differential and wheels aft. The arrangement also let the GTO use a more conventional race-car engine/transmission layout for such things as quick gear-ratio changes for various tracks. As a result, the wheelbase was 110 mm (4.3 in) longer at 2,450 mm (96.5 in).

1964 Pontiac GTO by blue65pv544

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This 1964 Pontiac GTO was photographed in Connecticut, if I recall correctly in 1982.

GTO 49V by markkirk85

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Leyland Fleetline / Northern Counties

Camms

New to Derby City Transport 1/1980 as 49

599 GTO by Zander_911

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Bella Cavallo

Ferrari 288 GTO by Eric Rosendahl

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Ferrari 288 GTO after the 2009 Concorso Italiano

My friend was lucky enough to get to drive this into the show for the owner, who couln't attend. When the show was over, we had the choice to sit in (uphill) traffic for an hour, or hang out for an hour and then have an open road. So we drove down to the end of the course and decided to do an impromptu photoshoot. Wouldn't you?

GTO by Duane Tate

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1974 Pontiac GTO by Ham Hock

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My brother's Pinemist Green 1974 Pontiac GTO. I deleted the background, darkened the windows, and increased the wheel diameter in Photoshop. This is an old photo, taken before I bought my new cameras, which is why the image quality is somewhat lacking.

This car now has a stout 455ci V8 putting out approximately 500hp, rather than the wheezy 200hp 350ci it came off the line with. Not the most attractive year of the GTO, but it's certainly a rare and fun to drive car.

Ferrari 330 GTO by scott597

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Ferrari 330 GTO

250 GTO by Julian Gajewski