[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Hesster1977

Here is a Article from the Pontiac Mag, August '83, on the "Rise and Fall of the GTO". Cool back history on the development with the GM players Wangers (came up with the idea for the GTO in 1962), Estes, and DeLorean.

Pages 1 - 3.

Just to be clear - Mr Wangers was never a PMD employee.

He worked for the advertising agency with the Pontiac account, which was McManus, John and Adams.

The idea for putting the 389 cu in engine in an intermediate sized vehicle came as a result of a Saturday morning hoist review, where the vehicle chief engineer pitched the idea to DeLorean.

Incidentally, at the time of my retirement, we were still doing these hoist review/brain storming sessions at Milford. If I had been there that day, they both would have turned to me and said "...when can we drive it?".

K