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GTO

from B. D. Howard (nomad@onebox.com)
Gee, I always thought it meant Get Tools Out!

Actually, D. Bosko is almost exactly right. The Ferrarri GTO was a serious race car (I believe it dates from around '62). In the Ferrarri GTO stood for Grand Touring Ommologato (And it's Italian). The last word is homologated in English.

Y'know how when a company builds a specialty race car that it wants to race in production classes (Plymouth Superbirds, for instance)? They are required to build at least a certain number of them and offer them for sale in order for it to be considered a stock production car. Often the number of units required to be built is 500.

When they have certified that that many have been built, it is considered a production car which can be raced in production classes against other production cars (as opposed to specials which were never offered for sale to the public) it has been homologated.

None of this appies to the Pontiac. They just stole the name from the Prancing Horse Guy - the late, great Enzo.

(posted 7961 days ago)

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