1972 Pontiac GTO - A Round-Port In The Storm

Extracted from an original 1971 Pontiac promotional film, this clip shows a 1971 Judge drag racing a 1970 GTO. The purpose of this footage was to promote how the new 1971 Judge (455 H.O.) was as powerful as the previous year's 1970 GTO, referred to as the 'Super Duty' in this clip, but they were referring to the Ram Air IV. GM had dropped all the compression ratios on all their 1971 models in order to run Unleaded Fuel, so a reduction in horsepower for 1971 was unavoidable. Pontiac countered the

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