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OldRide Answers Home Using OldRide Answers Ask a Question   Browse Questions In: AMC Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Dodge Ford Lincoln Mercury Oldsmobile Packard Plymouth Pontiac Studebaker Volkswagen Other Makes Classic Trucks  General Topics General Questions Help Identify Classic Car News General Restoration Vehicle Maintenance Site Suggestions & Comments            Search Questions:    dreaminofcars      Why is the Pontiac GTO referred to as a "goat"?   posted: March 12, 2008       Answers (5)   pontiacsd      It was either Jim Wagner or the press in 1964, something to do with an advertisement... Wagner has a book out called Pontiac Glory Days, its all Pontiac from what I have heard. My Pete McCarthy (the Pontiac Bible) book doesnt mention anything about the term. posted:  March 12, 2008   ww1979video      GOaT GTO goat i think. wayne posted:  March 13, 2008   deason      To little kids the letters GTO on the car looked like the word GOAT from their preschool books and the name just stuck as that posted:  May 2, 2008   ericsmusclecars      Jim Wangers at a seminar at the GTOAA National Convention in 2008, he stated the name GOAT was conceived when the letter "A" was added to the letters G-T-O to form a word from the GTO abbreviation. The advertising gimmick was not well received by the GM brass as they didn't like the GTO name sake linked to an animal. Be that as it may, the name GOAT stuck. Despite how many versions there are of the way the name GOAT came to be, Jim Wangers version is the official one. sources: I have a beauty for sale. posted:  January 27, 2009   goat69gto      A Goat is Shown in a commercail for The new GTO so they named it "The Goat" posted:  August 12, 2009

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