Pontiac may be dead as a division of GM, but the enthusiast community will be around a while longer. Jim Wangers helped build up Pontiac's performance credentials in the 1960s, and he is the reason you know the name GTO today. 
Big 3 Performance has created the Jim Wangers Signature Edition Pontiac GTO, taking the original body of a '69 GTO and placing it atop a modern chassis custom-fabricated by Roadster Shop. Big 3 says it built its GTO to handle track work; the front suspension is borrowed from a DSE (Detroit Speed & Engineering) C6 Corvette and the rear is a triangulated four-link design.
The engine, supplied by Butler Performance, is a 505-cid (8.3-liter), fuel-injected V8. It's hooked up to a Dodge Viper-spec, 6-speed Tremec manual driving the rear wheels through 3.73 gears. HRE wheels measure 19-by-10 inches up front and 20-by-12 inches in the rear.
There's not much old Goat heritage in the cabin, which is apparently lavished with heated/cooled Recaro seats, air conditioning and power this and that. You can see this GTO for yourself at SEMA in November, or at the Tour de Wangers in mid-October.
Inside Line News: Jim Wangers Announces Signature Edition GTO
estreka says:
09:58 AM, 09/19/09
Yes please. I'm curious to see the interior.
petrolhead85 says:
01:20 PM, 09/19/09
I assume that a "Jim Wangers Signature Edition" includes a free hairpiece to put on the dash like the shag pile dash topper that you can get for the Nissan Cube.
desmolicious says:
07:45 AM, 09/21/09
Jim Wangers? Is that his porn name?