Tempest was tempting in '60s // GM offered `spectacular innovations'

Chicago Sun-Times | July 12, 1998| | Copyright

It was the early 1960s, and prosperous General Motors was feeling adventuresome. So it shrugged off its largely conservative 1950s auto engineering and came up with innovative cars such as the Pontiac Tempest.

The 1961-63 Tempest was trim-looking and far divorced from GM's overchromed 1950s models with tailfins. The 112-inch-wheelbase car was larger than new small cars General Motors had developed for the first time, but was smaller than a mid-size GM auto. GM just called it a "new-size" car.

The Tempest debuted as a sedan and a station wagon with fold-down rear seatbacks. But a snazzy ...

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