The Pontiac GT-37 falls into the same vein as the Oldsmobile Rally 350 Cutlass, Buick GS350, and more-or-less the “Heavy Chevy” Chevelle…they all were GM’s short-term answer to shutting up the insurance companies who were coming down on big-cube, big-HP muscle cars. While the Nova and Camaro could still fly under the radar in small-block form, the bigger A-body cars needed a little more work to be entertaining with a small-block. The GT-37, however, wasn’t meant to be just a small-block screamer…it was meant to be a GTO that could fly under the radar of the insurance companies altogether. Based upon the Tempest body, the GT-37 could be optioned from mild to wild, including the Ram Air III engine minus the actual ram air setup. Since it was a Tempest no matter what, and not a GTO, insurance companies weren’t bothered, and on the street, the stripped down GT-37 could walk the more optioned Goat more often than not.

BangShifter G-Motive picked up a rough 1971.5 GT-37 early in February and has been busy getting the car cleaned up. From bodywork to removing black widows, the Pontiac was in need of work in a bad way. A 350/manual trans car, the Pontiac will be home to one nasty mill that was originally slated for a Formula Firebird. Not wanting to ‘cage the Formula, he went looking for a shell to build and would up dragging the “junior supercar” home to clean up. This will be a project to watch as G-Motive continues with the work.