I have a feeling this will be a great thread... Anyway, Being born in 1974 sucked!! Most of these cars were already gone when I came of age in teh 1990s. However, my love of teh car esp Pontiacs came about due to TV shows such as Dukes of Hazzard. That charger got me into smokey and teh bandit and what not....A fella Ishared my birthday with 13 years my senior had a sweet 68 firebird blue. What an evil sounding machine.....My school bus always passed this blue 69 Roadrunner...I knew one day my first car would have to be one of these beasts....Being the dork I am, I read up on them. Once 16, I started going to cruises and the GTO just popped right out at me...the song obviously helped.
I chose the 68 because i liked the styling, my speed shop friend owned one and showed me teh ins and outs of his, and to honor my mom's cousin who fought in Vietnam in 1968. I searched for 10 years for my gto, and landed a 68 HO 4-speed car that I am gathering parts for. I bought the car before I even drove one LOL. In fact the only person to "ride" in my gto is my husky when I pushed it into the garage
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