1979.....When I began driving in high school one of the older classmates that lived down the street from me had a beautiful white 1970 GTO 455. I thought that car was the coolest! I remember the "455 CID" decals most of all. Most of the high school "hot cars" were Camaro's, Firebird's, Duster's, Cuda's and Mustang's, but his car in my opinion was the best looking and sounding car of them all. I had to have a GTO someday! Just next door to my high school was the main school district offices and parked in the lot every day was a real nice 1969 GTO that an older lady drove. I left a few notes on the car asking if it might be for sale with never a reply. One day while driving down one of the main streets in the same area I saw the same GTO parked in the garage of a house facing the street. Now I knew where the car lived!!! I stopped one day to ask again if it might be for sale and the spoke to the original owners for a while. They weren't ready to sell it, but about three years later after several more attempts and them buying a brand new car, they finally gave in. I ended up painting the car black a year or so later, added some options and had a lot of fun with it! Many more GTO's were to follow after owning that one. I was hooked!
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