About 1963, standing behind the driver's seat looking over my dad's shoulder as he was doing 120 mph on the back roads of Wisconsin in the 1962 Catalina. The hills were lots of fun. Mom was nervous. They traded it in on a 68 Catalina, they first car they bought that actually had options. As a kid, I was amazed that you could get things like a radio and air conditioning.
Fast forward to about 1977 when I buy my Grand Am from a high school friend. About 1978 I walk into this little shop called H-O Racing while out in California on business, and my education about Pontiacs really begins. They were THE source for Pontiac technical information and performance parts. I told them I had come all the way from Muncie, IN (where I lived at the time) and they were nice enough to give me a tour.
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