They just grew on me. Before it was GTOs, it was convertible LeMans'es'es. Before it was convertible LeMans'es'es, it was convertible Firebirds'es'es.
I was about 6 when we moved into a neighborhood across from a green 67 or 68 convert bird--white interior with a white top and chrome luggage rack. I remember a white stripe on the car and somethings saying HO or similar. That was the beginning.
Then my dad had a roommate (divorce, not gay-as far as I know
) with a 65ish Catalina that still had the plastic bumpy seat cover in it. The three of us kids would go sliding across the back seat everytime dad took a corner.
It was a decade after buying my '69 convertible LeMans that I let the pressure get to me from the people looking down their nose a lowly LeMans. So I bought several crappy GTOs and am presently letting them rot.