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[Howard Ritter]

And boy does THAT bring back memories! A ’67 GTO—my first new car, right after college graduation just before I went on active duty with the USAF. Ordered it custom built from the local dealer and drove it off the lot only three weeks later! Mariner Turquoise, black vinyl top, black interior, 400 CID engine, 4-bbl carb, 360 hp, 4 on the floor, AM-FM, Rally II wheels with red-line sidewall tires, tinted windshield. No air conditioning. Loved that car, more than the one I traded it in on four years later. Shoulda woulda. My bucket list includes getting at least to drive one again.

I put a set of those newfangled quartz-iodine bulbs in the headlights of the GTO’s successor, a ’71 911, and startled my friends with how bright they were and with their slightly violet tinge from the iodine. And I put Lucas flamethrowers on the hood of the GTO’s second successor, another 911. Now the LED high beams of my BMW M6 put all of them in the shade.

—howard


> On Aug 25, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
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> That brings back memories.  When I was dating my now-wife, she didn't know how to drive (military brat).  So, I was the instructor in my new 1967 Pontiac GTO.  Of course, I had replaced the lower lamps with Lucas landing lights.  It was interesting when the trooper testing her told her to turn on her headlamps and then brights...major eye roll, but he was a brother.
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> On 8/25/2015 11:48 AM, Robert Baron wrote: