RE: Would someone please
There is NO WAY I could EVER re-live it for you, the time, the era, the GTO. The biggest and most successful marketing blitz ever to hit America! Smack in the middle of the Baby Boomer's 18th year, the GTO took the nation by storm, there was GTO shoes from Thomm McCan, GTO cigarettes, GTO this & GTO that! 2 Songs, GTO by Ronnie & the Daytonas and My Little GTO by Jan & Dean took over the air waves over & over again, seemingly every Summer from 1966 thru 1969. Only the original Mustang 1964.5-1967 ever topped it, and not by much!
It was a different time & a different place. Nobody would dare to buy a "Foreign Car" ~ Patriotism was at an all time high, excepting Viet Nam were 1,000s of young people did not wanna go. Incomes had kept ahead of inflation, unemployment was ultra low as products were made here in the states, and adults had more discressionary income.
It was indeed, a great time to grow in in an upper middle class suburban enviornment among all the GTOs!