By then, I had most of the easy to find Hot Wheels cars and track and had built most of the cool models, etc. Mom drove a V8 Barracuda with the push button transmission. Both my sisters were in college and all their boy friends and girl friends had or drove cool cars. It was 1969. How could you not be a motorhead?
I remember the day the mom of the guy my sister married got a brand new Daytona Charger. We all rode our bikes over to check it out. It was easily the coolest car anyone had ever seen.
It looks a bit dated now, but I still remember seeing that first one.
I have a very similar memory
Although from a Ford family -Dad/relatives worked there-
I will never forget my uncle pulling into our driveway with a brand-new, Lime Green 1970 Roadrunner... hitting the horn ‘Mneep mneep’ as he turned onto the apron
AWESOME