Boy does this bring back a memory! Went to my senior prom with my now ex-wife when I had mine. Candy apple red, white vinyl seats, raised white letter tires, it was just a beautiful car.
The day before we went to my senior prom I spent hours and hours waxing her. (The car, not the ex. Although come to think of it waxcking her would've been a good thing...)
Anyway, the morning of prom my parents woke me up laughing telling me to go look at my car. Now ex-wife wrote "I love you" in big letters on the hood, trunk and doors. Right in the dew that had settled on the car overnight and through the five coats of wax I'd lovingly and laboriously applied the day before.
Sold it because it got 8 miles per gallon and I was stupid enough to think that was a good reason. I still look online for this or maybe a 1970.
I'm not sure what mine was rated at back in those days, I can tell you that I went through lots of rear tires with it though. Something about having all that torque at the low end was just so damn ................ FUN!!
If you think 8mpg was bad, I had a 66 Cadillac Calais with a 500+ cubic inch V-8 under the hood that the gas gauge dropped every time I hit the gas pedal.
BTW, if you think 8mpg was bad, guess what this got:
That's not a picture of the one I had, it is however the same year, make, model, color, rear fender skirts, etc. I bought her for $250 from the original owner. Restored the interior, got the original AC and AM Tube Radio working again, sanded the quarter-sized surface rust spot off the drivers side fender skirt and had her repainted the original color (above.) Mechanically she needed a new flywheel, starter, hoses, belts, tune-up, valve cover gaskets, transmission seals and a valve job and I think that was it. She ran like a purring kitten. Soooooo smoooooooth. The interior of that car was so big you could raise a family in one.
It's funny, Barret-Jackson has one just like my old one for sale. As much as I'd love to have that car back, I have my eyes (and heart) set on a '72 Stingray now that my divorce is over and everything's settled. Always wanted one and by God I'm gonna get one before I die.