[MMARSH]

Funny I watched that a few days ago. I thought he was gonna break down in tears. I remember watching the video when he picked it up from the dealer...The car does sound good.

Only car that's the love of my life is my GTO. Not because it's the best driving car I've owned, it's certainly not the best handling or braking car I've had. It's not the most valuable car in a monetary sense that I've ever owned.

But, there is no other car that makes me feel the way driving the GTO does. That car takes me back in time. A time when our family, with my dad driving and my mom next to him and my sister and I sitting in the backseat went on family vacations. It takes me back to when I first learned to drive a stick shift. I'd watched my dad go thru the gears my whole life, I had mentally driven a 1000 miles and at 12, my father and I went for a drive one early Saturday morning and he pulled over and said "Your turn". I'll never forget that feeling. It takes me back to my first dates, my first drag race, my first discovery of some great driving music and even my first speeding ticket a couple months after I turned 16. (My parents never knew about that till much later)
For me it's more than a car, it's a real life time machine. It takes me back to great childhood memories, it takes me back to great teenage memories, memories of my time in the military, heck when I first joined the LASD, I would daily drive it to work. It's been a constant in every part of my life. Other cars will come and go, but the GTO is the only car that will always have a spot in the garage.