Sure, some of it can be chalked up to special circumstances that surrounded those vehicles, but the odd part is I can remember noticing random ones that I liked on the street, when I was very young, before I knew what they were. I retained enough visual details that when I happened to learn what the car was years later, I then recalled the specific one I couldn't identify as a kid…weird, huh? I remember debating with my father when I was small child over GTOs. …

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