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70 Years Young However, I have a question about the
Happy 70th anniversary! MotorTrend piece on the 1968 GTO (page 37). The text
has been a big influence in my life while mentions your 1968 review and that “our
nurturing my lifelong interest in cars. four-speed automatic tester” did 0–60 in
A marginal grade school student 7.3 seconds while “our Hurst four-speed
of English and grammar, my reading manual tester” with Ram-Air did it in 6.5.
and vocabulary were honed instead by Clearly, the article notes the results
consuming MT issues beginning in 1961 Reader on location for two different test cars, an automatic
at age 10, when my dad brought home an This month’s reader on location is and a manual. Thus, the results had to
Milt Hazzard of Woodlawn, Maryland.
issue borrowed from a car nut coworker. I be from the 1968 review because you
Here’s what he had to say: “On my
subsequently had an incentive to visit the certainly didn’t have two GTOs to review
September–October trip to Egypt,
library and have something to do while for the 2019 issue: The 2019 article
I took along the September copy of
my mom shopped at the supermarket. MotorTrend so I could read and have notes a single 1968 GTO borrowed from
At age 16 I hoodwinked my dad into a picture of the new C8 Corvette Original Parts Group.
purchasing a new ’67 GTO, after pointing handy; I plan to order one as soon as I’m sure you see the problem: The
out for several years how great the styling my dealer starts taking orders. Here Turbo Hydro-matic automatic “back in
of the Le Mans was. He wasn’t aware I am at the Giza pyramids, where a the day,” as the saying goes, was of course
there was a beast variant and thankfully friend (who didn’t know how to use a three-speed automatic transmission.
didn’t notice the GTO badge! (About two my camera) took this picture.” As Bob Seger would say, “Lord, I
months after buying it, he would come remember ...”
home from work bragging about what car Your anniversary issue, especially the Keith Dolan
he blew away driving home.) story based on prior Car of the Year Brooklyn, New York
The following year the ’68 GTO winners, was probably the best issue MT You’re correct that the numbers come
was named Car of the Year, and I was ever put out, and I’ve been a reader since directly from the car’s 1968 Car of the Year
ecstatic—so much so that I wrote my first 1972. (It was not easy hiding it from the feature. Second, good catch on the trans-
letter to the editor, and it was published! nuns and brothers when I was supposed mission—the GTO’s sole automatic option
I never forgot the rush of recognition. to be learning what they were teaching.) was a three-speed, not a four.—Ed.
Through adulthood, I found satisfac-
tion in seeing my opinion expressed on
a grand scale. Over time I developed a
love of writing to the point of creating
.
a writing/editing business and then a Trust ..V1 earns it one ambush at a time.
website about the future.
If it were not for MotorTrend, I’m
certain my life would have been less rich
and fulfilling.
Congratulations on your fabulous Glenna R.,
legacy, and happy 70th. Thank you, MT !
John Herman Dallas, TX
Charleston, South Carolina
I have just received my September issue
and found of special interest the article “ Love the arrows! Where’s
on the Kurtis Sport Car. When I was in the radar? They tell me
junior high school a friend of mine’s dad Ahead
had a new Muntz Jet, and I really knew every time. A detector
very little about the origin of Muntz or
the connection to Kurtis, so that was just without the arrows is like Beside
neat to see. I was especially taken by the
comment about “everybody present at a car without headlights. ”
MT ’s birth has packed their desks and
relocated to that great printing press in Behind
the sky.” I’m still around and have been
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