If you have one car from the 60's, what would it be?

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67-69 Plymouth Barracuda 383

Nice car. Mine's a 340.
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Beetles are awesome. Everyone I knew with a VW bus had forever mechanical issues, including my late Grandmother (she had the VW bus Westfield camper). On a good VW bus experience, my Grandmother's VW bus transported my 1970's era Yamaha 80 cc motorcycle from my cousins' to me.
One of my psychology profs drove a 1970ish VW bus. He was bearded, wore old jeans and denim shirts, talked of exploring the limits of human consciousness, and drank a lot. The VW suited him perfectly.

I moved away but visited a couple of years later. A big new Plymouth wagon had replaced the VW. He said "Two engines and three transmissions in a hundred thousand miles - it got expensive to maintain the image".
 
If I had to be limited to one car that I previously owned from that era, I guess it would be the '68 Pontiac GTO.

Other 60's cars that I drove or saw, would be:
The new '67 Corvette roadster that a cousin owned. He allowed me to drive it at age 15 (no license) and taught me to use a manual trans.
The '63 or '64 AC Shelby Cobra that I saw for sale at a used foreign car lot in 1968. Asking price $6k, which I believe is what it sold for new.
The '62 Galaxie 406, 3-2 bbl. convertible that I saw in a Ford showroom.
The '64 Plymouth Sport Fury with 426 max wedge that I saw in a Chry/Plymouth showroom.
 
Is that a coating that covers your driveway ?
That's not my driveway. The picture was taken at the previous owner's place when I bought the car 13 years ago. As I recall, it was just asphalt. Maybe it needed sealing badly. It was a few hundred miles away and I haven't been back there.

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Here's an overhead view from Google. It looks the same.
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