KENOSHA’S GT

IF YOU BELIEVE THE ROSY, contemporary accounts of automotive history during the latter half of the Sixties, you might think every kid coming of age during that time was able to get into the seat of a hot new car, tricked out with the top-dog big-block V-8, a four-speed, and a locked differential to send those gobs of torque to the pavement, shredding a fat pair of Wide Ovals in the process.

This kind of gearhead utopia did indeed exist, but the reality of the era has been padded over the intervening decades. As veteran owners and aficionados can attest, the muscular domestic market products of that time were just as diverse as their eligible buyers, and in truth, not everyone had a burning desire to own one of the pinnacle muscle cars that have since become icons. Some harbored ambitions of acquiring a sleek sports touring car —