TOM PETERS VIVIDLY RECALLS THE FIRST TIME he went for a ride in the iconic American sports car.
“It was a 1968 coupe,” he says. “I caught a ride home in one on the way home from work one day, when I was a teenager.”
Tom was caddying at a Minnetonka, Minnesota, country club and says that, while brief, the encounter left a lasting impression.
“It was only about a mile or so in that car,” he says. “But the way I sat down in that interior, looking out over the long nose and arching front fenders — it all just burned into my brain. It was inspiring.”
More than just that first-year C3 burned into Tom’s young mind. The whole car culture of the Sixties and the muscle car era blossomed during his formative years, etching the design ethos of the time into the brain of a kid who got in trouble for sketching cars in
