Riff,
As a senior in High School, I sold a 67 Plymouth GTX to a buddy of mine so I could get a 70 Superbird.
So that Superbird was my High School car...what a blast.
That thing was my pride and joy. Since I don't live far from the Petty homeplace, and where the shop used to be, I took it down there and asked Richard Petty to autograph it for me. Not only did he gladly oblige, he ended up putting his signature on the vertical stabilizers (the uprights for the wing, lol), the owners manual, and various other paperwork in the car. I thought that was pretty neat.
After looking over the car a bit, he told me that this was the car that he himself had put about 500 miles on driving it around for a publicity tour. It had never been titled when I bought it, and it had a little over 500 miles on it at that time.
That car was very special to me, and as ugly as it was, at the time I thought it was the most beautiful car in the world. I was a fan of Richard Petty and Mopars so him signing it, and the fact that I had to buy all of my cars myself, made it something I was truly proud of.
Lee