When I was in the Marine Corps, those 68-69’s were known among us service trash as “Vietnam Cars”......you either bought one after getting back with your saved-up money; or if you were stupid enough, you used a reenlistment bonus to buy one, not thinking far enough ahead to realize that if you re-upped, your new toy was gonna sit for 13 months because you’d be headed right overseas.
Heh. Now I know why my cousin had a fastback Mustang of about that vintage! The personality of that BIG powerful Mustang with the racing stripe just didn’t fit my cousin.
She was a nurse in the Mekong Delta area.
LOL.
My dad was in the USMC and got home from Vietnam in 1967.
He promptly went out and bought a metallic blue 1968 Road Runner.
That car brought me home from the hospital as a newborn in 1971.