JFK Jr bought a GTO to help his image with his "George" magazine audience

Jim Wangers and Steve Parker tried to help John F. Kennedy Jr,. pick his own classic GTO in Los Angeles. JFK Jr., had heard GTOs were all the rage, and thought owning one might be fun, but in the end (and after visiting the Petersen Automotive Museum that same afternoon and meeting HOT ROD, MOTOR TREND and GUNS AND AMMO magazines creator and museum founder Robert E. Petersen, publisher-to-publisher), Kennedy (and his then-fiancee') said no to a GTO, and Wangers still thinks it was because the car's sheer unbridled horsepower scared him on a test drive.

John returned to the East Coast and bought a 67 GTO convertible with an automatic