How did you get hooked on A-bodies?

My dad always had Mopars and growing up a buddy of mine bought a 69 Road Runner. At the time my favorite car was a 69 Chevelle S/S ,you know the yellow ones with the black stripes. Well another buddy of mine had that Chevelle and he always wanted to race the guy with the RR . Ricky owned the RR and was willing to race him any time he was ready . Finally oneday they went out on the interstate and the RR blew away the Chevelle . This went on for three more races and everytime the RR beat the Chevelle and the owner would never come out and say "Hey man you beat me". It was always this was wrong or this wasn't right and started thinking wow this car is pretty fast maybe my dad knows something. So my first car turned out to be a 69 B5 blue 4 speed Swinger with the white stripe. It was all stock except the Cragars and I was blowing people away with it. It was the best car I've ever owned . I was forced to sell it back in 86 and have missed it ever since. I do have a really nice 68 GT right now but I do still miss the B5 blue one.