Frank,
Same here. My friends and I started going to the CC Nats with my GTO (pictured) in Springfield, IL in about 1982 or 1983. For the first few my car was the only one for our group to go. Later years, we went to the Nats and the Nats East in Watkins Glen, Syracuse, St Louis, Englishtown with other cars as well as mine. All from the South Jersey/Philadelphia area. I even remember one year we all met at the PA turnpike in Bristol PA and "we had ourselves a convoy" with about 10 cars!
As you put it, great times to long remember.
