Flooring the accelerator of Donny Krieger’s ‘69 SS Chevelle was one of the great thrills of my life.
I was only 15 when I slammed the Chevelle’s four-speed Hurst shifter into second and stomped on the gas. Its monster 396 V-8 let out a nasty growl as the nose of the car jumped up and the tires screeched.
Big V-8s are in the news again.
The Trump administration recently eliminated large fi...