The new golden age of the automobile

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...

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