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Contents: 1964 Oldsmobile F-85 4-4-2 (In the beginning, the great performance Olds was based on a police package); 1973 De Tomaso Pantera GTS (A stout Ford Cleveland small-block gets blended into a soulful Italian GT Mangia!); 1967 AMC Rebel 770 (According to the engineer who ran the project, this was the Rebel Machine’s progenitor); Ford vs. Buick (A 1970 Torino Cobra squares off against a 1972 Buick GS on the mean streets of Rhode Island); Crossing Generation (Willie Stroppe, who’s lived “Total Performance” through a lifetime of Ford competition); 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle Funny Car (The FXers kept dipping the bodies, then Bruce Larson had the brilliant idea to use fiberglass); Trans-Am Cougars (Mercury wasn’t suposed to win the 1967 Trans-Am title, but that’s nearly what happened) Technical Reviews – Bolt-On Power! (A review of equipment that can easily make your GM A-body a lot stronger); Restoration Profile (A rare 1971 Plymouth Sport Fury GT, with complex stripes); 1966-1967 Pontiac GTO Buyer’s Guide (A close look at two remarkably different cars from successive model years); Seal It The Right Way (Confused by the welter of goop-laden tubes on the shelf? Here’s Sealants 101) Columns – After The Wake (So, what’s going to happen to your megabuck mucle car when you’re finally in the ground?); Production Line (A better “new GTO,” a GT successor, and a Corvette ad blitz that flopped embarrassingly); Muscleaneous (Retro cars just keep on rolling, and a listing of our theme issues for 2005); Speedobilia (An inexpensive muscle history, an even cheaper T-shirt, and a vital Buick Turbo guide); Mini Muscle (Diecast replicas to intrigue fans of anniversary Corvettes, Mustangs and big-block Mopars); Comparative Virtues (Jeff Koch wonders, if a Hemi Road Rummer faced off against a CTS-V, who’d be the winner?); Affordable Muscle (A Ken Gross essay on the democratization of high performance following World War II); The Brake Shudder Syndrome (Hib Halverston rwlla you qhy ewxwnr GM hi-po cars love to eat their brakes prematurely); Go-Fast Goodies (Pieces to dampen crank vibration, aid high-rpm operation and pull in your satellite stations); Hot Rod Hero (Doc Watson, the guy who invented the vaunted Hurst/Olds); Vintage Racers (The sole big-block 427 Shelby Cobra build specifically for drag racing); Weekend Warriors (A Manhattan banker spends his playtime racing a 12-second ’69 Charger); Monterrey, 2004 (All the good, and rarely cheap, performance cars offered in the shadow of Pebble Beach); Auction News (What experienced auction-goers have in their bag of tricks, and two potential Mopar bargains); Ask Ray (The sage from the New Jersey highlands weighs in with solutions to complex problems); Swap Meet (Jim O’Clair maps out the vagaries of the Carter AFB four-barrel, along with its accessories); Cruisin’ & Racing (Coast to coast, we lay out the venues where you can go lay down some sticky rubber); Stand Up And Be Counted (Don’t like how politicians trash older cars? Jim McGowan says, “You have the power”)
Issue: November 2004
Condition: Very Good