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Contents: 1972 Plymouth GTX-R (The injected-wedge canyon racer Chrysler didn’t build finally became reality); Got $25K? (Twenty-five very opinionated cognoscenti tell you what’s a smart $25,000 investment); 1965 Shelby G.T.350S (Bankruptcy avoidancce tactics: Don’t get reamed for a real one, build one just as good); 1973 Chevrolet Vega (The flip-top Vega Funny Car that launched a thousand fantasies as Jim Liberman staged it); 2004 Ford Focus SVT (Getting real and raucous with Ford’s vest-pocket, $18,000 cardiac case study); 1977 Z28 vs, 1978 Trans Am (They’re not disco-era dinosaurs, GM ponies had distinct personalities, of a sort); 1963 1/2 Mercury Comet (When the storied S-22 treatment was bestowed o a surprisingly lithe compact hardtop); Craig Jackson (Prognostications on tomorrow’s tumultous muscle market by one of industry’s sharpest); Road Course Ponchos (The lowdown on Pontiac’s tepid, torturous trip through the Tran-Am series) Technical Reviews – Buick Gran Sport Buyer’s Guide (Evaluating nearly forgotten 1973 and 1974 coupes from the dawn of Colonnade styling); 1968 Plymouth Road Runner (The insipirational story of a lady who overcame adversity to restore a landmark Mopar); 1970 Chevrolet Nova (A hand-me-down, Stovebolt-powered Nova that’s a nitrous-juiced terror) Columns – Painting Cars (With paint stuck under his fingernails, editor Lentinello gives some useful painting advise); Production Line (Be a fly on the wall while the industry contemplates its latest ripper notions); Muscleaneous (Get down with the pound-the-ground crowd now that spring’s back around); Speedobilia (Buy your own Father’s Day gifts; at least you won’t surreptitously return these); Mini Muscle (Ethan Allen can’t decorate your digs as nicely as these metal masters); Backfire (Not even Haight-Ashbury in the summer of 1967 comes close to this lovefest); On Hallowed Ground (Ray Bohacz tells tales of American pride at Ford’s fabled River Rouge assembly plant); Storrow Drive Sleeper (Ken Gross recalls tearing up the Brahmins in a tank-like Ford that was anything but); Round And Black (Hib Halverson clues you in on the mysteries of tread patterns, aspect ratios and inflation); Go-Fast Goodies (Open wallet, pull out plastic, dial customer service, get respect); Hot Rod Hero (Ed Eaton, the lawman who brought drag-racing order to the Wild East); Vintage Racers (A big pre-war Chevy prairie schooner that stormed across the Bonneville Salt Flats); Auction Auction (Who’s bidding what for which favorite trapping of their youth); Ask Ray (From the winds of northwestern New Jersey comes this month’s ration of sagacity); Swap Meet (Hallelujah! A treatise on disc-brake conversions that doesn’t flagrantly plug an advertiser); Cruisin’ And Racin’ (So the buds are starting to pop; quit being a mope and start burning some rubber); Trickle-Down Muscle (How the torch of torque is being passed to the next generation)
Issue: June 2004
Condition: Very Good