IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED, there’s recently been a definite shift in the muscle machine mentality. For years, nearly all of us held our muscle-car-era rides in high esteem, restoring them, nurturing them, preserving them, and collecting them. What they represented were some of the best times many of us ever experienced, and a blip on the continuum of time that we’d never see again.
As baby boomers, we were young, ambitious, and impatient. The world was ours for the taking, and our powerful, flashy steel machines took us just about anywhere we wanted to go. Decades later, we are still infatuated with them.
During the ’80s, the muscle car movement grew in size and significance, with the focus on preserving them in factory-fresh condition. But to what end? Many simply…