DAYS OF THUNDER

IT WAS A TIME of big targets and brave words. You needed muscle to get things done back in the day. Muscle put two blokes named Neil and Buzz on the moon in 1969. Apollo 11’s Saturn V rocket generated a stupendous 160 million horsepower (no torque or quarter mile figures available) and reached a speed of 40,000km/h. America’s missile arsenal packed enough muscle to obliterate everything with a heartbeat and did its thing to keep the Commies on ice during the Cold War.

And on American streets, muscle was what you needed to show that you had, well …