RACKING UP THE MILES
BE HONEST: HOW MANY MILES a year do you put on your vintage car? A few hundred? A couple of thousand? Or maybe it’s more like a hundred or less.
Everybody does their car thing their own way, but a few miles here and there to cruises and car shows wasn’t going to cut it for Tony and Karen Rousos. They wanted a driver. A muscle car with jump-in, hit-the-key, compromise-free performance that would turn heads at the cruises, but click off long-haul miles like a Kenworth.
They found it in a ’71 Camaro that Tony built for Karen. To date, they’ve racked up more than 30,000 miles on the car in only about four years. It’s practically the couple’s daily driver in the Michigan months that don’t
