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Trials, Tribulations, and Second Thoughts

a bit repetitive, but it needs to be said again: since we first bought Project X for $250 back in 1965, its main reason for existing has been to act as a testbed for new hot rodding trends and technologies. There was a time when that was electronic ignitions and EFI, but it’s 2021, and just as Smitty explained in , “everything changes…nothing stays the same.”

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