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One of the Significant Seventy-Five

When the calendar changed from the sixties to the seventies, most hot rodders were busy looking for good fenders and cowl lights to put on their resto-rods. They had figured out that a small-block Chevy fit between the frame rails pretty well and that radial tires were probably here to stay. Some

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