There are a lot of reasons to buy a car. Sometimes, and probably not surprisingly, it’s for the engine, like the 426 Hemi in my 1966 Dodge Coronet. It doesn’t stop or go round corners but back in the day that 425 horsepower (really closer to 500 but the factory advertised it as lower for insurance purposes) was the most powerful muscle car engine you could buy in the 1960s.
Sometimes – and equally as obviously – it’s for the style, like
