Hemmings Classic Car

Back to the Future

“… I am thinking maybe I should get with the times and add an electric car to my collection.”

have spent a lot of time since my adolescence working on and restoring old internal combustion engine cars, and I have been immersed in the Southern California car culture from my earliest memories. My father fixed cars, too, when I was young, and I loved watching him and his motorhead friends do their magic. I also liked the smells of paint and gasoline. But most

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