Some people take the “driver” in the AACA’s Driver Participation Class very seriously.
“My mechanic said, ‘David, if you drive it at highway speeds, you’re going to blow it up,’” recalled David House, the owner of the 1938 Buick Model 47 Special shown here. “I said, ‘OK.’ So I blew it up and then we had to figure out what to do next.”
Blowing it up hadn’t been part of the plan when he’d bought the Buick in 2015. In fact, a Special hadn’t been part of the plan, either. House had been looking for a car built between 1934 and 1939 because he liked the
