Hemmings Muscle Machines

Learning to Turn

“West Coast car mags would feature modified muscle cars that were referred to as ‘canyon carvers’”

In much the same way I can still remember the first time I felt the brutal acceleration of a hotrodded muscle car (it was the neighbor’s ’70 Duster 340 when I was about 8 years old), I can also recall the first time I felt the lateral force of a hard-cornering car being pushed through a turn.

In that second instance, the car was an MGB, which makes sense as

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