“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