So, what were you driving in 1971? If you ran with the unwashed masses in automotive circles, you were motoring in what the Feds wanted: a small-engined, small-bodied, weak-kneed econcocar. A new vehicle mindset was in vogue, and that meant the big bad boy cars of the glorious Sixties were passe. Big blocks?
Massive torque? Drop-dead styling? Sorry. By the time the government and insurance giants put the clamps on the so-called gas guzzlers, the American automotive world had buckled under in the name of economy and ugly, wide-load bumpers that resembled I-beams.
There were, however, some holdouts — mavericks
