Hemmings Muscle Machines

BALANCE OF POWER

MUSCLE CARS HAVE ALWAYS been about speed — then and now. Brute power, boiling the hides, giving it all from stoplight to stoplight. And for many of us, getting there quicker (or quickest) means making changes. Swapping parts, dropping weight, gaining grunt. Cams, gears, headers. For those who hot-rodded ’30s cars in the ’50s, it

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