Garden & Gun

Va-Va-Vroom!

On a sunny spring day, Chris Leigh-Jones takes his 1933 Alfa Romeo 8c Monza for a spin. Stretches of new asphalt thread through the community of Palmetto Bluff, a twenty-thousand-acre expanse of estuaries and woodlands in coastal Bluffton, South Carolina. Leigh-Jones fits snugly in the low-slung body of the bullet-like classic, his short hair to the wind, no cap, no goggles, working the center

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