Classic American

Posh muscle – Buick GS

Back in the Sixties and early Seventies it wasn’t uncommon for teenage boys (and possibly some girls!) to go hang out at their local car dealerships and groove on the far out and totally awesome muscle cars. They’d steal brochures, sit in the cars on the forecourt, annoy the salesmen … and dream of owning and driving these incredible machines. Typically they might go

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