With all the emphasis on g-machines, 17-inch wheels and making vintage cars handle like new ones, sometimes it's easy to lose sight of the street-strip cars that still make up a huge portion-perhaps ...

It all started a couple of years ago when I ran across a pretty solid '60 Catalina at a car show I was covering up in Colorado. At the time my wife, Candy, had tired of the uncompromising buggy-sprung ...