NOVEMBER 2019 II CHEVY HIGH PERFORMANCE 13
★It doesn’t matter where you live. Hot cars will always be there; most often in places you’d have
a hard time imagining. Certainly, the hot rod culture began here in the prized former colony of the
British Empire. There was revolution, you’ll remember, a lot of the war waged by the locals to be shed
of taxation without representation, repression, and myriad other indignities.
Well, all that’s been mostly
forgotten now, but American muscle
cars still blare and bleat and have
not been forgotten. Some astute UK
youngsters have lusted after Detroit
iron since they were old enough to get
behind the wheel, any wheel. Marc
Lamude is one of them. He didn’t
want a stocker, either. He craved
something modified. His car disease
began with a ’73 Super Duty Trans
Am he saw sitting on someone’s drive