Hot Rod’s Eric Dahlquist and the Heyday of Muscle Cars

Imagine cruising in a brand-new muscle car, freshly rolled off the assembly line, with the job of pushing it to its limits. That was the life of a car magazine writer in the heyday of muscle cars, like Eric Dahlquist from Hot Rod. Testing these beasts on mountain roads and dragstrips was all in a day’s work. It’s hard not to envy those days when every test drive was a first date with soon-to-be legends of the automotive world, all while having the coolest job on the planet.

A lot of the fun I get out of digging up old road tests for MCR is imagining what it must have been like to be a car magazine writer back in the glory days. That had to be the coolest job in the world, testing now iconic muscle cars when they were new cars with scant miles on them just waiting to be flogged over mountain roads and at the nearest dragstrip.

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