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.