Ralph Nader had convinced the public that cars were essentially as deadly as a loaded gun in the hands of a psychopath with his self-proclaimed expose titled Unsafe at Any Speed leading every red blooded car enthusiast to believe the performance machines they loved would be castrated and turned into boring, appliance-like econoboxes. The year was 1971, the space race was reaching new heights, the EPA was nothing but an overzealous fledgling haphazardly wielding the power of the Clean Air Act, and the Vietnam War was well underway as protests about anything and everything reached a fever pitch across America.
