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I never really had a fascination with European cars - I just like cars.

However, if you read the buff magazines in the 1960s, magazines like <span style="font-style: italic">Car and Driver</span> had a European bias because the Europeans were building cars with overhead cams, disc brakes, taut suspensions, and the like. Meanwhile, American cars were underbraked and handled poorly, and their motors didn't push the edge of technology. Really, all they had going for them was style and horsepower . . . and the latter was in the minority of American cars since your basic 283 Impala was not much faster than some European sedans.