It Started with Hot Wheels

Twenty-seven-year-old engineer Quan Tran got a thrill from racing Hot Wheels as a kid, but he says cars “really became an obsession when I started driving at age 16.” When it came time to buy his first vehicle, Tran recalled how much his father had loved the Pontiac Firebird he’d owned years earlier. “That’s what made me want to get an old American muscle car, so I could be cool like my dad,” he says with a chuckle. Instead, Tran inherited the antithesis of a thundering, high-performance sports

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