Can Muscle Cars Really Fly?
Matthew Porter’s Photographs of an American Symbol Conjure Dreamlike Worlds
Muscle cars are a quintessential American symbol: fast, powerful, and entirely impractical. But perhaps it’s their impracticability that makes these gas-guzzling, aggressively loud vehicles coveted by so many. Having a muscle car often meant that not only had you made it, but you could afford to have a second vehicle merely for pleasure. And what is more pleasurable than going from zero to 60 in 5.8 seconds and catching air as you do it?
Matthew Porter’s photographs of airborne vintage muscle cars, collected and accompanied by an essay by Rachel Kushner …
