It used to be that the easiest way to tell a show car or a trailer queen from an actual runner was to look at the headers. Nice clean paint or flawless chrome meant that the engine had run a total of ...

Since the dawn of time, hot rodders have fought the rust-ugly effect of corrosive engine exhaust eating away their muffler-moly headers. I don't know how many cans of high-temp header paint I squirted ...