“When the Beach Boys’ song ‘409’ was released as a B-side of the single ‘Surfin’ Safari’ in June 1962, I was 18 and had just graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas,” Dave Miller, owner of this time-honored ’61 Chevy, says. “I was already versed in 409 lore from reading and re-reading car magazines, like Hot Rod and Car Craft, plus I had watched 409s street racing and paring off at the humble Kaw Valley Dragway.”
A quick backstory on Dave reveals him leaving Topeka and heading west on Route 66 to attended college at USC in Los Angeles in the fall of 1965. Dave fell in love with SoCal, and after college he decided to plant roots in the Golden State. Throughout his time on the West Coast, that college education led to him working as
