It was a warm, sticky summer afternoon at Maryland’s Capitol Drag Raceway back in the mid-1970s. I was fresh out of high school when a ’63 Chevy II roared up into the staging lanes for a smoky stage.

Suspension technology has come a long way since the 1960s. The 1964-’72 Chevelle delivered exceptional ride quality and handling for its time because it was a body-on-frame vehicle in a field of unit ...