“Duster,” a new action series from JJ Abrams and LaToya Morgan on MAX, stars a mighty muscle car of the ‘70s, the chariot of a mafia getaway driver who is being targeted by the FBI.

Josh Holloway of “Lost” is driver Jim Ellis, who wants nothing to do with Rachel Hilson’s Nina, the federal agency’s first Black female Special Agent.

“When ‘Duster’ begins,” Hilson, 29, said in a Zoom interview, “I’m a young woman fresh out of Quantico and headed to Phoenix to take down the man I believe killed my father.

“I’ve got quite the agenda and I soon find who might be my informant, Jim Ellis. That begins our relationship which is initially antagonistic. But I’m trying to show him he’s got some skin in this game too — and that’s where we end up merging, finding common ground. We both want to get to the truth about our two beloved family members’ death.”

Youthful and determined, Nina must navigate a hostile office. Her youth, Hilson said, “was key to her character in helping take this crime syndicate down. She doesn’t adhere to rules, she makes them. She comes in as this unstoppable force against an immovable object which is Josh.

“I’ve not really gotten to play many overt badasses,” said Hilson of her roles in the teen drama “Love, Victor” and the “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” sports series.

“Nina’s just so dynamic and complex, with this rawness from her childhood that’s like a fuel for her drive and tenacity. I was excited to take that on.

“Arizona in 1972 is a whole cornucopia of things politically and culturally. It’s right off the civil rights movement and it was clever to navigate this by a young Black woman in this unlikely environment, which is one of the coolest things about this project.”

Strictly speaking, there’s a bit of “creative liberty” here for, as Hilson discovered, “Actually Sylvia Mathis is the first Black woman who joined in 1976.

“In 1972 they weren’t allowed to join as Special Agents. It was only white women. This was when (FBI Director J. Edgar) Hoover died and they decided to open it up a bit.

“So Nina is a pioneer in a sense. She represents the Black Special Agent pioneers of the ‘70s, ‘80s, and even the ‘90s because it’s still a small number of Black women who have served in the Bureau.”

What Hilson realized about Nina, “She’s there to do her job and works with mostly white men. But she realizes by the end that she can be a part of this organization, this institution, and in a different way she can make it potentially better.”

“Duster” streams on MAX