The Legendary Muscle Car
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Author | : Jim Glastonbury |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0785834796 |
Look into this fascinating book to discover the intoxicating world of muscle cars. Includes information on models, facts, and other interesting information on America's pride and joy.
Author | : Randy Leffingwell Darwin Holmstrom |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
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ISBN | : 1610583051 |
Author | : Mark Holmes |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2012-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1448892163 |
The Chevrolet Corvette; the Dodge Coronet; the Ford GTthey're names that send a shiver down the spine of true car enthusiasts. With big V8 engines crammed into mid-sized shells, they ripped up the roads on their way out of Detroit as they roared onto the market and into the awaiting arms of the power-hungry public. Readers discover which is the most powerful muscle car ever made and what nearly led to their extinction in the '70s, as well as learning which of their 21st century descendants should be purchased today. Readers discover all this and more with beautifully laid-out, detailed profiles of the best muscle carstheir facts, stats, and great stories from behind the scenes.
Author | : Jim Glastonbury |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780785820093 |
A muscle car is not a piece of Italian exotica, a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, cars which are just too complex and too specialized; nor is it a German Porsche, which is too efficient and too clever by half; nor yet a classic British sports car, a Morgan, TVR or Jaguar, which could never be regarded as fitting the bill. Sports cars, by and large, are not muscle cars, with two notable exceptions: the legendary AC Cobra of the 1960s, and the Dodge Viper of the 1990s. These followed the muscle car creed of back-to basics raw power. In effect, muscle cars always were, and always will be, a quintessentially North American phenomenon. The basic concept is something like this: take a mid-sized American sedan, nothing complex, upmarket or fancy, in fact the son of car one would use to collect the groceries in any American town on any day of the week; add the biggest, raunchiest V8 that it is possible to squeeze under the hood; and there it is. The muscle car concept really is as simple as that.
Author | : Joe Oldham |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-05-22 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0760358184 |
The All-American Muscle Car provides the ultimate hands-on history of the American Muscle car and where it is now -- Mustangs, Camaros, 'Cudas, Challengers, you name it. When John Z. DeLorean and his cadre of enthusiastic rule benders took it upon themselves to bolt Pontiac's hottest engine into a mid-sized Tempest, disobeying orders from the top of General Motors food chain, they created something that should not have been, and will never be again: the muscle car. The resulting GTO spearheaded a new breed of performance car aimed at a new breed of buyer: the baby boom generation, tens of millions of young customers entering the market each year. The All-American Muscle Car: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Detroit's Greatest Performance Cars tells the story of these brutal performance machines through the words of muscle-car icons like Jim Wangers, the man who marketed DeLorean's thuggish invention, Joe Oldham, a legendary automotive journalist who tested these cars when they first came off the production line, often via illegal street racing, and classic-car broker Colin Comer, who has been instrumental in restoring some of the most iconic (and valuable) muscle cars. Top muscle car experts like Randy Leffingwell and David Newhardt tell other facets of the muscle-car story, like the pony-car wars between the Mustang, Camaro, 'Cuda, and Challenger; the ultra-high performance dealer specials; and the rebirth of the modern muscle car. All told, this book provides the ultimate hands-on history of these most American of cars.
Author | : Bruce LaFontaine |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2001-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780486418636 |
Expertly rendered illustrations of fast, flashy, and powerful sports cars, among them the 1962 Ford Thunderbird, 1964 Corvette Stingray, 1968 Chevy Impala SS427, 1969 Camaro Z-28, 1970 Ford Torino Fastback, 1971 Mustang Boss 351, 1974 Firebird Trans-Am, and 37 others. For coloring book enthusiasts and "muscle car" fans.
Author | : David Newhardt |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-05-19 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1610587553 |
“Just what is a Muscle Car?” Road Test magazine asked in June 1967. The answer: “Exactly what the name implies. It is a product of the American car industry adhering to the hot rodder’s philosophy of taking a small car and putting a BIG engine in it. . . . The Muscle Car is Charles Atlas kicking sand in the face of the 98 horsepower weakling.” Unconcerned with such trivial details as comfort and handling, the vintage American muscle car was built for straight-line speed and quickly became the ride of choice for power-hungry racers and serious gearheads. In a country where performance was measured in brute force, a quarter mile at a time, the muscle car was the perfect machine. In the intervening years, these down-and-dirty, high-performing beauties have earned their place in the automotive pantheon. As prized by collectors and aficionados as they are by denizens of garages and drag strips, classic muscle cars now fetch upwards of a million dollars at auctions and feature in any story of America’s automotive glory days. The icons of muscle car art—including Camaro and Chevelle SS, the Hemi and 440-6 ’Cuda, Challenger, Roadrunner, Super Bee, GTX, Super Bird, Daytona Charger, Super Cobra Jet and Boss Mustang, Talladega Torino, Buick GSX and W30 Oldsmobile 442, and AMX Javelin—are all here, on full display in this lavishly illustrated volume, each described in a detailed essay followed by a gallery of portraits and special gatefold presentations that capture the art of the muscle car at its finest.
Author | : Mike Mueller |
Publisher | : Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2017-05-12 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 076035233X |
"The Complete Book of Classic Chevy Muscle Cars covers the primary muscle and performance cars produced by Chevrolet in the 60s and 70s, such as the Camaro and Malibu"--
Author | : Donald Farr |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0760360251 |
More than Mustang and Cougar. Though the Mustang remains Ford’s most famous muscle car, the company had been building muscle cars since it introduced the sleek Fairlane and Galaxie models with optional 390 cubic-inch big-block V-8 engines in 1961. These cars were part of Ford’s Total Performance program, which tested cars in the crucible of racing at drag strips, oval circuits, European rally events, and road courses, resulting in legendary muscle cars like the Shelby Mustang, Boss 302 and 429 Mustangs, Mercury Cougar, Cyclone GT, and Spoiler. The Complete Book of Classic Ford and Mercury Muscle Cars covers all of Ford Motor Company’s high-performance muscle cars from the early 1960s to 1973. It’s the bible of muscle every disciple of Ford performance needs.
Author | : Peter Henshaw |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780785835615 |
After more than 46 years Mustang has survived and flourished by staying true to its roots. If one looks at a 2011 Mustang alongside a 1964 1/2 model, there is no doubt of the car’s lineage. It is this focus that keeps the car going from strength to strength in terms of appeal, style, popularity and sales. This is its story, from the prototypes of the sixties, seventies and eighties to the present day. The runaway success of the Mustang, when it was launched in 1964, kicked off the pony-car revolution and led to the fearsome Shelby and racing Mustangs and the downsized Mustang II of the 1970s, a courageous attempt to recapture the original concept of the car as both compact and sporty. Then there was the revival of V8 Mustang power in the 1980s and the advent of the current curvaceous Mustang with its exotic overhead-cam V8 engine. Few cars have been so successful and long-lived and few have inspired such loyalty and affection. Mustang is performance personified. Whether it be a 1960s classic or its modern-day counterpart, the Mustang is designed for power, speed, and style.