American Muscle Cars 2024
American Muscle Cars 2024

Author: Editors of Motorbooks

Publisher:

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 0760384592

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Behold some of America’s most brutish performance machines in this stunning 16-month wall calendar. American Muscle Cars 2024 features more than a year’s worth of beautiful photography depicting brawny classic cars from the 1960s, 1970s, and today. With an additional spread that shows the months of September, October, November, and December 2023, followed by individual spreads for the months of 2024, this 12" × 12" wall calendar brings you 16 incredible months showcasing some of the rarest and most outrageous high-performance cars ever to explode onto the scene. Inside you’ll find powerful offerings from the Dodge, Plymouth, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Buick brands, including: 1969 Camaro SS 396 1971 Chevy El Camino SS 454 1970 Plymouth AAR ‘Cuda 2017 Dodge SRT Hellcat 2020 Camaro ZL1 1970 Plymouth Superbird 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner Hemi 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi 1970 LS6 Chevelle SS 454 1965 Pontiac GTO 1969 Buick Firebird Ram Air IV 1970 Buick Gran Sport Stage 1 1967 Dodge Coronet RT 440 Keep yourself on track while enjoying America’s fastest, rarest, and most glorious high-performance vehicles.

American Muscle Cars
American Muscle Cars

Author: Darwin Holmstrom

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2016-03-20

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0760350981

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This is the muscle car history to own--a richly illustrated chronicle of America's greatest high-performance cars, told from their 1960s beginning through the present day! In the 1960s, three incendiary ingredients--developing V-8 engine technology, a culture consumed by the need for speed, and 75 million baby boomers entering the auto market--exploded in the form of the factory muscle car. The resulting vehicles, brutal machines unlike any the world had seen before or will ever see again, defined the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll generation. American Muscle Cars chronicles this tumultuous period of American history through the primary tool Americans use to define themselves: their automobiles. From the street-racing hot rod culture that emerged following World War II through the new breed of muscle cars still emerging from Detroit today, this book brings to life the history of the American muscle car. When Pontiac's chief engineer, John Z. DeLorean, and his team bolted a big-inch engine into the division's intermediate chassis, they immediately invented the classic muscle car. In those 20 minutes it took Bill Collins and Russ Gee to bolt a 389 ci V-8 engine into a Tempest chassis they created the prototype for Pontiac's GTO--and changed the course of automotive history. From that moment on, American performance cars would never be the same. American Muscle Cars tells the story of the most desirable cars ever to come out of Detroit. It's a story of flat-out insanity told at full throttle and illustrated with beautiful photography.

Standard Guide to American Muscle Cars
Standard Guide to American Muscle Cars

Author: John Gunnell

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2005-06-28

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780873499880

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The world's most popular book of the mighty American cars of the 1960s and 70s is back and better than ever. Updated with more specs, more information and more color than ever before. &break;&break;This edition showcases more than 300 of Detroit's tire-twisting cars from Ford, Chevy, Dodge, AMC, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and more. Listings include a historical background, original factory specifications, available options, original pricing information and an updated price guide, with current values in sex condition grades. &break;&break;In this book, readers will find every type of high performance model from early full-size favorites like the 1961 Chevrolet Impala SS to muscle car heyday favorites like the 1968 Shelby Mustang GT 500KR. &break;&break;Muscle cars of the 1970s, 80s, 90s and the toughest cars of the 2000s are also featured in brilliant full color! &break;&break;Features more than 300 muscle cars, including some of the latest releases on the market &break;&break;Manufacturers include American Motors, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, and Studebaker &break;&break;Updated with new, full-color photos

The All-American Muscle Car
The All-American Muscle Car

Author: Joe Oldham

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2017-05-22

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0760358184

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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.

Top Muscle
Top Muscle

Author: Darwin Holmstrom

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1627881557

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A muscle-car book unlike any other, featuring the rarest vehicles on Earth. In the 1960s, something explosive happened in the automotive world: the United States’ evolving V-8 engine technology was met by 75 million baby boomers, all with an extreme need for speed and all entering the auto market at the same time. The result was the golden era of factory muscle cars, brutish machines that were unlike any the world had ever seen or will likely ever see again—they truly embodied the “sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll” generation. But for some, even a factory muscle car wasn’t enough. Detroit automakers responded, secretly building outrageous muscle cars behind their superiors’ backs and ultimately creating some of the most powerful vehicles ever sold to the public. In Top Muscle, author Darwin Holmstrom chronicles the ultimate collection of these super-rare high-performance beasts. Captured by the lens of renowned auto photographer Randy Leffingwell, these cars represent the absolute zenith of the most valuable collector cars in existence, with fascinating histories that illuminate the wildest age in American automotive history. The Brothers Collection features over 600 cars, including such rarities as:- The very first Chevelle Z16 ever built, which was also the very first muscle car that Chevrolet ever built- The very first Chevelle SS454 LS6 off the assembly line- The only 1969 Mach I Mustang ever built with a factory sunroof- The very first A12 (440-6) Roadrunner ever built- The very last Hemi ’Cuda convertible Plymouth producedvOne of the eight convertible Trans Am Ram Air III Firebirds that Pontiac built in 1969

American Muscle Cars 2025
American Muscle Cars 2025

Author: Editors of Motorbooks

Publisher:

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 0760392048

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Behold some of America’s most brutish performance machines in this stunning 16-month wall calendar. American Muscle Cars 2025 features more than a year’s worth of beautiful photography depicting brawny classic cars from the 1960s, 1970s, and today—all of them rare models that have not been included in previous American Muscle Cars calendars. With an additional spread that shows the months of September, October, November, and December 2024, followed by individual spreads for the months of 2025, this 12" × 12" wall calendar brings you 16 incredible months showcasing some of the rarest and most outrageous high-performance cars ever to explode onto the scene. Inside you’ll find powerful offerings from the Dodge, Plymouth, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Buick brands. Keep yourself on track while enjoying America’s fastest, rarest, and most glorious high-performance vehicles.

American Muscle Cars, 1960-1975
American Muscle Cars, 1960-1975

Author: Bruce LaFontaine

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2001-11-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780486418636

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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.

Muscle
Muscle

Author: Randy Leffingwell Darwin Holmstrom

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1610583051

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The Age of the Muscle Car
The Age of the Muscle Car

Author: Clay Fees

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1476678146

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A breed unlike any seen before or since, the powerful, stylish American muscle car defined an era in automotive history. This history traces the rise and fall of these great performance cars from their precursors in the 1950s through the seminal appearance of the Pontiac GTO in 1964 and then year by year to the end in the 1970s. Approachable and nontechnical yet deeply informative, it puts the bygone muscle car in its cultural and aesthetic contexts, describes developments in styling, performance and marketing, and revels in the joys of muscle car ownership in the 21st century.

Muscle Cars
Muscle Cars

Author: Publications International Ltd

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781640300057

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Trace the fascinating evolution of American muscle cars -- from their glory days in the early Sixties to the first hints of the modern Muscle Era -- via beautiful large-format photography and informative and insightful text. You'll find not only GTOs and GTXs, but Camaros and Javelins, Mustangs and 'Cudas, Galaxies and Impalas, and even a couple Studebakers •Take a quick trip through the post-1971 landscape to better illustrate how quickly it all fell apart before the first glimmers of a new era of the muscle started to appear in the Eighties.