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American Muscle Cars
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Artikel-Nr:
9780760350980
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
WEB PDF
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Darwin Holmstrom
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable WEB PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
American Muscle Cars features stunning historic and contemporary photography and offers a thorough chronology of this classic car's evolution from the 1960s to the present.
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—developingV-8 engine technology, a culture consumed by theneed for speed, and 75 millionbaby 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, definedthe 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 thestreet-racing hot rod culture that emerged following World War IIthrough 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 engineerJohn Z. DeLorean, and his team installed 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 forPontiac's GTO—and changed the course of automotive history. From that moment on, American performance cars would never be the same.
Featured cars representall American automakers of the time—ChryslerFordGeneral Motors, andAMC—as well as landmark models like theChallengerChargerRoad RunnerSuper BeeSuper Bird'CudaCamaroChevelle SS442Boss MustangGTXJavelinAMX, and much more.
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.
In the 1960s, three incendiary ingredients—developingV-8 engine technology, a culture consumed by theneed for speed, and 75 millionbaby 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, definedthe 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 thestreet-racing hot rod culture that emerged following World War IIthrough 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 engineerJohn Z. DeLorean, and his team installed 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 forPontiac's GTO—and changed the course of automotive history. From that moment on, American performance cars would never be the same.
Featured cars representall American automakers of the time—ChryslerFordGeneral Motors, andAMC—as well as landmark models like theChallengerChargerRoad RunnerSuper BeeSuper Bird'CudaCamaroChevelle SS442Boss MustangGTXJavelinAMX, and much more.
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.