num_pages: 224
description: This is the muscle car history to owna richly illustrated chronicle of America's greatest high-performance cars told from their 1960s beginning through the present day!In the 1960s three incendiary ingredientsdeveloping V-8 engine technology  a culture consumed by the need for speed  and 75 million baby boomers entering the auto marketexploded 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 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 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 for Pontiac's GTO and changed the course of automotive history. From that moment on American performance cars would never be the same.Featured cars represent all American automakers of the time Chrysler  Ford  General Motors  and AMC as well as landmark models like the Challenger  Charger  Road Runner  Super Bee  Super Bird  'Cuda  Camaro  Chevelle SS  442  Boss Mustang  GTX  Javelin  AMX  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.
language: English
title: American Muscle Cars: A Full-Throttle History
publisher: Motorbooks