Muscle Cars

By: Jerry Heasley . Description Rare, super-high-performance, and historically significant muscle cars and sports cars have been spotted in old garages, resting in pastures, sitting in parking ramps, and tucked away in the most unusual places. Tossed out...

By: Mike Mueller . Description The classic muscle car era is undoubtedly one of the most exciting in America's long motoring history. For a brief window during the 1960s and early 1970s, manufacturers packed huge horsepower into lightweight and...

By: Sharon Bartsch . Description True muscle cars make no apologies. They had one primary job: get the driver from Point A to Point B as fast as law, and the driver's driving ability, would allow. They started off in the early 1960s as mid-size sedans...

By: Larry Davis . In many ways, drag racing spawned the muscle car era of the ‘60s. Super Stock drag racing was huge in the early ‘60s, and the factories encouraged their teams’ success by building high-power, lightweight cars...

By: Editors of Hot Rod Magazine . Big block engines, lightweight bodies, and a healthy dose of attitude. In the mid 1960s, domestic auto manufacturers used that combination to invigorate slumping sales with the advent of the muscle car. The new breed of...

By: Steve Statham . During the 1960s and 1970s, a winning race program was essential to a manufacturer's high performance image and success.  For Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, and AMC, "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday" wasn't an abstract concept -...

2nd hand book in very good condtion By: John Gunnell . The world's most popular book on 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. This edition...

By: Brooklands Books . This Muscle Portfolio collects expert views on how the powerful American muscle cars, produced between 1966 and 1970, performed against each other. Chevrolet's Chevelle, Impala, Camaro and Corvette, go head-to-head against...