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Motor City Muscle: High-Powered History of the American Muscle Car

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This book is perefect if you're looking for great color photos and interesting facts about all makes and models of american muscle cars. It covers Chevy, Ford, Mercury, Dodge, Plymouth, Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac, and AMC. Covers everything from the early sixties up till the early seventies. There's even a little info on later muscle like the Buick Grand Nationals of the 80's. The one thing this book lacks is technical data. It won't help you with restoration info, but it's perfect for armchair musclecar enthusiasts.

This is a great book of muscle cars. With plenty of information and great pictures, any muscle car fan would love this book. Buy this book and find out for yourself how good this book is.

Great general book on the muscle car era. Some of the best pictures on the subject you'll find anywhere.

The author really understands the magnetic attraction these cars had for guys growing up during the classic musclecar era. The book is great - it covers all makes fairly and has a wealth of photos and descriptions. But it also gives you a real understanding of why these cars were (and are) so special and why they're still revered today. Buy this book!

This is a great recollection of the muscle car era with exceptional, detailed photographs. Would look good on any coffee table.

This is a GREAT book for any old car enthusiast and has in depth detailed pictures and info from the start of Muscle car history till then uneventful end of the muscle car era

I found the book informative. Nice commentary - wonderful photos. - done with a broad spectrum of readers in mind.

Great little book(the 2011 Edition w/a cool Orange Camaro Illustration on the Cover), Everything in the book is covered from Chevelles to Camaros To Firebirds,GTOS,Buick GS/GSX,and 4-4-2,It's A Reader,yes there is alot of Color Pictures some small ads but it is mainly a Reader with funny writing and well deserved nader-bashing,there is even a Mention of The Corvette(Why it's not a Muscle Car, I think the High performance and the new Ones Are).Great Book!

i love this book! what fun to look back. in great shape.

I got this book as a gift and tried to find something new that isn't just rehashed stuff of legends.
I'll condense this book into the following; Hemi,LS-6,Stage III,Super Duty,Cobra Jet,440 Magnum,427 Wedge Ram Air IV and W-30 - all good, all the rest were not quite up to the task.
Of course if you had a drivers licence during that heydey and actually street raced you knew better, most people could not afford those expensive stuff-of legend cars and actually made runners out of the 400 inch and below motors from all the different manufacturers. Those were really the musclecars that were out there in numbers, a poorly tuned Hemi could'nt beat a well tuned 327 or 289 and that was often the case on the street.
But hey the photos are pretty good, and if you haven't heard the stories and legends ad naseum - this book is for you.