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American Muscle Car volume 4
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English
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Imagine a car that would do zero to one hundred miles per hour…and back to zero…in under ten seconds. The Cobras had it all – acceleration, braking, handling – and they look fantastic, too. Stand by for the ride of your life!
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American Muscle Car volume 12
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English
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Many people say this is where the musclecar era began. The ’55 Chevy was Chevrolet’s opening into the world of auto performance. These cars changed America’s automotive landscape, and today they’re still the most popular collector cars in the world.
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American Muscle Car volume 6
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English
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From within Chrysler Corporation's engineering department came a group of car crazies who just wanted to go drag racing. They built a racing team that is legendary today.
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American Muscle Car volume 6
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English
Description
Carroll Shelby’s GT-350 Mustang was a limited edition road racer in street clothing. Shelby’s GT-500KR was not for the faint of heart. It had every performance option you could get from a Ford, plus a big, bad 428 engine. By the way, “KR” stood for “King of the Road”.
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American Muscle Car volume 5
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English
Description
Ford went drag racing in 1964 with their new Fairlane and their NASCAR 427 engine. Talk about a ringer! The result was the most mind-boggling car the NHRA stock classes had ever seen.
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American Muscle Car volume 11
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English
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From wild, crowd-pleasing drag race exhibition cars, like the Hemi Under Glass, to the Hurst Olds Indy Pace Cars, every car produced by Hurst became an instant classic.
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American Muscle Car volume 3
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English
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The story of the birth of the Corvette from the introduction of the original 1953 roadster with the “Blue Flame” 6-cylinder engine, the early small-block powered Vettes, the “fuelie” cars featuring Rochester’s early fuel injection, and the Route 66 days.
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American Muscle Car volume 3
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English
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Ford’s 427 Fairlanes and Torino Talladegas had one purpose – to sweep the Hemi Mopars off the high-banked NASCAR tracks. And they did, too!
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American Muscle Car volume 12
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English
Description
With power-to-weight ratios like rocket sleds, Novas became immediate favorites of the muscle car crowd. If a 327 or a 350 wasn’t enough, how about a 375-horsepower 396 in a Chevy II Nova? If you had about three grand and nerves of steel, you could have owned one.
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American Muscle Car volume 6
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English
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Completely restyled for 1963, Corvette launched into its greatest popularity. Get inside, fire it up, and discover the true heart-pounding excitement of America’s one true sports car!
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American Muscle Car volume 5
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English
Description
Chrysler 300s were expensive and luxurious, but thanks to the Hemi engine and the big bad Max Wedge, they were the fastest things on the road and the early NASCAR tracks.
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American Muscle Car volume 8
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English
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The 426 Max Wedge and Hemi Plymouths and Dodges blew away everyone in the NHRA Super Stock classes, and gave Chrysler Corporation a head start over Ford and Chevy in the Musclecar wars.
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American Muscle Car volume 10
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English
Description
Saleen started in the eighties, road-racing 5-liter Mustangs. Saleen Mustangs are now the most feared road racers in endurance racing competition, and on the street.
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American Muscle Car volume 7
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English
Description
Built for the superspeedways, but available at your local Mopar showroom, the 1969 and ’70 Dodge Daytona and the 1970 Plymouth Superbird were the essence of what the Musclecar was (and is) all about.
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American Muscle Car volume 7
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English
Description
“Yeah, it’s a Gran Sport. Wanna race?” And that was usually the last of the conversation as the torque monster from Flint, Michigan buried its competition in leather-upholstered style. Stage I GS cars boasted the most torque of any U.S. production car EVER
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American Muscle Car volume 10
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English
Description
One of the greatest supercars ever built, for the street or the track, and the first two-seat sports car built since the Corvette and the early T-Bird. Close to ten thousand of these lightning-fast cars stuffed a lot of wisecracks about Ramblers being slow and boring!
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American Muscle Car volume 1
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English
Description
The 1964 GTO is the one that started the whole Detroit Musclecar craze – but it almost never happened. GM’s corporate policy wouldn’t allow such a lightweight car with such a huge engine, but Pontiac “finessed” the rules by making the GTO an option to the Tempest Le Mans. The cost of this option? Oh, about two hundred bucks.
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American Muscle Car volume 2
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English
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Super Duty! In the early sixties these two words meant the most powerful engines of any American car. This all-out assault on the speedways of America made Pontiac GM’s “WE BUILD EXCITEMENT” car company.
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American Muscle Car volume 14
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English
Description
Chrysler Corporation finds a whole new image and a whole bunch of new consumers watching Saturday morning TV. The Roadrunner's owners just love the little horn – and the big engines!
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American Muscle Car volume 10
Language
English
Description
The story of the legendary 409. When Chevy squeezed one horsepower per cubic inch out of this engine in 1962, it sent everyone in Detroit back into the engine lab, and practically everyone else in America to the Chevy dealer!
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