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Standard Guide to American Muscle Cars: A Supercar Source Book 1952-2005

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Product Description: 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 showcases more than 300 of Detroit's tire-twisting cars from Ford, Chevy, Dodge, AMC, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and more.

Listings include a historical background, original factory specifications, available options, original pricing information and an updated price guide, with current values in six condition grades. Inside, readers will find every type of high performance model from early full-size favorites like the 1961 Chevrolet Impala SS to muscle car heyday favorites like the 1968 Shelby Mustang GT 500KR. Muscle cars of the 1970s, 80s, 90s and the toughest cars of the early 2000s are also featured in brilliant full color.

-Features more than 300 muscle cars, including some of the latest releases on the market -Manufacturers include American Motors, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, and Studebaker -Updated with new, full-color photos

Customer Reviews

 
Great
Reviewer: Philipp Marbach (Switzerland), Date of review: February 10, 2010
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
A "must" for the lover of muscale cars. Intresting, packedwith nice pics and lots of information
Disappointing
Reviewer: Rick L. Anderson (Idaho Falls, Idaho), Date of review: January 13, 2010
RAvg. Customer Rating: 1 Star
Technical errors are abundant in this book. Several cars are incorrectly identified such as the 1966 Nova 2 dr. sedan on pg. 58 said to be a Super Sport coupe and the 1971 Dodge Charger on pg. 138 said to be a 1970 model! Representative photos are a mix of factory stock, period-correct ads, and personal cars with aftermarket wheels and tires. Very inconsistent in approach. The enthusiast deserves much more from a catalog; especially a "standard" one. Standard being defined in Webster's as "something set up for a rule in measuring or as a model to be followed". All in all a botched job to say the least.
Lots of information..pure technical data..
Reviewer: Tom Glier , Date of review: November 04, 2008
Avg. Customer Rating: 3 Stars
Hi there,

for me i have more expected...to much text, less datas and pictures. But overall there were shown a lot of cars from the muscle car area and intersting news, which i don't know before. 3 stars for me..
Excellent fun
Reviewer: S. Patterson (Frederick, MD United States), Date of review: October 09, 2007
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Just a great book all around. So may great cars to look at and read about. If you want detailed information on a single car or generation of a car then look elsewhere, but for pretty good commentary and loads of pictures, this book is an excellent read, and reference.
An ideal guide to American Muscle cars.
Reviewer: Chris Sellick (South Australia,Australia), Date of review: May 25, 2006
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

This is a big book.Its mostly color photos throughout.Each car has 1 page devoted to it,1 color photo (sometimes 2 photos)and plenty of information.Its a great book.

The standard of these books from this publisher has improved over their former black and white photos and low quality paper.Now these books are printed on very high quality paper and plenty of color photos.

This book is an overview of American muscle cars.It helps knowing whats out there.If you wanted specific and detailed information on your favourite model you should consider looking at books that cater for specific models.This book is a gem and an ideal book to start with.