Joe Oldham & Jim Wangers 
All-American Muscle Car 
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Detroit’s Greatest Performance Cars – Revised & Updated

The All-American Muscle Car provides the ultimate hands-on history of the American Muscle car and where it is now –  Mustangs, Camaros, ‘Cudas, Challengers, you name it.



When
John Z. De Lorean and his cadre of enthusiastic rule benders took it upon themselves to bolt Pontiac’s hottest engine into a mid-sized Tempest,
disobeying orders from the top of General Motors food chain, they created something that should not have been, and will never be again: the muscle car. The resulting
GTO spearheaded a new breed of performance car aimed at a new breed of buyer: the baby boom generation, tens of millions of young customers entering the market each year.




The All-American Muscle Car: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Detroit’s Greatest Performance Cars tells the story of these
brutal performance machines through the words of muscle-car
icons like Jim Wangers , the man who marketed De Lorean’s thuggish invention,
Joe Oldham , a legendary automotive journalist who tested these cars when they first came off the production line, often via illegal street racing, and
classic-car broker Colin Comer , who has been instrumental in restoring some of the most iconic (and valuable) muscle cars.



Top
muscle car experts like Randy Leffingwell and
David Newhardt tell other facets of the muscle-car story, like the pony-car wars between the
Mustang ,
Camaro ,
‘Cuda , and
Challenger ; the ultra-high performance dealer specials; and the rebirth of the modern muscle car. All told, this book provides the ultimate hands-on history of these most American of cars.

Sobre o autor

Darwin Holmstrom has written, co-written, or contributed to over thirty books on subjects ranging from motorcycles and muscle cars to Gibson Les Paul guitars, including Indian Motorcycles, GTO: Fifty Years, Let’s Ride: Sonny Barger’s Guide to Motorcyclying, Top Muscle: The Rarest Cars from America’s Fastest Decade, BMW Motorcycles, The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles. Darwin is the senior editor for Motorbooks. Prior to that he served as Midwestern editor for Motorcyclist magazine.