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Cars of the 1970s : classic sedans, sports cars, and compacts.
Cars of the 1970's explores the most significant and interesting car models of this fascinating era. Popular makes, from AMC to Volvo are celebrataed with page after page of full-color photographs. Models include classic Camaros, the Chrysler Imperial and other large luxury cars, curiosities like the Bricklin SV-1, and new and nimble lines like the Honda Civic. Both casual readers and classic car enthusiasts will enjoy the accompanying lore, history and technical tidbits.- Subjects: Automobiles ; Automobiles ; Automobiles ;
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- Muscle cars : style, power, and performance / by Glastonbury, Jim,author.(CARDINAL)535551;
Forerunners: the pre-muscle cars -- The original: the GTO story -- Hey good-lookin': the Mustang story -- Mustang-hunting: the Camaro story -- Breathe deep: the Hemi story -- Survivor: the Firebird/Trans Am story -- They also served: other muscle cars -- Revival: modern muscle cars -- Two-seat muscle?: the Corvette -- Quarter-mile monkeys: the drag-racing muscle cars -- Slicing the air: NASCAR and Trans Am.Muscle cars are loud, proud, and in your face, with no other pretensions than to be just that. They may be simple, even crude, but for roaring, pumping, tire-smoking standing starts, they are the business. Muscle cars are a quintessentially North American phenomenon, owing their outrageous existence to a very simple formula. Take a mid-sized American sedan, nothing too complicated, upmarket, or fancy, then add the biggest, raunchiest V8 that it is possible to squeeze under the hood, and there it is! Pontiac was first, with the legendary GTO, then Ford invented a new class of car with the the pony car, the Mustang, then every other American manufacturer got in on the act, producing the legendary Hemi, Camaro, Firebird and Trans-Am, among many others. This book covers them all, as well as all the excitement of Trans-Am/NASCAR racing. Muscle cars are loud, proud and in your face, with no other pretensions than to be just that. They may be simple, even crude, but for roaring, pumping, tire-smoking standing starts, they are the business. To the youth culture of America, raised on drag racing, red-light street racing and hot-rodding, they are irresistible. The late 1960s was the heyday of the muscle car, before soaring accident rates and insurance premiums, tougher safety and emissions legislation, and finally an oil crisis, made excessive horsepower seem irresponsible. For a while, muscle cars faded from the scene, but in the 1980s they were beginning to creep back into favor, building to a full-blooded revival in the 1990s. They may be a little more efficient today, certainly more high-tech, but muscle cars are definitely back with a vengeance!- Subjects: Illustrated works.; Automobiles; Automobiles; Muscle cars; Muscle cars;
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- Chilton General Motors service manual. by Chilton Book Company.(CARDINAL)141789;
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- Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; General Motors automobiles;
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- Muscle cars / by Glastonbury, Jim.(CARDINAL)535551;
Known primarily as the "big engine/small car" vehicles, muscle cars have spanned several generations to become a symbol of power and pride. Muscle cars are a quintessentially North American phenomenon, owing their outrageous existence to a very simple formula. Take a mid-sized American sedan, nothing too complicated, upmarket or fancy, then add the biggest, raunchiest V8 that it is possible to squeeze under the hood, and there it is! Pontiac was first, with the legendary GTO, then Ford invented a new class of car with the the pony car, the Mustang, then every other American manufacturer got in on the act, producing the legendary Hemi, Camaro, Firebird and Trans-Am, among many others. This book covers them all, as well as all the excitement of Trans-Am/NASCAR racing. Muscle cars are loud, proud and in your face, with no other pretensions than to be just that. They may be simple, even crude, but for roaring, pumping, tire-smoking standing starts, they are the business. To the youth culture of America, raised on drag racing, red-light street racing and hot-rodding, they are irresistable. The late 1960s was the heyday of the muscle car, before soaring accident rates and insurance premiums, tougher safety and emissions legislation, and finally an oil crisis, made excessive horsepower seem irresponsible. For a while, muscle cars faded from the scene, but in the 1980s they were beginning to creep back into favor, building to a full-blooded revival in the 1990s. They may be a little more efficient today, certainly more high-tech, but muscle cars are definitely back with a vengeance!- Subjects: Illustrated works.; Automobiles; Muscle cars; Muscle cars; Automobiles;
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