Muscle Car Mavericks

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Take a visually thrilling, high-speed run through nearly 70 years of muscle car madness.

Muscle Car Mavericks offers a nostalgic, insightful, and historically accurate look at one of the American auto industry’s greatest and most beloved creations: the muscle car. Although America’s youth had been stuffing oversized engines into prewar cars since the 1930s and coaxing greater performance from Detroit’s postwar offerings, it took rebels like GM’s John DeLorean to apply the formula at the Motor City’s automakers in the 1960s. Once Pontiac’s GTO and Ford’s Mustang were turned loose to intersect with America’s booming youth market, there was no turning back.

Muscle Car Mavericks surveys the entire American-performance landscape, from early performance stirrings in the 1950s right up through outrageous modern performers like SRT’s Hellcat Hemi. Key figures include:

Industry insiders: Ed Cole, Bill Mitchell, Lee Iacocca, Jim Wangers, Larry Shinoda, Bob Lutz, John Coletti
Dealers and aftermarket builders: Mr. Norm, Hurst, Yenko, Baldwin Motion, Roush, Hennessey, Ringbrothers
Racers: Sox and Martin, Smokey Yunick, Don Yenko, Holman and Moody, Steve Saleen

And, of course, all the milestone muscle cars themselves, including Camaro, Roadrunner, Firebird, ’Cuda, Mustang, Charger, and more, as well as famed race cars and series like NHRA Pro Stock, Trans-Am, and SCCA events.

Brought to life with exhilarating photography, Muscle Car Mavericks explores the untold stories and cultural impact of these iconic machines like never before. It’s a must-have volume for every muscle car enthusiast’s collection.

Author: Mr. Jim Pickering

Author Bio: Jim Pickering served as managing editor of Sports Car Market magazine and was editor of American Car Collector magazine for more than a decade. As a founding editor of Linkage magazine, Pickering contributed feature stories, columns, and auction coverage from across the muscle car world. He spent his formative years as an amateur drag racer and developed hands-on skills as a muscle and classic car mechanic while earning a creative writing degree at Pacific University in Oregon. Pickering has authored two books on building and modifying classic Chevrolet C10 pickups, and his feature writing has appeared in Hot Rod Magazine, Old Cars Weekly, The Autoshift, Hagerty Media, and more. Martyn L. Schorr has a history with high-performance cars that dates back to the beginning of Ford's Total Performance era over sixty years ago. He rode with Carroll Shelby and was at the press conference in New York for the debut of the Lola-built Ford GT that became the GT40. Schorr drove the GT40 on streets of New York City and went with Mickey Thompson in 1969 to Bonneville to set a book full of records. He personally knew all the key players from Ford's racing program from his years as a magazine editor. Schorr is the author of Motorbooks titles Motion Performance and Day One.

ISBN: 9798317900755

Publisher: Motorbooks

Binding Type: Hardback

Language: English

Pages: 176

Printing Status: Awaiting stock

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