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American Muscle Car volume 6
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English
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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 1
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English
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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 10
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English
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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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American Muscle Car volume 5
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English
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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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Plymouth’s little compact Valiant, with new skin and a huge rear window, became a hot item – once the 383s, 440s and 426 Hemi engines found their way under the hood. Its cousin from Dodge, the Challenger, was an upscale hot rod with as much luxury as performance.
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American Muscle Car volume 8
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English
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4 barrel, 4 speed, dual exhaust. That spells 442, Oldsmobile’s entry into the Horsepower wars. With this car, Olds turned the musclecar wars up several notches. Once again those Rocket Oldsmobiles were right in the thick of it!
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American Muscle Car volume 4
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English
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In 1967, Chevrolet introduced a car that, thirty years later, is still one of their most beloved automobiles. By 1967, GM had recovered from their reluctance to produce fast little cars. The Camaro was designed to hold any engine in the Chevrolet inventory.
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American Muscle Car volume 12
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English
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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 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 9
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English
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Chevrolet’s SS designation originally adorned the high-performance Impalas, but the most popular Super Sport was by far the Chevelle. All it took was the 396 “rat motor” to turn this little grocery-getter into a pavement-pounder!
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American Muscle Car volume 2
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English
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Pontiac’s GTO is back in 1969 with outrageous paint and graphics, a popular catch phrase, and the 370-horse RAM Air IV engine. What a country!
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American Muscle Car volume 7
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English
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“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 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 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 1
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English
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Pontiac’s pony car went racing in 1969, and lives on today as one of America’s favorite street musclecars. The most famous of all Trans Ams was the one with the 455 Super Duty engine!
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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 5
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English
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There’s this road race, see, this SCCA Trans Am series? And the Camaro is perfect for it. All they needed was a 500-horsepower 302 cubic-inch engine!
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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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