The photos in this book are outstanding - 80 color and 40 black and white - crystal clear and printed on quality paper, complemented by concise line drawings.
Remember those fire-breathing, rubber-burning muscle cars? Big V-8s, dual exhaust, hemi heads, screaming quarter miles. Drive 'em on the street, race 'em at the strip, profile on the avenue. Who could forget the Chrysler 300, Dodge D500, Studebaker Hawk, and all those other boulevard brawlers?
That's right. Fifties muscle. The pony cars of the sixties might get all the ink, but it was their fifties-era brethren that set the stage. And don't kid yourself that this is pandering. Chrysler's 1956 300B pumped out an impressive 355 horsepower and Chevrolet's 1957 Corvette streaked from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just 6.4 seconds, to name just a couple.
This book examines one of the American auto industry's most fertile development periods. In a short 10 years, Detroit's Big Three and their independent competitors went from stale, prewar rehashes to dazzling design and adrenaline-pumping performance.
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