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American Muscle Car volume 8
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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 7
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English
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Built for the superspeedways, but available at your local Mopar showroom, the 1969 and ’70 Dodge Daytona and the 1970 Plymouth Superbird were the essence of what the Musclecar was (and is) all about.
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American Muscle Car volume 13
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English
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A car which succeeded wonderfully following the original musclecar concept – find the lightest body you can, put in the biggest engine you've got (even the Hemi!), and hang on!
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American Muscle Car volume 10
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English
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One of the greatest supercars ever built, for the street or the track, and the first two-seat sports car built since the Corvette and the early T-Bird. Close to ten thousand of these lightning-fast cars stuffed a lot of wisecracks about Ramblers being slow and boring!
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American Muscle Car volume 5
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English
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Chrysler 300s were expensive and luxurious, but thanks to the Hemi engine and the big bad Max Wedge, they were the fastest things on the road and the early NASCAR tracks.
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American Muscle Car volume 10
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English
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Saleen started in the eighties, road-racing 5-liter Mustangs. Saleen Mustangs are now the most feared road racers in endurance racing competition, and on the street.
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American Muscle Car volume 3
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English
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Ford’s 427 Fairlanes and Torino Talladegas had one purpose – to sweep the Hemi Mopars off the high-banked NASCAR tracks. And they did, too!
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American Muscle Car volume 4
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English
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47 years old and still going strong! America's first sports car is still getting better, through five more generations, and a few "ultra" cars, like the C-5 and the Z/06 Corvette.
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American Muscle Car volume 9
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English
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The "ultimate" Mustangs – The Boss 302 was the class act in Trans Am racing, and the Boss 429 was simply the most overpowered Pony car Ford ever made… and that's saying something!
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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 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 14
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English
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Chrysler Corporation finds a whole new image and a whole bunch of new consumers watching Saturday morning TV. The Roadrunner's owners just love the little horn – and the big engines!
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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 11
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English
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Buick quietly re-entered the supercar wars in the late eighties with a turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 engine in an all-black Regal. The car was so outrageously fast that it’s now among the most collectible cars of all time.
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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 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 8
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English
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Currently the cream of the crop of Detroit's supercars, the Dodge Viper has earned fame and respect as a world-class sports racing car.
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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 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 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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