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Cars of the 1960s tells the story of a tumultuous decade that saw a shift from chrome and tailfins to powerful muscle cars. Featured vehicles include: the Ford Mustang, the Pontiac GTO, and the luxury Buick Riviera. Period street scenes and advertising help deliver an immersive experience of the magnificent machines that helped make this decade great. In addition, there are year-by-year overviews of major news and cultural events. Hardcover, 416 pages.
Take a front-row seat as the American automotive scene explodes with the thrifty compacts, personal-luxury yachts, and tire-burning muscle machines that put the baby-boom generation on wheels.
From economy cars to muscle cars to personal luxury cars, never had Detroit's offerings been so diverse--or so adventurous--as in the '60s. This picture-packed analysis of the magnificent cars that marked the end of the performance era revives that feeling with 140 accurate auto profiles, specifications for every car, production figures, and hundreds of full-color photos.
Cars of the Sizzling '60s tells the story of a tumultuous decade that saw extraordinary changes, in the culture at large and in American automobiles. It began with the brilliant chrome and tail fins of the 1950s and culminated with the powerful muscle cars that ruled the 1960s. Detroit turned out some of the greatest machines in auto history in the 1960s. This is the decade of the Ford Mustang, the Pontiac GTO, and the luxury Buick Riviera. Practically every page of this handsome leather-bound book is packed with fantastic cars and information. Here's a sampling of what you'll enjoy in Cars of the Sizzling '60s: • Hundreds of incredible photos of vintage cars • Year-by-year summaries of each major American make • Lively original ads and promotional illustrations • Informative essays about what was happening with cars and the culture at large during every year of the 1960s • Fascinating trivia, anecdotes, and quotes about cars of the 1960s Whether you're a longtime car enthusiast or simply a student of the 1960s, Cars of the Sizzling '60s will take you on an unforgettable ride.
Climb into one of America’s classic luxury cars from the 1960s and 1970s, swaddle yourself in yards and yards of fine Corinthian leather, scan the gigantic dashboard filled with esoteric dials and gauges that you can never hope to understand, twist the oversized ignition key, and listen to those coffee-can-sized pistons crank over in that enormous V-8 lurking under that vast expanse of hood. Feel that throbbing power burbling beneath an accelerator pedal the size of a Japanese hotel room, and you’ll know what once made the American auto industry great. Road Hogs celebrates this greatness, as expressed through the magnificent performance luxury cars that rolled out of Detroit during the classic era, like the Cadillac Eldorado, Chrysler 300, Buick Electra, Chevy Monte Carlo, Buick Riviera, and many more.
The automotive industry underwent great change in the 1960s and the early 1970s. The continuing trend toward market consolidation, the proliferation of sizes and nameplates, and the "need for speed" characterized this period, loosely labeled as the muscle car era. This is an exhaustive reference work to American made cars of model years 1960-1972. Organized by year (and summarizing the market annually), it provides a yearly update on each make's status and production figures, then details all models offered for that year. Model listings include available body styles, base prices, engine and transmission choices, power ratings, standard equipment, major options and their prices, curb weight and dimensions (interior and exterior), paint color choices, changes from the previous year's model, and sales figures. Also given are assembly plant locations and historical overviews of each model nameplate. The book is profusely illustrated with 1,018 photographs.
Learn about the rarest muscle cars ever produced with this new book. In the world of muscle cars, many were produced and sold in large enough quantities that they would be considered special but not particularly rare at the time of production. The Boss 429 and Plymouth Superbird were produced for racing homologation reasons, and since they were very expensive to produce, the manufacturers ensured that they would be rare. However, there is rare, and then there is rare. Prototypes and special factory builds, factory production cars, and super car tuners and builders are all covered in this new book by muscle-car historian Wes Eisenschenk. Some are single examples, some are very close to being the last remaining example, and all are extremely rare. Some have no surviving example known to exist. Featured cars include a Boss 429 Cougar, a 1971 Pontiac Ventura II Sprint 455, a 1965 Chevelle 300 COPO car with the L78 option, and a 1970 FK5 Deep Burnt Orange Metallic Superbird. Dealer promotional specials include a 1968 AMC AMX Von Piranha, a 1970 Dick Harrell LS6 454 Camaro, and a 1973 Nickey Chevrolet 427 Nova. These are cars that you will read about but likely never see. For a fun ride through muscle-car history and great stories of the rarest muscle cars ever produced, add this book to your automotive library today.