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American Muscle Car volume 6
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English
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From within Chrysler Corporation's engineering department came a group of car crazies who just wanted to go drag racing. They built a racing team that is legendary today.
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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 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 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 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 12
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English
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Today's Super Sport Camaros and Firebird Firehawks built by SLP outperform the sixties musclecars in every way, from handling and comfort to safety and straight-line acceleration.
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American Muscle Car volume 2
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English
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Somewhere inside Ford and Chevy, someone thought a half-car/half-pickup truck was a good idea. As it turned out, it was a great idea, and with big-block engines, the El Camino and the Ranchero were memorable muscle machines.
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American Muscle Car volume 9
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English
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Chrysler Corporation turned their 340 ‘Cudas and Challengers into world-class road racers, and musclecar fans lined up at Chrysler’s showrooms for a chance to take them to the streets!
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American Muscle Car volume 7
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English
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Instead of another "Pony Car," Dodge chose to make an upmarket full-size rocket called the Charger. Today, Chargers are some of the most beloved muscle cars ever made.
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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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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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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.