Product Description

-Features the most mysterious and radical sector of muscle cars ever created

-Explores the intense popularity of muscle cars -- many of the top 125 sales at Barrett-Jackson national auto auctions involve muscle cars

This book redefines extreme with old-school super stock finesse and pure horsepower. Extreme Muscle Cars gives collectors, gearheads, and novice car enthusiasts a rare look at the fastest and most insane thoroughbred cars to come out of Detroit. Technical specifications including horsepower and torque, and production numbers allow readers to "look" under the hood of these radical super stock machines.

Chapter, after exciting chapter features:

-Legends of the drag strip including Ford Fairlane Thunderbolts, Mopar Max Wedge and Hemi cars

-Masters of the stop light grand prix such as 454 Chevelles, 429 Boss Mustang and Shelby GT-500 Mustang

-More than 200 stunning detailed photos that virtually put readers behind the wheel of many never-before-seen muscle cars

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #392720 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

Extrem Musclecars: High Horsepower Straight from the factory


Excellent text and information with racing photos that I have never seen before, especially after 30 years following this subject.

Extreme Mistakes
Extreme has become an overused word. These cars were not the norm, but they were available from certain dealers. Agreed; no forewords in the book. What really bothers me is the numerous grammatical errors and misspellings. Here's an example: 'the block was bored to .30'. I'm sure it means 0.030 over, but bothersome to me. This makes me suspect the other "facts and figures" in the text. Obviously the proof reader was absent that day. They even misspelled one driver's name when the proper spelling is very clearly seen on the car door in the picture. I expect better. I do give it good marks for the pictures; many, clear and interesting. Money better spent elsewhere.
Update 1-12-08:
Factory Lightweights is a much better book, it's available right here at Amazon and is the better value within the same category of cars/ interest. You can tell more research and author excitement went into this publication. I recommend it over this particular book.

extreme muscle cars: the factory lightweight legacy
very impressed with book. not only did they cover popular lightweight race cars they covered cars that werent popular during this drag racing era.