Get the full history of the American muscle car in The All-American Muscle Car, from it's origin as an act of descent, to where it sits now.

The All-American Muscle Car provides the ultimate hands-on history of the American Muscle car and where it is now --  Mustangs, Camaros, 'Cudas, Challengers, you name it.

When John Z. DeLorean and his cadre of enthusiastic rule benders took it upon themselves to bolt Pontiac's hottest engine into a mid-sized Tempestdisobeying orders from the top of General Motors food chain, they created something that should not have been, and will never be again: the muscle car. The resultingGTO spearheaded a new breed of performance car aimed at a new breed of buyer: the baby boom generation, tens of millions of young customers entering the market each year.

The All-American Muscle Car: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Detroit's Greatest Performance Cars tells the story of these brutal performance machines through the words of muscle-car icons like Jim Wangers, the man who marketed DeLorean's thuggish inventionJoe Oldham, a legendary automotive journalist who tested these cars when they first came off the production line, often via illegal street racing, andclassic-car broker Colin Comer, who has been instrumental in restoring some of the most iconic (and valuable) muscle cars.

Top muscle car experts like Randy Leffingwell andDavid Newhardt tell other facets of the muscle-car story, like the pony-car wars between theMustangCamaro'Cuda, andChallenger; the ultra-high performance dealer specials; and the rebirth of the modern muscle car. All told, this book provides the ultimate hands-on history of these most American of cars.