Muscle Cars

By: Jerry Heasley . Description Rare, super-high-performance, and historically significant muscle cars and sports cars have been spotted in old garages, resting in pastures, sitting in parking ramps, and tucked away in the most unusual places. Tossed out...

By: Mike Mueller . Description The classic muscle car era is undoubtedly one of the most exciting in America's long motoring history. For a brief window during the 1960s and early 1970s, manufacturers packed huge horsepower into lightweight and...

By: Doug Boyce . Book Description The growth of drag racing from the late 1950s through the 1980s was nothing short of spectacular, and Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins was there through all of it. He was instrumental in the sport, from his technical...

By: Steve Magnante . Book Descrtiption Automotive junkyards used to serve as sources for used auto parts, and any vehicle past its prime could very well end up there. Whether it had been damaged by collision or fire, or was simply so worn out it...

By: Sue Elliott . Description Any custom automotive project begins with making choices. There are choices under the hood, such as which engine will match well with a certain chassis and transmission. There are aesthetic choices, like whether to use...

By: Sharon Bartsch . Description True muscle cars make no apologies. They had one primary job: get the driver from Point A to Point B as fast as law, and the driver's driving ability, would allow. They started off in the early 1960s as mid-size sedans...

By: Bob McClurg . Description Today, Don Yenko is fondly remembered for the legendary high-horsepower cars bearing his name that were offered on showroom floors at Chevy dealers across the country. In the more than four decades since Yenko began building...

By: Larry Davis . In many ways, drag racing spawned the muscle car era of the ‘60s. Super Stock drag racing was huge in the early ‘60s, and the factories encouraged their teams’ success by building high-power, lightweight cars...

By: Simon Green . There are cars you drive to work, and there are cars that stir your blood. Of all the lusted- after cars ever created, nothing else has the enduring cool of a classic American muscle car. Today the surviving muscle cars are more popular...

By: Editors of Hot Rod Magazine . Big block engines, lightweight bodies, and a healthy dose of attitude. In the mid 1960s, domestic auto manufacturers used that combination to invigorate slumping sales with the advent of the muscle car. The new breed of...

By: Steve Statham . During the 1960s and 1970s, a winning race program was essential to a manufacturer's high performance image and success.  For Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, and AMC, "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday" wasn't an abstract concept -...

By: John Gunnell . This companion volume to Standard Catalog of American Muscle Cars 1960-1972 takes off where the "classic" muscle cars left off, covering the high-tech factory hot rods of the'70s,'80s,'90s and New Millennium. In...