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Book Description
They were the baby boomer's first cars, made to race, and they did, driving their Corvettes and Cudas, their Mustangs and Trans Ams, until there wasnt much left. Now these muscle cars of the Sixties and Seventies are the stuff of legends . . . and nostalgia. And the rare models that survived in good shape are a collectors dream, easily commanding six-figure prices and often passing the million-dollar mark. Million Dollar Muscle Cars provides a photographic history of these rarest of rare cars, from the high-performance fantasies of yesterday to the high-finance wheeling and dealing of today. In full-color pictures and detailed prose, the book follows these cars from their performance beginnings to their decade of decline to an automotive world awakening to their historical significance and eternal cool.
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Just Customz Review
Colin Comer has been a Muscle Car enthusiast from a very early age and now owns a muscle car business selling these magnificent cars. The descriptions for each car is rich and informative and backed up by the superb photography supplied by David Newhardt.
The book firstly talks about the history of both the muscle car industry and Colin Comer describing his background and roots. Then the book is split into to main section of those muscle cars demanding a mear 6 figure-sum and those that actually pass the 1 million dollar mark - truely amazing.
Within each of these sections Colin and David document the story of best muscle cars around today. These are as follows;
Section 1: Million-Dollar Cars
Chapter One: 1970-1971 ‘Cuda & Challenger Hemi Convertibles
Chapter Two: 1965 Shelby GT350 R Models
Chapter Three: 1965 Hurst GeeTO Tiger
Chapter Four: 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake
Chapter Five: 1968 Camaro Z/28 Convertible
Chapter Six: 1969 Trans Am Convertibles
Chapter Seven: 1969 ZL1 Camaros
Chapter Eight: 1971 Sox & Martin Stock Hemi ‘Cuda Car
Section 2: Six Figures and Rising
Chapter Nine: 1965 Hurst Motor Trend GTO Riverside 500 Pace Car
Chapter Ten: 1965-1966 Shelby GT350 Factory Drag Cars
Chapter Eleven: 1968 Mr. Norm’s GSS 440 Dart
Chapter Twelve: 1969 Yenko 427 Nova
Chapter Thirteen: 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Hemi
Chapter Fourteen: 1969-1971 Pontiac GTO Judge Round-Port Convertibles
Chapter Fifteen: 1970 Chevelle L56 Convertible
About the Author
Born along with the advent of low-lead fuel and low compression engines from Detroit in 1971, Colin Comer readily admits his love of cars began well before he could walk, let alone drive. While many are content to simply read about or admire the machines they are passionate about from afar, Colin is not one to be satisfied unless he is up to his elbows in grease or finding the limits of an old car's performance capabilities. This unique blend of firsthand experience and incredible knowledge literally jumps off of the written page with such ferocity that you can almost smell the tire smoke and straight-weight motor oil.
Colin's writing and thoughts on the collector car world are regularly featured in publications such as Sports Car Market and Corvette Market magazines, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today, and others along with frequent television appearances and seminars. Colin's tastes in vintage cars are quite eclectic, but his true passion are the cars of Shelby American, as evidenced by his own collection that is knee-deep in original Cobras and Shelby Mustangs. When not maintaining or writing about cars, Colin can be found piloting his 1966 GT350 race car on racetracks across the country, or on the road exercising an old car somewhere. Colin and his wife Cana reside in River Hills, Wisconsin along with a boxer named Dempsey that they swear would be able to drive away like a Far Side cartoon dog if he could just figure out how to work the pedals...
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