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ISBN: 0760329524
ISBN13: 978-0760329528
Language: English
Publisher: Motorbooks; 1st edition (October 15, 2007)
Pages: 192
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About the book: In the 1960s and 1970s American automakers produced millions of muscle cars: high-performance cars more adept at competition than transportation. Million-Dollar Muscle Cars : The Rarest and Most Collectible Cars of the Performance Era. by Colin Comer. In full colour and detailed prose, this book follows these cars from their performance beginnings through their decade of decline and their resurgence as historical icons, and the definition of motoring cool.

About the book: In the 1960s and 1970s American automakers produced millions of muscle cars: high-performance cars more adept at competition than transportation. The baby boom generation snapped up these cars and proceeded to use them as intended, drag and street racing the cars until there was nothing left of them. No longer minimum-wage high schoolers, today’s boomers enjoy more disposable income than any generation in history. And many of them are spending that income on highly collectible muscle cars. Because so few muscle cars survived the abuse of young drivers back in the day, muscle car prices have skyrocketed, with mundane muscle cars commanding six-figure prices and the most significant muscle cars surpassing the million-dollar mark. Respected muscle car expert Colin Comer and top photographer David Newhardt tell the story of each of these rarest of rare cars in Million-Dollar Muscle Cars, the only book dedicated to these top-flight cars. Table of Contents: Introduction: Big-Money Muscle 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 Appendices Appendix A: Alternatives to Million-Dollar Muscle Appendix B: A Real-World Buyer’s Guide

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Arakus

Million Dollar Muscle Cars is an illustrated look at the history of baby boomers the first cars they were fierce and fast for the street. This period was the 60's and 70's when cars were legends made to race as well as used for in the street. The rare models that survived this onslaught are rare collectables nostalgia in steel and rubber. Colin Comer is the world's expert muscle car dealer David Newhardt is one of the best automobile photographers today together they have created a book of legends that almost mythological in significance is nonetheless a true masterpiece of it,s time and era. This book retells the story of these cars from their rise in the 60's to their decline today and re-emergance as performance icons with immense historical significance for collectors.Now all together in their own separate page or section they stand alone in pride and coolness as marques of animals which have a signifigant place in history as collectible motor vehicles for driving in cruising or racing.
These cars were not for the faint of heart to buyers they were high-performance cars more adept at competition in racing than in transportation of going from one place to another. Baby boomers did just that in using these cars for drag and street racing, which were the initiators of a legend that continues today in racing which may sound shrouded in myth but is very much a reality to people who drive these cars that demand attention and respect like thoroughbred ponys on the loose in a grassfield. An informative book, with incredible illustrations and photography, that is to be owned and respected by any muscle car enthusiast,or driver of the vehicles which in the end are of course symbols of wild animals!

Cala

Finally! A muscle car book that focuses on rarity and includes a number of 'Holy Grails.'

For Camaro fans, the book includes the one-of-one ultra-desirable convertible 1968 Camaro Z-28 made for GM honcho Pete Estes. It also includes the 1969 ZL-1 COPO Camaro #55 which was one-of-two ordered with the RS package & loaded up with options. It sold at the Mecum auction in May 2008 for $800K. The book doesn't cover two very rare 1967 Camaro's: the unheard-of Camaro Black Panther & the convertible Camaro Cherokee. Same with the '69 Z-28 with the one-of-one Smokey Yunick Trans Am cross-ram all-aluminum Hemi 302 (yes, a Hemi Camaro!)

I was surprised that the book skips the most valuable & rarest Corvettes e.g. the 1969 ZL-1 427 Corvettes (only 2 made) which would easily bring in well over a million bucks since they are very well-known and immensely desirable (one of the two used to be part of the Otis Chandler collection but you can see it on the internet if you search on Kevin Suydam's collection). It also didn't include the L-88 Corvettes. A 1967 convertible, which was the 1st of 20 L-88's built, sold for $1.25M at the Mecum auction on 8/14/10.

The book does not include any of the cars from Nickey, Dana, Baldwin Motion, or Fred Berger, but it does includes a Yenko car, but not the one you typically see, which is the Yenko Camaro, (or the even more rare Douglass-Yenko Camaro), and sometimes even the Chevelle. Instead, it includes an extremely rare Yenko Nova (37 built) which Don Yenko called a "beast, almost lethal, a car that they should not have produced" since it had a 425+hp 427 in a car lighter than a Corvette. It sold for $475k at a Mecum auction on 5/19/12. The book does include the convertible '70 Chevelle LS-6 454 (20 made) which was the highest 'officially' rated hp street engine of that era.

For Pontiac fans, the book includes the 1-of-8 convertible '69 Trans Am (one just hit the Mecum auction block on 5/22/10 and the bidding got up to $1.1M but it didn't hit the reserve), but it doesn't mention the one-and-only '70 Trans Am with the ultra-rare L85 488 cubic inch aluminum block Ram Air V engine dyno'd at 530hp (which surprisingly failed to achieve the reserve price at the Mecum auction on 10/3/09). On a positive note, the book does include the one-of-one 1965 Hurst Gee-TO Tiger and the only factory-supplied GTO pace car - the 1965 Hurst Motor Trend Riverside "500" Pace Car. It also includes the 1-of-14 convertible '70 Ram Air IV GTO Judge and the 1-of-17 convertible '71 GTO Judge (one just sold for a bargain $246K at the Mecum auction on 5/22/10).

For Mopar fans, the book includes numerous ultra-desirable Hemi cars: the convertible '70-71 Hemi Cuda's and Hemi Challengers as well as a '69 Hemi Daytona Charger, but no mention of the '70 Plymouth Hemi Superbird (nor the extremely rare '67 & '70 Hemi Coronet R/T convertible with only 2 made each of those years). It also includes a 1968 Mr.Norm's GSS 440 Dodge Dart. No mention of the 1970/71 Rapid Transit Duster (the one-of-one which Dodge painted red in '70 and then green in '71 making it a "two-of-one"). That would've been a facinating story to include.

For Shelby fans, the book includes a section on the 1967 Shelby GT-500 Super Snake (one-of-three built with the 427 side-oiler and the only one with the special striping and name). It just sold for $1.3M at the Mecum auction on 5/17/13. It also includes the 1965-66 Shelby GT350 Drag Units (only 8 built), and a 1965 Shelby GT350-R (1-of-36). I was surprised to see no mention of the four one-of-one Shelbys: '68 Shelby Green Hornet, '68 Shelby Black Hornet, '69 Shelby GT350 with the Boss 302 engine, and the convertible '67 Shelby GT500 that was a test car that should have been destroyed but was somehow snuck out and saved (just sold on 5/15/09 at the Mecum auction for $825k). There was also no inclusion of the half dozen 1966 GT350 convertibles that Carroll Shelby built as gifts for his family & friends.

For Ford fans, I would have liked to have seen inclusion of the aero-wars prototype 1970 Torino King Cobra (only 3 made - 1 w/Boss 429, 1 w/429 SCJ, & 1 w/429CJ). That car had some seriously interesting history. Or how about the two Quarter Horse Mustangs also called the Composite Mustangs? (Ford had Kar Kraft start with a pair of Boss 429 Mustangs built as a potential mid-year 1970 replacement for the Boss 429). Or how about the two early 1971 Boss 302 Mustangs that Ford had to change to Boss 351's? Also, how about the Twister Special '70 Mustang Mach I's & Twister Special Torino Cobras? As a side note, there could have been mention of arguably the greatest engine built by the Big Three in the muscle car era: Ford's ultra-legendary beast 427 SOHC "Cammer" which put out 657hp @ 7500 rpm (w/dual quads) and you might find in a '64 light-weight Thunderbolt.

Mercury was left out of the book, which may not come as a big surprise to most, but it would have been good to see their aero-wars prototype included: the one-of-a-kind 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II which had a Boss 429 engine. Or the 1969 Boss 429 Mercury Cougars (only 2 made) - one which was finally found.

A good companion book would be "American Muscle" which highlights much of the Otis Chandler collection and covers a few of the gaps in this book. Another excellent book on rare muscle cars is "American Muscle Supercars: Ultimate Street Performance from Shelby, Baldwin-Motion, Mr. Norm and Other Legendary Tuners."

Akisame

If you are a Muscle Car(1960's - 1970's)enthusiast, this book is absolutely a MUST READ. The information compiled in this book and the photographs are OUTSTANDING. The Best Book I have read on this subject.
Thank you Mr. Colin Comer and Mr. David Newhardt for putting together such a GREAT book. Well worth the price!

Siramath

I bought this book for my boyfriend's father because he loves muscle cars, and he loved this book, it had all his favorites in it and he just really enjoyed reading about how the cars were made, how they came up with the models, etc. Great buy for a sports car lover!

Skunk Black

To be honest I have barely looked inside this book as I'm not interested in Muscle Cars! BUT, my son-in-law, who is nearly impossible to please with a gift, thinks I'm the greatest Mother-in-Law ever :).

Perius

I enjoyed this book as it presents some timely perspectives about some of the rarer collector muscle cars. Excellent color pictures provide appropriate details about each of the subject cars. There are also a myriad of the car's details and what makes it worthy of the escalated prices they command. Also, there are some historical dates of how the cars have sold, and resold, along with the prices. A good read which provides a more current view of the highest dollar musclecars.

Ironrunner

Son in law loved this book. Bought it for christmas a few years back.
I would recommend it so anyone who enjoys cars.

Million-Dollar Muscle Cars is a great book when it comes to reading about the best of the best. If you want to know what cars out of the muscle car era have attained that price tag; this book tells you. Great pictures of the cars and their details. A good book to have when you want to know the difference between the average muscle car and the best.