Camaro: Five Generations of Performance

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Motorbooks, 2011 M06 24 - 348 pages

With the spotlight again shining on Camaro, this big book chronicles the rich history of an American muscle car era icon. This is the full story of Camaro’s forty-plus years, accompanied by fabulous photographs of the models that made history. Beginning with Chevrolet’s race to capture the emerging youth market in the 1960s, the book follows Chevrolet’s efforts to devise a car that would out-muscle the Mustang. The Camaro was that car, and in the years after its 1967 introduction, it set some of the most important performance marks in American automotive history. From the classics of the muscle-car era like the RS, SS, Z/28, and IROC-Z to the models that jumpstarted a new era of American performance in the 1980s, all of Camaro’s greatest hits are detailed in this extraordinary book. In flashing color and fine detail, Camaro captures the innovations and fierce competition as well as the changes in style and technology that make the story of this legendary car a part of the American automotive story.

 

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Darwin Holmstrom has written or co-written many books on motorcycles and muscle cars, including the bestselling Camaro: Five Generations of Speed, BMW Motorcycles, Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection, GTO: Pontiac's Great One, Hemi Muscle Cars, Camaro: Forty Years, Muscle: America's Legendary Performance Cars, Billy Lane Chop Fiction, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles, and many others. He is the senior acquisitions editor for Motorbooks, where he has worked for the past thirteen years. David Newhardt (Pasadena, California) is one of the best automobile photographers working today. He is the author of such bestselling books as American Muscle Supercars: Ultimate Street Performance from Shelby, Mr. Norm and Other Legendary Tuners, Art of the Muscle Car, and Firebird Trans Am. He has also provided photography for GTO: Pontiac's Great One, Camaro: Five Generations of Performance, Muscle: America's Legendary Performance Cars, Shelby Mustang: Racer for the Street, and many other publications. Official Website: www.davidnewhardt.com

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