The All-American Muscle Car; The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Detroit's Greatest Performance Cars General Motors Author: Tony Thacker and Mike

Author: Tony Thacker and Mike Herman

the GM LS engine has become the dominant V-8 engine in GM vehicles and a top-selling high-performance crate engine

Prior to this the company had offered commercial cars

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The All-American Muscle Car; The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Detroit's Greatest Performance Cars General Motors Author: Tony Thacker and MikeWhen John Z. DeLorean and his cadre of enthusiastic rule benders took it upon themselves to bolt Pontiac's hottest engine into a mid sized Tempest, disobeying 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 resulting GTO spearheaded a new breed of performance car aimed at a new breed of buyer: the baby boom generation, tens of millions of young customers