This original copy is signed by award-winning writer, Randy Leffingwell and world-renowned photographer, David Newhardt.

In 1963, John Z. DeLorean and a group of maverick engineers from Pontiac bolted a big-inch engine in the division's intermediate chassis and invented teh classic muscle car. In the twenty minutes it took Bill Collings and Russ Fee to bolt a 389 engine into a Tempest chassis and created the prototype for Pontiac's GTO, the men changed the course of automotive history. From that moment on American performance cars would never be the same.

Muscle: America's Legnedary Performance Cars chronicles the creation of the GTO, along with the other brutal machines that emerged from Detroit auto factories during the classic muscle car era. From the first hot rods created by bolting Ardun heads and Edelbrock manifolds to Ford flathead V-8 engines to the 500-plus horsepower muscle cars built today, this books takes readers through a history of the uniquely American interpretation of high performance.