<b>In <i>Day One</i>, automotive journalist Marty Schorr recalls life on the front line in the classic muscle car era, thrashing brand-new cars that would become collector vehicles.</b> <br /> <br /> Most muscle-car books celebrate beautifully-restored vehicles surrounded by hard facts; <i>Day One</i> tells the real story from the point-of-view of one of the <b> period's most respected automotive journalists</b>, Marty Schorr. For the first time in print, you'll get a unique perspective on what it was like to actually <b>drive</b>, <b>race</b>, and otherwise <b>thrash </b>what are some of today's most valuable collector cars. <br /> <br /> <i>CARS</i>, the iconic magazine Marty wrote and edited didn't rely on industry advertising for revenue. Instead, the magazine made money the old fashioned way, from newsstand sales, leaving it able to be honest and frank in its coverage of high-performance street cars. <i>CARS</i> magazine reported on both Day stock and modified cars, cars the traditional magazines wouldn't touch, like the <b>ultra-high-performance vehicles</b> from companies like Baldwin-Motion, Yenko Chevrolet, Nickey Chevrolet, Royal Pontiac, and Tasca Ford. <br /> <br /> Prepare yourself for <i>Day One</i> to cover the most important cars of a given year, including: <ul> <li>Pontiac's 1962-1963 lightweight Super-Duty 421 street and Swiss Cheese models</li> <li>Chevrolet's 1963 big-block 427 Mystery Motor and ZL-1 Impala.</li> <li>Ford 1963 1/2 427/425 Galaxie fastback</li> <li>The 1964 Ramchargers</li> <li>The first 426 Street Hemi</li> <li>Cotton-Owens prepared Hemi Coronet</li> <li>A 1966 Olds Twin-Engined (850 cubic inches) Grant Toronado, currently owned by Jay Leno</li> <li>A prototype 1966 Plymouth 426 Street Hemi Satellite</li> <li>One of two 427 SOHC Galaxies prototypes</li> <li>A '67 Royal Bobcat GTO</li> <li>Plymouth's original '68 Hemi Road Runner</li> <li>Hurst-built Plymouth & Dodge 1968 Hemi-Darts and Hemi-Cudas<br /> </li> </ul>
<p><b>This is the car that launched the muscle car era and gave the Baby Boomers high-speed wings.</b></p> <p>Trivia freaks might know that Pontiac's "GTO" means "Gran Turismo Omologato," but muscle car fans know it earned its nicknamea?a??The Great Onea?a??at a time when America built the greatest cars on earth. It wasn't the fastest, the most powerful, or the most outrageous muscle car, but Pontiac's GTO resides at the very top of the pantheon because it was the first.</p> <p><i>Pontiac GTO 50 Years: The Original Muscle Car</i> follows the rise of this iconic vehicle from the day in 1963 when Chief Engineer John Z. DeLorean bolted a 389-cubic-inch GTO engine into a prototype Tempest coupe through the final GTO rendition in 2006. Wedding that massive V-8 to a mid-size GM chassis created one of the fastest production cars of the time but also made it a car just about anyone with a job could afford.</p> <p>It started as an option package that was supposed to be limited to 5,000 units. Instead, word of mouth pushed sales to more than six times that many in its first year.</p> <p>Hundreds of photographs round out this thoroughly researched history and offer insight into the vehicle that, through redesigns, repackages, and relaunches, came of age with the Baby Boomer generation. From classic 1960s models to the GTO's revival in 2004, the exhilarating story of the outlaw that should never have beena?a??and will never be againa?a??will thrill any auto enthusiast.</p>
<p><b>Your one-stop manual for every aspect of DIY motorcycle electrical repair and modification.</b> We've all stood at the front desk of a repair shop at some point, staring at an invoice, gritting our teeth and nursing our injured wallets. All vehicles will inevitably need maintenance - and we pay a premium in labor fees every time we take them in - but unlike an automobile, which has its electrical components hermetically sealed within its bodywork, the electrical components on a motorcycle are on display for all the world to see. Out in the open, they are constantly subjected to destructive elements like rain, sand, salt, dust, and ultraviolet rays . . . virtually everyone who owns a motorcycle will eventually have to deal with electrical problems. In <i>How to Troubleshoot, Repair, and Modify Motorcycle Electrical Systems</i>, motorcycle expert <b>Tracy Martin</b> provides crystal-clear, fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions for every electrical repair imaginable on a bike--from the nuts-and-bolts basics to fuel-injection systems, onboard computers, repair and installation of factory and aftermarket accessories, and everything else in between. Complete with 600 full-color, how-to photos and 20 helpful diagrams, <i>How to Troubleshoot, Repair, and Modify Motorcycle Electrical Systems</i> will keep your bike on the road and your wallet in your pocket.</p>