The Art of Mopar: Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth Muscle Cars [Hardcover]

The Art of Mopar: Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth Muscle Cars is the ultimate portrayal of history's ultimate muscle cars. This is the ultimate visual history of greatest muscle cars.

The history of Chrysler Corporation is, in many ways, a history of a company floundering from one financial crisis to the next. While that has given shareholdersfits for nearly a century, it has also motivated the Pentastar company tocreate some of the most outrageous, and collectible, cars ever builtin the United States.

From the moment Chrysler unleashed the Firepower hemi V-8 engine on the world for the 1951 model year, they had beencranking out the most powerful engines on the market. Because the company pioneered the use of lightweight unibody technology, it had the stiffest, lightest bodies in which to put those most powerful engines, and that is the basic muscle-car formula:add one powerful engine to one light car.

When the muscle car era exploded onto the scene, Chrysler unleashed the mightyMopar muscle cars, the Dodges and Plymouths thatdefined the era. Fabled nameplates likeCharger,Road Runner,Super Bee,'Cuda, andChallengerdefined the era and rank among the most valuable collector cars ever produced by an American automaker.

Since 1983,Tom Glatchhas contributed hundreds of stories and photographs to major collector, Corvette, Mustang, muscle car, and Mopar magazines. Tom grew up during the muscle car era, and his first car was a very quick 1970 Plymouth Duster 340. Tom and his wife Kelly have contributed photographs to books by other Motorbooks authors, as well as Motorbooks' Corvette calendars. When not pursuing old muscle cars, Tom works for a Fortune 500 corporation as a data and systems analyst and developer. He lives in southeastern Wisconsin.

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