Description
In Day One, automotive journalist Marty Schorr recalls life on the front line in the classic muscle car era, thrashing brand-new cars that would change into collector vehicles.
Most muscle-car books celebrate beautifully-restored vehicles surrounded by hard facts; Day One tells the real story from the point-of-view of one of the period’s most respected automotive journalists, Marty Schorr. For the first time in print, you’ll get a unique standpoint on what it used to be like to in fact drive, race, and in a different way thrash what are some of today’s most valuable collector cars.
CARS, the iconic magazine Marty wrote and edited didn’t rely on industry advertising for revenue. As a substitute, the magazine made money the old school way, from newsstand sales, leaving it ready to be honest and frank in its coverage of high-performance street cars. CARS magazine reported on both Day stock and modified cars, cars the traditional magazines wouldn’t touch, like the ultra-high-performance vehicles from companies like 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley-Motion, Yenko Chevrolet, Nickey Chevrolet, Royal Pontiac, and Tasca Ford.
Prepare yourself for Day One to cover an important cars of a given year, including:
Most muscle-car books celebrate beautifully-restored vehicles surrounded by hard facts; Day One tells the real story from the point-of-view of one of the period’s most respected automotive journalists, Marty Schorr. For the first time in print, you’ll get a unique standpoint on what it used to be like to in fact drive, race, and in a different way thrash what are some of today’s most valuable collector cars.
CARS, the iconic magazine Marty wrote and edited didn’t rely on industry advertising for revenue. As a substitute, the magazine made money the old school way, from newsstand sales, leaving it ready to be honest and frank in its coverage of high-performance street cars. CARS magazine reported on both Day stock and modified cars, cars the traditional magazines wouldn’t touch, like the ultra-high-performance vehicles from companies like 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley-Motion, Yenko Chevrolet, Nickey Chevrolet, Royal Pontiac, and Tasca Ford.
Prepare yourself for Day One to cover an important cars of a given year, including:
- Pontiac’s 1962-1963 lightweight Super-Duty 421 street and Swiss Cheese models
- Chevrolet’s 1963 big-block 427 Mystery Motor and ZL-1 Impala.
- Ford 1963 ½ 427/425 Galaxie fastback
- The 1964 Ramchargers
- The first 426 Street Hemi
- Cotton-Owens prepared Hemi Coronet
- A 1966 Olds Twin-Engined (850 cubic inches) Grant Toronado, currently owned by Jay Leno
- A prototype 1966 Plymouth 426 Street Hemi Satellite
- One of two 427 SOHC Galaxies prototypes
- A ’67 Royal Bobcat GTO
- Plymouth’s original ’68 Hemi Road Runner
- Hurst-built Plymouth & Dodge 1968 Hemi-Darts and Hemi-Cudas
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