Day One: An Automotive Journalist'S Musclecar Memoir

In Day One, automotive journalist Marty Schorr recalls life on the front line in the classic muscle car era, thrashing brandnew cars that would become collector vehicles.Most musclecar books celebrate beautifullyrestored vehicles surrounded by hard facts; Day One tells the real story from the pointofview of one of the periods most respected automotive journalists, Marty Schorr. For the first time in print, youll get a unique perspective on what it was like to actually drive, race, and otherwise 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. Instead, the magazine made money the old fashioned way, from newsstand sales, leaving it able to be honest and frank in its coverage of highperformance street cars. CARS magazine reported on both Day stock and modified cars, cars the traditional magazines wouldn't touch, like the ultrahighperformance vehicles from companies like BaldwinMotion, Yenko Chevrolet, Nickey Chevrolet, Royal Pontiac, and Tasca Ford.Prepare yourself for Day One to cover the most important cars of a given year, including: Pontiacs 19621963 lightweight SuperDuty 421 street and Swiss Cheese models Chevrolets 1963 bigblock 427 Mystery Motor and ZL1 Impala. Ford 1963 427/425 Galaxie fastback The 1964 Ramchargers The first 426 Street Hemi CottonOwens prepared Hemi Coronet A 1966 Olds TwinEngined (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 Plymouths original 68 Hemi Road Runner Hurstbuilt Plymouth & Dodge 1968 HemiDarts and HemiCudas