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Darwin Holmstrom - автор 4 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: GTO: Pontiac's Great One, Pontiac GTO 50 years: The original muscle car, Top Muscle: The Rarest Cars from America's Fastest Decade. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Historians rightly peg the birth of the Pontiac GTO to one spring day in 1963. That day Pontiac's Chief Engineer John DeLorean and his two favorite staff engineers, Bill Collins and Russ Gee, came up with the inspired idea of mounting a high-performance 389-cubic-inch V-8 engine in the Tempest, which was Pontiac division's version of General Motors' then new corporate A-body interme...
When Pontiac created the original muscle car by unleashing the GTO, it reshaped the automotive world like a four-inch piston going through a three-inch cylinder bore. Everything changed the moment John Zachery DeLorean and his crew of hot-rodding miscreants bolted a big engine into a small car and created the 1964 GTO. In Pontiac GTO 50 Years: The Original Muscle Car, author Darwin Holmstrom ex...
A muscle-car book unlike any other, featuring the rarest vehicles on Earth. In the 1960s, something explosive happened in the automotive world: the United States' evolving V-8 engine technology was met by 75 million baby boomers, all with an extreme need for speed and all entering the auto market at the same time. The result was the golden era of factory muscle cars, brutish machines that wer...
A muscle car symbolizes freedom. It was freedom that brought the muscle car into existence - the freedom of cheap gas and open roads, the freedom offered by the postwar American dream, the freedom to go just about anywhere and do just about anything. When Pontiac marketed its GTO to the baby-boom generation, the cars, the people who drove them, and the times in which the two came together led to o...
