ROBERT GENAT
Chevy SS is highly recommended and [a] core addition to personal, academic or community libraries, American Automotive History reference collections, and reading lists.
MidwestBookReview.com
As big and blocky as the cars it celebrates, this 350-page hardback is dominated by David Newhardts fine color photography.
Octane
During the classic muscle car era, American cars meant performance. Driving an American muscle car meant driving the baddest machine on the road. Every detail of the car backed this up. Engine badges gave other street racers a clue on just how badly they were about to be stomped in a stoplight drag race. Even the striping meant something, and no stripes meant more than the twin skunk stripes running from the hood to the trunk of Chevrolet's mighty Super Sports.
Regardless of which Super Sport model those stripes graced -- agile Camaros with lightweight small blocks and fabulous F41 suspensions, luxurious Impalas with their monstrous big-block engines, or LS6-equipped Chevelles with the most powerful engine of the entire muscle car era -- the name "Super Sport" screamed mind-bending performance.
Chevy SS: 50 Years of Super Sport relives the complete story of these iconic automobiles, from the Corvette racing prototype of 1957 to the V-8-powered Super Sports of the twenty-first century. With new photography of all major Super Sport models, this is the first book to do justice to Chevrolet's fantastic Super Sports.
Chevy SS includes such beloved muscle cars as the Chevelle, the Camaro, the El Camino, the Malibu, the Monte Carlo, right up to today's Impala SS.
About the Authors:
Robert Genat
Robert Genat is an acoomplished author and photographer who has written 23 books for Motorbooks. A self-proclaimed "gearhead," Robert has restored two classic cars in the last 10 years (one of which was featured in a nationally syndicated television show) and has recently completed a chopped '32 five-window coupe.
David Newhardt
David Newhardt has earned a reputation as one of today's leading muscle car authors and photographers. He has published several books about the amazing performance machines Detroit cranked out during the golden age of muscle cars.
