Chevy SS
The Super Sport Story
Published on 19. June 2012
348 pages
978-1-61058-549-1 (ISBN)
Description
On the 1957 auto show circuit, Chevrolet unveiled a show car based on its Corvette and dubbed it the "Super Sport." The performance car world took one look and never looked back. A combination of styling and performance upgrades, the SS package could turn something as mundane as a six-cylinder Malibu into the fire-breathing Chevelle SS396. This book traces the long line of legendary SS models, from Chevy's Super Sport version of its popular Impala, which marked the dawn of the muscle car era, to today's Impala SS. Featuring the work of acclaimed photo ace David Newhardt, Chevy SS: The Super Sport Story provides a close-up, detailed, full-color look at such classic muscle cars as the Chevelle, the El Camino, the Malibu, and the Monte Carlo as well as today's hot Camaro SS. The book is a fittingly elegant celebration of the cars that redefined "high performance" and defined an era.
Reviews / Votes
MidwestBookReview.com, May 2007"Chevy SS is highly recommended and [a] core addition to personal, academic or community libraries, American Automotive History reference collections, and reading lists."
Octane, June 2007
"As big and blocky as the cars it celebrates, this 350-page hardback is dominated by David Newhardt's fine color photography." Car Collector Magazine, December 2007
"A great deal of attention is paid the Camaro SS, which played a significant role in the Chevy Pony Car's immediate popularity and showroom sales battle with the Mustang. In fact, only the Impala SS and Chevelle SS have more pages dedicated to them than the Camaro. In six chapters the author manages to get as much history and detail, touching on the finer points of engines, options, and features, as you can pack into 128 pages, plus an impressive 122 images. For Chevy fans, if you don't already have the hard cover edition, you can pick this new soft cover copy up for a song." "If, however, you are looking for a true gem to add to your automotive library, this diamond is a real bargain." - Jim Hinckley, Cars and Parts
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Beverly
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
308 color & 8 b-w images
ISBN-13
978-1-61058-549-1 (9781610585491)
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06/2012
Motorbooks
€50.95
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Persons
Robert Genat is an accomplished author and photographer who has written more than 23 books for Motorbooks. A self-proclaimed EURoegearhead,EUR? Robert has restored several classic cars. Genat lives in Encinitas, California.David Newhardt has been photographing vehicles for more than three decades, including a stint at Motor Trend, authoring 17 automotive books, and supplying images to scores of books and magazines. Currently Chief Photographer at Mecum Auctions, David continues to photograph and write about everything automotive. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, and he served eight years on nuclear submarines. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he currently lives in the Nashville, Tennessee area.
