In the early 1960s, Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned champion race driver, had the audacity to think he could start his own car manufacturing company. To further emphasize the gargantuan proportions of his confidence, Shelby decided his company would manufacture nothing but ultra-high-p[...]

The birth of the muscle car, mid-sized cars with big engines and big horsepower, marked not only a revolution in performance-but also a revolution in marketing. For the first time ever, American car manufacturers tailored their product to a youth audience. The genre thrived in the 60s and early 70s [...]