Muscle Cars: The American Road

American iron at full chrome, in the light that shows the paint.Seventy-one large plates take the muscle car apart and put it back together: the long hood and the stacked carburettors, a blower standing through a cut bonnet, headers curling out of a cylinder head, a gauge cluster hooded against the sun, buckets either side of a pistol-grip shifter. Between them the whole cars - a convertible with the deck lid down, a fastback in pure profile, the rare long-roof wagon, and three carrying original airbrushed murals: a dragon down the flank, a phoenix across the hood, a koi curving with a door.A short note sits beside each plate: why a blower costs power to make power, why the pistol grip is shaped the way it is, why candy colour has depth that flat paint does not. Every picture runs to the edge of the page and the wide frames open across the gutter.No badges, no marque names, no logos - the look is the hero. A large full-colour volume for a table, a workshop shelf, or a gift to somebody who still turns round in the street.