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Darwin Holmstrom is the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Motorbooks, a wonderful source for the worlds best transportation books for almost 50 years. He’s been a part of the team for the past fourteen years. Darwin has written or co-written over two-dozen books on motorcycles and muscle cars, including the best-selling books Top Muscle, Lucifer’s Sword MC, Let’s Ride, Camaro: Five Generations of Performance, BMW Motorcycles, The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection, GTO, Camaro, Billy Lane Chop Fiction, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles, and many others.
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“My life has been a series of failures.” – Soichiro Honda
CAREER CHALLENGE
Darwin has had some pretty bad motorcycle accidents while racing bikes. One where he came off his bike at 127 mph at Brainerd Raceway. The recovery process has taught him much more than simply healing his body. Listen to how in a way they got him to where he is today.
AH-HA MOMENT
While working in a job at a sugar beat factory that Darwin absolutely hated he met a person who changed his life. Listen to how with just a few words, Darwin’s perspective on life was changed forever.
FIRST SPECIAL CAR
A 1970 Duster with a 340 four-barrel four speed.
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
Never buy a new car.
FAVORITE RESOURCE
MX5 Miata – www.miata.net
FAVORITE BOOK
Top Muscle – Darwin Holmstrom
PARTING ADVICE
Do what you love.
HOW TO FIND DARWIN
Motorbooks – www.motorbooks.com
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I just purchased the book, “A Full Throttle History, American Muscle Cars”. I was very disappointed. This book was advertised to include modern muscle as well but the information post 1974 was lacking. As an example and case in point, there was no informative mention of the 2004-2006 GTO. This car was Pontiac’s attempt to reintroduce a real, rear wheel performance car. Perhaps the GTO wasn’t “American”, but, I know you know better, and I will not go into that discussion here. I feel that this is a noteworthy mark in American performance history and to see this car as being avoided in your book, has me ultimately returning this book to Amazon.
Touted as a definitive history of American muscle – not in my book.
Hmmm…. I read the same book as Frank (above) and thought the information on the 2004 – 2006 GTO was well written! Didn’t see any photos of that GTO which may be why Frank missed it? I absolutely loved the book. Couldn’t put it down!