The book, The American Sports Car, is an exciting, fact filled volume that reviews a full array of American sports cars.  While the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Thunderbird are reviewed so to are the Mercer, Stutz, AMX, Excalibur, Nash-Healey, Shelby, Dual-Ghia and many more.  These powerful, expertly engineered and styled cars are equally at home on the highway or on the track.  They come from large manufacturers and superb designers.  Although cars from the 1945 to 1970 are the focal point of this book, outstanding earlier and later vehicles are also covered.  Each vehicle reviewed in "The American Sports Car" is full of information on body design, chassis type, engine specifications, road and track performance information and original selling price.  The major sections and sub-groupings in "The American Sports Car" are as follows: 1) Introduction; 2) In the Beginning - (Mercer & Stutz); 3) American Sports Cars - (AMX, Apollo, Arnolt, Corvette, Crosley, Cunningham & Devin); 4) Color Showcase I - (Dual-Ghia, Edwards, Excalibur, Thunderbird, Gaylord, Kaiser-Darrin, Kurtis Muntz, Nash-Healey, Shelby & Woodill); 5) Color Showcase II Dreams from Detroit - (Chrysler, General Motors & Packard) and 6) Foreign Bodies-American Muscle - (AC Cobra, Allard, Bristol, De Tomaso, Jensen & Sources).  In addition to an informative narrative, "The American Sports Car" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 101 black and white vintage photographs; 2) About 31 color photographs and 3) 17 black and white illustrations.  In the end, this book does a credible job of telling the story of the men who created the sports cars, the drivers who raced them, as well as, the cars themselves.  This book is 96 pages and is in very good condition.  Produced by the editors of Consumer Guide.  Edition published in 1979.