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[Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords]

My east coast guess was right but the publisher was much smaller than I thought. Same photos = digging in the archives to create content at a lower cost.

Muscle Cars was published by Stephen Schneider at CSK Publishing. The magazine was sub-titled as "The World's Number One Muscle Car Magazine" and published in both Hackensack and Saddle Brook, New Jersey. It was launched with other competitor titles in the dedicated muscle car space between 1983 and 1988, all with muscle car profiles, restoration tips, technical information and in-depth reviews of reproduction parts.

The magazine started as part of the Schneider Performance Series. Seven issues were published in 1983 and 1984 that included Corvette Special, Pontiac Annual, Best of Vette and this title. The initial numbering used both volume and series numbering as well as quarter and year designations. After these first few issues, CSK dropped reference to the quarter and year starting in 1985 and only used a volume and issue numbering scheme which was interspersed and branded with Cars Illustrated.

In 1988, the publisher returned to more conventional patterns of numbering including use of the month and year designation. The "Schneider Performance Series" label on front covers was dropped in 1991.

CSK Publishing had numerous other titles in its portfolio including: Vette, High Performance Pontiac, High Performance Mopar, Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords, and, Bracket Racing USA. These titles were sold to the McMullen Argus Publishing division of Primedia in 1997.

Might be this guy - probably a spec writer who pens and then sends it off to various places for publication.
Peter James is a renowned international crime-thriller author (best known for the Roy Grace series) who doubles as a passionate automotive journalist and classic car racer. He writes engaging motoring features, reviews, and has famously documented the thrill and dangers of racing vintage vehicles.

The dragstrip is Englishtown in NJ and both cars are NJ - look at the NY published books - Automobile, Cars Illustrated even Car & Driver that had a strong east coast leaning. Popular Science & Popular Mechanix too but they were more about reviewing new stuff.

Not in the 50s when this was created. I was writing for Kit Car . . . . . . .

    I think you've drunk to much of the "Kool-Aid"! 

    Scott.

You lose a lot of timeline removing text. When I was at Kit Kar was the 80s. 

. . . . . . without playing pretend

    But actually, isn't that what every "kit" (re-creation, reproduction, reincarnation, replication, continuation, clone, copy, fake, etc.) car is about?   

    Scott.

Not in the 50s when this was created. This one does have some Pininfarina flavor but it's very much a homogenized euro look. In this era there were a lot of guys buying glass bodies to build sports racing cars for SCCA. 60s and 70s is when the cloning started. When I was writing for Kit Car we did a Cobra issue every year listing all the manufacturers. At that time 52 companies were making everything from bare body shells to completed rollers less engine/trans.

He should have left it alone - https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1960-byers-sr-100/

The Byers SR-100 is a highly sought-after 1950s American sports car kit. Designed by Jim Byers, it features a hand-laid fiberglass body built for a 100-inch wheelbase. Weighing just 125 lbs, the body was famously featured on the February 1957 cover of Road & Track, where publisher John Bond dubbed it "The World's Most Beautiful Sports Car".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FoBRNuP0f8

Maybe explain that it IS an American car that was built in California and was imported by an owner to Canada and is now merely returning to the US.
I ran into similar problems in CA when I tried to title the SHOGUN prototype that had gone to Canada. I even showed them the original shipping docs and which ship it arrived in CA on and the orig dealer paperwork when it was sold. It even had CA Bureau of Auto Repair certs for the engine swap. In the end CA was not budging so I took it to NV and titled it there. Now it's in Germany and you wouldn't believe the hoops they made that guy jump through.

Some on FleaBay - rebuilt orig w/repop rods

That is a true statement Coralsnake because I still don't know how many supercharged grabber orange Shelby GT's there are and they have a registry that my car is in and they gave me the paperwork. Not a gripe or wine on my part but at some point, it would be nice to know the car is a 2008.

You will never know the answer. They hide the registry because if everyone knew there have been 130,000+ NEW Shelbys built people would realize they are not a rare collectable.
The certificate they show is the one that comes when you paid CS to autograph something. Since I don't see a signature on the dash I'd assume if came with one of the diecast cars they sell.

Iconic "Pony Car". Muscle cars were defined in that era as mid size cars with big block engines. 

A couple more

This one?

Did a fluid and filter last summer and it still had the yellow plug in the pan so it was never apart.
The water pump in my one Pierce needs to be repacked, My Mach1 is in the middle of replacing the original hoses. Maybe I'm tempted fate by taking my other Pierce out for 40 miles to a cruise night. I mean what else could go wrong....

Now at 76 I'm leaning towards my dad's advise - it it ain't broke don't fix it.
Took our 29 Model A for a spin yesterday. I had just fixed a broken crank pulley in it - It has a modern leakless water pump no repacking and adjusting. I guess if they'd made 5 million Pierce Arrows there would be one for them.....

Until 1968 there was no standardized federal VIN system. Each manufacturer decided on what and where the serial number should be and where it should be located. Some states used body numbers and others motor numbers. There are a lot of cars floating around that were registered by the motor number and with an engine swap they no longer match the paperwork.

BTW: The SFM6S843 stamped on the block is in addition to the Ford stamped 5R09K number that was stamped by them. Since the Ford numbers were never used or seen outside of SA accounting it makes sense to have a way to tie the block to the car in an era when so little was known of these cars. When I bought 843 in 1975 I had gotten a call from a friend who was getting out of the Army and wanted a GT350. We weren't even sure what we were looking at. Red/automatic - gee weren't they all white with blue stripes or all the automatics black with gold stripes. I recalled an old article that mentioned the cables on the rear axle. They were there so we figured it was real. In the end he passed on the car and bought a 65. So I made a deal on 843.

......As far as clamps go the correct term for this type of clamp is "Adel" and they were/are used in a wide spread of applications.

True - used a lot in all things military. There were bins full of them at every surplus outlet around SoCal. You'd go in fill up a bag of what you needed and they would weigh it and charge you about 25 cents a pound. Most of the race cars in LA had surplus clamps, bolts, AN lines, etc. I'd wager SA's parts guy was making regular restocking trips. By the mid 90s we were down to one surviving surplus store in Burbank. I was able to walk in and get a few AN lines for a Rondeau we were putting back together.

Holley is being bought out by allstar performance i was told.

I think Isky is the only speed company that wasn't swallowed up by big corporate mergers and buy outs.
Sentinel Capital Partners: A private equity firm that acquired Holley in 2018 and merged it with Driven Performance Brands. When Holley went public via a de-SPAC merger in 2021, Sentinel kept a major controlling stake in the parent company.