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4) Crap cars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Describes fifty of the cheapest, tackiest, and most mechanically inept cars made from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Organized by categories including sports cars, convertibles and compacts, this illustrated guide of the history of the car features over 1,200 of the world's greatest, most iconic vehicles from the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost to the Ferrari F40"--
Author
Publisher
Motorbooks, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Great collector cars are still out there--just waiting to be found! Barn Find Road Trip is the antidote to all the manufactured collector "reality" shows on TV. This is a real-world, barn-find banzai run in which auto archaeologist Tom Cotter, his car collector pal Brian Barr, and photographer Michael Alan Ross embarked on a 14-day collector-car-seeking adventure with no predetermined destinations. It's barn-find freestyle! Roaming the Southeast,...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Charting the 130-years from the arrival of horseless carriages to the advent of driverless vehicles, celebrate the automobile and the romance of the open road. Beginning with the development of the first vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine, Drive explores the early glamour of driving, motor sport, and car design, and looks at how the automobile has shaped the modern world. Revealing the advances in technology and design that have made...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Put your pedal to the metal with cars. First we learned to harness fire. Then we invented the wheel. From that point, humanity was on a collision course with a new form of personal locomotion that would leave our feet, and even horses hooves, in the dust. Hop in for a ride! From oddball inventor tinkering in their garages to global corporations, learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"WALL STREET JOURNAL reporters and authors of THE CLUB, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America, detailing the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, gearheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers, and bitter rivalries that have made F1 the world's fastest growing sport. For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, and to a lesser extent IndyCar, with Formula 1-the...
Publisher
Packard Automobile Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Program for Packard Club's national meet in June 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa. Includes list of Des Moines Packard dealers 1899-1958, selected Packard advertising and history, and an original historical work "The Peverills and the automobile", by William Peverill. This portion traces the history of the Hudson-Jones Automobile Company and successor Peverill Motor Sales Co., at one time Iowa's largest automobile distributor.
17) Salisbury concours d'elegance: an annual celebration of the fine art and design of the automobile
Publisher
Salisbury House
Pub. Date
199u
Language
English
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring more than 250 iconic models from the 1940s to the 1980s, Classic Car is a celebration of the most beautiful and innovative cars produced since the birth of mass car-ownership. Meet the designers behind these amazing machines and discover the history of the manufacturers that have brought them to life"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The car that we know - petrol or diesel-driven and operated by a human - will soon be replaced by electric cars which, in turn, will become self-driving. The reign of the car, which began in the late nineteenth century, will have lasted at most 150 years. More than any other technology - more than television, mobile phones, more even than the Internet - cars have transformed our culture. On the streets we notice people talking on their phones, but...
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