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2) 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.
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
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive. In Are We There Yet?, Dan Albert combines historical scholarship with personal narrative to explore how car culture has suffused America's DNA. The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built our economy, won our wars, and shaped our democratic creed as it moved us about. Driver's ed made teenagers into citizens; auto repair made boys into men. Crusades against the automobile are nothing...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"This entertaining book navigates readers through the history of car production and offers a front-seat view of the science and engineering that makes the world's most important vehicle safe for us to drive."--
Author
Publisher
Motorbooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, Mattel introduced the first 16 Hot Wheels cars and revolutionised the world of toy cars. Fifty years and a few billion cars later, Hot Wheels are still number one. These die-cast cars are a hot collectible and a favourite toy for kids of all ages. Hot Wheels recounts the story of the world's fastest toy cars from the initial brainstorm to today's top models and sets. Officially licensed with Mattel, it reveals why the cars are so fast, how...
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