The Great Book Of American Automobiles

Author : Andrew Montgomery
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760314764

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The Great Book of American Automobiles by Andrew Montgomery Pdf

Explore this encyclopedia of cars complemented by an exciting story about the social and economic climate of American culture. This massive 512 page book charts the progress of the automobile in America from 1907, through the explosive automotive creativity of the fifties and the renaissance of the nineties, and on to the future of the industry. It highlights the work of the big three, Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, and also covers the smaller companies that didn't survive the thirties and forties like Crosley, Packard and Studebaker.The history of the automobile in America is in many ways the story of the American dream. The best and the worst, the successes and the failures, the classics and the bizarre - the cars that America has taken to her heart have defined American culture.The ten years following World War I in America saw the birth of mobility for the masses as car ownership changed from being a privilege of a wealthy minority to an essential part of the American way of life. Hardcover, 9" x 12", 512 pages, 500 color & 20 b/w photos

Author : John Heitmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476669359

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The Automobile and American Life, 2d ed. by John Heitmann Pdf

Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have changed over time. It details cars' inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the wealthy; racing and the promotion of the industry; Henry Ford and the advent of mass production; market competition during the 1920s; the development of roads and accompanying highway culture; the effects of the Great Depression and World War II; the automotive Golden Age of the 1950s; oil crises and the turbulent 1970s; the decline and then resurgence of the Big Three; and how American car culture has been represented in film, music and literature. Updated notes and a select bibliography serve as valuable resources to those interested in automotive history.

Author : Richard M. Flammang,Richard M. Langworth,James R. Flammang,James R. Langworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 1561737283

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Great American Automobiles of the 60s by Richard M. Flammang,Richard M. Langworth,James R. Flammang,James R. Langworth Pdf

Author : Craig Cheetham
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780785832737

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Classic American Cars by Craig Cheetham Pdf

From the turn of the twentieth century through to the present day, the book traces the development of the automobile, reflecting the social change it both brought, and reflected.

Author : Dan Albert
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780393292756

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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless by Dan Albert Pdf

Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive. Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into responsible drivers, are we ready to be a nation of passengers? 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 new. Its arrival sparked battles over street space, pitting the masses against the millionaires who terrorized pedestrians. When the masses got cars of their own, they learned to love driving too. During World War II, Washington nationalized Detroit and postwar Americans embraced car and country as if they were one. Then came 1960s environmentalism and the energy crises of the 1970s. Many predicted, even welcomed, the death of the automobile. But many more rose to its defense. They embraced trucker culture and took to Citizen Band radios, demanding enough gas to keep their big boats afloat. Since the 1980s, the car culture has triumphed and we now drive more miles than ever before. Have we reached the end of the road this time? Fewer young people are learning to drive. Ride hailing is replacing car buying, and with electrification a long and noble tradition of amateur car repair—to say nothing of the visceral sound of gasoline exploding inside a big V8—will come to an end. When a robot takes over the driver’s seat, what’s to become of us? Are We There Yet? carries us from muddy tracks to superhighways, from horseless buggies to driverless electric vehicles. Like any good road trip, it’s an adventure so fun you don’t even notice how much you’ve learned along the way.

Author : Jonathan Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 1851710310

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Great American Cars by Jonathan Wood Pdf

Author : Matt DeLorenzo
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0785835245

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Legendary American Automobiles by Matt DeLorenzo Pdf

Legendary American Automobiles is a richly illustrated volume that profiles the most renowned vehicles to be built in the USA, from the pre-assembly line era to modern times. Since the days of Henry Ford’s Model T, American cars have dominated not only the market, but also the imagination and desires of millions of people around the world. Dedicated to the exciting legacy of this iconic automobile, Legendary American Automobiles presents a complete overview of the history of the American car. This exhaustively written by one of the most famous journalists in the field, Matt DeLorenzo, this volume is also enhanced by illustrations that capture the exhilaration, aesthetics, and charm of these legendary vehicles. Where many books provide a basic catalog of American automobiles, Legendary American Automobiles takes a very different approach. Here you will see engineering details and styling advances, as well as the effect of the social and economic environments at the time. Beginning with the automobile’s early days and Henry Ford’s invention of the assembly line and continuing until modern times, this intriguing, richly illustrated volume traces the entire history of American automobiles. Whether luxury-market or average-family models, the American car is a dream possession and cult object famous and desired through the world.

Author : Paul Ingrassia
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812980752

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Crash Course by Paul Ingrassia Pdf

“A definitive account . . . It’s hard to imagine anyone better than Paul Ingrassia to ‘ride shotgun’ on a journey through the sometimes triumphant, often turbulent, history of U.S. automaking. . . . [A] wealth of amusing, astonishing and enlightening nuggets.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry’s rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit’s Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit’s boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit’s self-destruction inevitable? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry—the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration’s stake in Detroit’s recovery—Crash Course addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America? With an updated Afterword by the author Praise for Crash Course “In order to understand just how much of a mess it was—not to mention how it got that way and how, if at all, it can be cleaned up—you really need to read Crash Course.”—The Washinton Post “Ingrassia tells Detroit’s story with economy, vigour and restrained fury.”—The Economist “A delightful mix of history and first-person reporting . . . Employing superb storytelling skills, Ingrassia explains in head-shaking detail the elements of a wholly avoidable collision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author : G. N. Georgano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Automobile engineers
ISBN : 0765196328

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Art of the American Automobile by G. N. Georgano Pdf

A big, beautiful car book with a different slant. Eminent British automotive writer Georgano partners with an outstanding car photographer from his own country, Nicky Wright, to produce a testament to the dictum "the automobile is art." Their focus is on individual car stylists who adhered to the philosophy that the automobile "has to sell on its appearance as much as on its mechanical qualities." The men profiled here were not (and are not) specialty designers of custom cars but employees of big car companies who devoted themselves to beautifying cars sold to a mass market.

Author : Matt DeLorenzo
Publisher : White Star Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 8854407097

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American Cars by Matt DeLorenzo Pdf

Stunning color photographs and a lively narrative by one of today's foremost automotive writers tell the story of America's ongoing love affair with cars. Featuring classic cars, sports cars, and luxury automobiles, this handsome book brings together pictures and descriptions of the most impressive blends of technology, art, beauty, and adventure.

Author : Paul Ingrassia,Joseph B. White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476737478

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Comeback by Paul Ingrassia,Joseph B. White Pdf

In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three emerge as formidable global competitors. Comeback is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters -- Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others -- and their greed, pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.

Author : Haynes Publishing PLC
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : 0854297405

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50 Years of American Automobiles from 1939 by Haynes Publishing PLC Pdf

Author : Paul Ingrassia,Joseph B. White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0684804379

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Comeback by Paul Ingrassia,Joseph B. White Pdf

Documents the collapse and comeback of America's largest industry in a saga of greed and stubbornness, spotlighting dedicated managers, engineers, and financiers.

Author : Tad Burness
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780316506953

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My Dad Had That Car by Tad Burness Pdf

This one-of-a-kind, massive illustrated history of more than 10,000 American automobiles is perfect for the millions of classic car enthusiasts. With more than 1,300 pages and 12,500 illustrations covering 70 years, this may be the most complete visual history of the American automobile ever published. Nowhere else are there so many collector, luxury, sporting and every day cars assembled with fascinating information about original prices, engine sizes, horsepower, and other specifications. The pages are packed with genuine, factory-fresh photographs and drawings taken from contemporary advertisements, catalogs, and brochures. More than 250 manufacturers and hundreds of individual models trace the evolution of the American automobile, from the millions of Model Ts that rolled off Ford's assembly line through the art deco streamliners of the '30s, to the tail-finned land yachts of the '50s and muscle cars of the '60s and '70s up to the early SUVs of the '90s. Throughout author Tad Burness adds handwritten details not found anywhere else, including pointing out unusual options and differences found within a model. Automotive journalist Matt Stone provides a new general introduction and one to each era within the book.

Author : Matt DeLorenzo
Publisher : VMB Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 8854016438

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Legendary American Cars by Matt DeLorenzo Pdf

Since the days of Henry Ford's Model T, American cars have dominated not only the market but also the imagination and desires of millions of people throughout the world. Dedicated to the exciting history of this icon of past and present times, this volume presents a complete overview of the history of the American car, with text written by one of the most famous journalists in the filed, enhanced by illustrations that capture the excitement, aesthetics, and the charm of this everlasting legend. Many books provide a basic catalog of American automobiles from ca. 1900 to 2000. This volume takes a very different approach: in addition to detailing engineering and styling advances, it also presents the broad social and economic environment and demonstrates how and why the automobile has evolved and thrived so stongly throughout the United States. Cars may be a universal product, but that's not to say that they are the same everywhere. Viewed from afar, American cars (and trucks) look too big, have engines that are too large, and are extravagant for solo commuting. Considering the American continent's vast extent, its wide, open roads, readily available parking and low energy prices, it is understandable why American automobiles differ in design, engineering, and size from those found elsewhere in the world. Beginning with the automobile's early days and Henry Ford's invention of the assembly line and continuing until modern times, this intriguing, richly illustrated volume traces the entire history of American automobiles. Whether luxury-market or average-family models, the American car is a dream possession and cult object famous and desired throughout the world.