Category: book review
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Looking for a Christmas gift for the car person in your family. Auto America – Car Culture 1950-1970s
A glorious and nostalgic celebration of a defining period in American car culture–the 1950s to the 1970s, the golden age of Detroit’s icons of the road–when automobile design was at its peak and the car itself was synonymous with a vision of success in America. Auto America offers a compelling look at three decades (the 1950s,…
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Steve Purdy Book Review: Barn Find Road Trip
My Michigan-based colleague Steve Purdy has provided yet another wonderful review of a new book for the auto enthusiast. In BARN FIND ROAD TRIP a writer, a photographer and an automotive archaeologist, Brian Barr, Michael Alan Ross and Tom Cotter, hit the road for 14 days to find and document all the old cars they could,…
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How to Build a Car – Book Review by Steve Purdy
Are you looking for a gift for your child? How about a real, hardbound, colorful, intriguing book? Here’s one you can consider for your youngsters – boys or girls, perhaps 5- to 10-years-old, whether or not they are interested in cars – called How to Build a Car: A high-speed adventure of mechanics, teamwork and…
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