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Title

Power Behnd The Wheel: Creativity and the Evolution of the Automobile

Publisher

Abbeville Press 1988

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0896600181

ISBN 13

9780896600188

Binding

Hardbound

Condition

Fine(1)

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Surveys the history of automobile design, including engines, bodies, and exteriors, discusses unusual and classic models, and suggests future developments

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Clearly enjoying his subject, Boyne ( The Leading Edge ) offers here a lively portrait of man's second best friend, tracking the automobile from its creation to the present. The book is accompanied by some 200 elegant photographs: a 1938 Jaguar SS-100 gleaming beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, a beetle VW production line, French soldiers touring in a huge Peugeot in 1918, Cadillacs, Packards, Model T's, Cords, Bentleys, Austins, Ferraris, Bugattis. Boyne discusses such far-flung issues as the fuel crisis of the 1970s, bank-robber Clyde Barrow's fondness for the Ford V-8, the "visceral impact" that the Jaguar XK-120 had on the automotive worldand its relationship to the equally influential Datsun 240Zas well as considerations of the pros and cons of solar, steam and electrically powered vehicles. There are chapters on classic car restoration, on engine and body design and an amusing discourse entitled "Nobody's Perfect: Quirks of the Road," which touches on some notable failures including the Bond mini-car, the Dymaxion and the Tucker 48, and asks the eternal question: "Are four wheels necessary?" First serial to Motor Trends ; Literary Guild alternate.
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