The Ultimate Classic Car Book

Quentin Willson; David Selby

ISBN 10: 0789401592 / ISBN 13: 9780789401595

Published by Dk Pub, 1995

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0789401592I4N10

Synopsis:

Detailing more than one hundred classic cars with close-up gallery photographs, a comprehensive history highlights each model's production figures, competition successes, mechanical and body modifications, and more. 50,000 first printing.

Reviews: YA?Images of handsome vintage cars are generously spread across large glossy pages in this satisfyingly useful book. An introduction covers what the term "classic car" means, goes on to discuss such models by decade, and has a section on the purchase of such a vehicle. One-paragraph profiles of innovators such as Andre Citrone, Ferdinand Porsche, and Lee Iacocca are included. But the drawing card here is the cars. There are more than 90 of them, all displayed in splendid full-color photographs. Front, side, and top views are shown in closeup shots of dashboards, grills, interiors, etc. Nothing as crass as purchase price is mentioned. Definitely the stuff of dreams.?Frances Reiher, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Car buffs won't find a '32 Packard or a '48 Lincoln Continental in these pages, only contemporary classics between the 1950s and the early 1990s. But what is in this beautifully illustrated, oversize book won't disappoint even those enthusiasts who believe that much was lost when running boards went out of style. Willson and his coauthor admit that defining "classic" is problematic, for how people feel about cars is "purely emotional, fiercely partisan, terminally subjective, and completely without logic or order." Nonetheless, they proudly offer 90 automobiles that for them fit the classic bill: "interesting, diverting, beguiling." Featured on double-page spreads are photographic and textual profiles of such dandies as the Bentley R-Type Continental (in production from 1952 to 1955), the 1957 Buick Roadmaster, the Citroen DS Decapotable (1960 to 1971), the Datsun 240Z (1969 to 1973), and the Lamborghini Countach 5000S (1973 to 1990). Feast on these! Brad Hooper

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Ultimate Classic Car Book
Publisher: Dk Pub
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket