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Pontiac Firebird

The Auto-Biography

by Marc Cranswick
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

Over a 40 year period the Pontiac Firebird has earned a unique place amongst speedy domestic cars. What started out as another contender in the "me too" Mustang pony car race ended up becoming so much more. Only Pontiac could have come up with a coupe like the Firebird, and it was the Firebird that kept...
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by Michael W. R. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

Introduced at the opening of the New York World�s Fair in April 1964, the Ford Mustang was based on mechanicals from the earlier Ford Falcon compact car. It quickly established a new motorcar category�the �pony car��which was widely copied by domestic and overseas competitors. From the outset,...
Cover of America's Highways: History from 1776 to Modern Times: Early Turnpike Era, Roads, Canals, Motor Age, Scientific Roadbuilding, Federal Aid, National Defense, Interstate System, Bridges, Construction
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This book has been written for a widely diversified audience—those interested in the general history of our Nation's highways and those whose interest might be more narrowly confined...
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Routes of Compromise

Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952

by Michael K. Bess
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local,...
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Road to Power

How GM's Mary Barra Shattered the Glass Ceiling

by Laura Colby
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015

Follow a pioneer's journey from factory floor to CEO Road to Power is the story of how Mary Barra drove herself to the pinnacle of a company that steers the nation's wealth. Beginning as a rare female electrical engineer and daughter of a General Motors die maker, Barra spent more than thirty...
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Roy D. Chapin

The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company

by J. C. Long
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004

"John Cuthbert Long’s Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed biography of a remarkable, but little-known Detroit automobile industry pioneer. Historians should include Roy Dikeman Chapin (February 23, 1880–February 16, 1936) in any listing of significant American auto industry pioneers, along with...
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Hot Rod Empire

Robert E. Petersen and the Creation of the World's Most Popular Car and Motorcycle Magazines

by Matt Stone
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

†‹Hot Rod Empire details Robert E. Petersen's creation of Hot Rod Magazine in the 1940s and the Petersen Publishing empire that grew to the mainstream juggernaut we know today. The end of World War II marked the release of pent-up war-years energy and the desire to live. For many this meant...
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Billy Durant

Creator of General Motors

by Lawrence R Gustin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012

Praise for the first edition: "A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America." ---Detroit Free Press "It is refreshing to report that Billy Durant is...
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Growing Up NASCAR: Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All

Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All

by Humpy Wheeler,Peter Golenbock
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010

In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport's pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway,...
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The End of Detroit

How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market

by Micheline Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2003

An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry. In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely...
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Door to Door

The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation

by Edward Humes
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic behind every trip we take and every click we make. Transportation...
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The People's Tycoon

Henry Ford and the American Century

by Steven Watts
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off...
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Where the Suckers Moon

The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign

by Randall Rothenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013

"For all the right reasons." "Cars that can." "What to Drive." "The perfect Car for an Imperfect World." Only one of these slogans would be chosen by Subaru of America to sell its cars in the recession year of 1991. As six advertising agencies scrambled...
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The Great Race

The Global Quest for the Car of the Future

by Levi Tillemann
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015

The Great Race recounts the exciting story of a century-long battle among automakers for market share, profit, and technological dominance—and the thrilling race to build the car of the future. The world’s great manufacturing juggernaut—the $3 trillion automotive industry—is in the...
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