Domestic category: 406 books
Stealing Cars
Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, but so did the means of making a stolen car disappear. Though changing license plates and serial numbers remain basic...
by Johnny Tipler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Today, Fiat's superbly stylish 124 Spider is accepted internationally as a desirable classic car and its stablemate, the elegant 124 CoupÈ, is quickly gaining similar acceptance. That this recognition is deserved cannot be disputed, for both cars have all the right ingredients for lasting fame: original...
by Ken Voyles, Mary Rodrique
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Founded in 1887, the Detroit Athletic Club left an indelible stamp on the city even as it was helping that city find its place in the country at large. Always a powerhouse for individual and team amateur athletics, the DAC helped give its members the strength to serve as soldiers and compete as Olympians....
Miles and Miles of Texas
100 Years of the Texas Highway Department
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast...
by Larry Edsall, Dennis Adler
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Ferrari has been producing race and road cars for more than 60 years. In the distinctive “Ferrari Red,” legendary cars with names like Monza, Testa Rossa, and Daytona turn heads from Monaco to Japan and around the world.
In Ferrari, 60 milestone vehicles from across the company’s history...
Return to Glory
The Story of Ford’s Revival and Victory at the Toughest Race in the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“This page-turning combination of business book and adventure saga tells the tale of the Ford Motor Company’s” 2016 triumph at Le Mans (The New York Times, “10 New Books We Recommend This Week”).
At the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, Ford unveiled a new car—and the automotive world lost its...
American Road
The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history.
On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of dirt, mud, rock, and sand....
by Karl Ludvigsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
“ In view of the number of volumes that have been produced in recent years about Germany’s most famous auto maker, it must seem presumptuous to add yet another to the stack. Being relatively thin, this one had to be different. It devotes itself to Mercedes-Benz cars and the most specific and personal...
by Edward Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An Old Coachman's Chatter with some Practical Remarks on Driving
Nimrod has somewhere said that a good coachman could almost be perceived by the manner in which he put his gloves on, or words to that effect; but without going so far as that, I believe the way in which he mounts his box...
Getting Out of the Mud
The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Martin T. Olliff recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobilists, and how state and federal highway administrations replaced the...
Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust
Salvaging the Automotive Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
What happens to automobiles after they are retired but before they are processed as scrap? In this fascinating history, David N. Lucsko takes readers on a tour of salvage yards and wrecked or otherwise out-of-service cars in the United States from the point of view of gearheads—the hot rodders,...
Machines of Youth
America’s Car Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
For American teenagers, getting a driver’s license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver’s license in hand, teens are on the road to buying and driving(and maybe even crashing)...
by David D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Hydroplane racing burst onto the Seattle scene in 1950, and local sports fans embraced it with a passion that is hard to imagine. Throughout the early 1950s, thousands of fans flocked to Lake Washington to watch classic races between Seattle�s Slo-mo-shun boats and a fleet of East Coast challengers....
by Giles Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
A unique look at the development of the Mini—the tiny car that was voted the second most influential car of the century The latest in the highly illustrative Story series offers the fun and fascinating complete story of the Mini, from its 1950s origins to its enduring appeal. This light-hearted...