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Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hellbending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be--With an Oil Well in Every Back by P. J. O'rourke Synopsis Spanning 30 years, this collection chronicles famed humorist and gearhead P.J. O'Rourke's love affair with the automobile from mid-20th century to now, from heyday to sickbay.... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover 
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High and Mighty: SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way by Keith Bradsher From Powells.com The auto industry in Detroit was panicking during the oil crisis of the early 1970s. Higher oil prices lead to congress-mandated fuel economy standards, and car manufacturers were forced into creating smaller, more fuel efficient automobiles... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Road : Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey At the Dawn of the Motor Age (02 Edition) by Pete Davies Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Gold-plated Porsche by Stephan Wilkinson Publisher Comments "This isn't a book about Porsche restoration. It's about Wilkinson's colorful life. That, along with elegant writing, is what makes this book so endearing-the tales are told without ego. This is less a tale about a machine than a tale about a man... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 831-835) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment by Tom Mccarthy Publisher Comments The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Model T: A Centennial History by Robert Casey Publisher Comments I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and take care of. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant by Lolita Hernandez Publisher Comments "Autopsy of an Engineis the most surprising love story I've read all year. The workers in the Cadillac factory who populate this book may not be related, but in the hands of the amazing Lolita Hernandez they become one moving multicultural family... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper 
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In the Rings of Saturn by Joe Sherman Publisher Comments In this compelling, readable narrative, Joe Sherman explores virtually every aspect of the Saturn project, America's biggest and most publicized industrial success of the last decade. Here is the whole story--Saturn's mysterious beginnings inside General... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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All corvettes are red :the rebirth of an American legend by James Schefter Excerpt Chapter 1 General Motors was dying. That was the message in the newspapers and magazines as business writers honed their obituary skills. The smell of corporate demise left a cold fear in the hallways of GM buildings in Detroit and its suburbs... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Locomobile Book 1911 Reprint by Locomobile Company of America Publisher Comments From 1899 until 1929, the Locomobile Company of America produced high quality automobiles. Founded by Amzi Barber and John Walker, the company originally made steam cars under license from Stanley Steamer. The car was advertised as a combination auto... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles Amherst Villiers by Paul Kenny Publisher Comments A close relation of Winston Churchill, Amherst Villiers is perhaps best known as the man who supercharged the Blower Bentley (which his close friend Ian Fleming had James Bond drive in Casino Royale and Moonraker). However, he also developed racing cars,... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $42.95 New - Hardcover
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Dean Jeffries: 50 Fabulous Years in Hot Rods, Racing & Film by Tom Cotter Synopsis The life of the man behind some of the most famous vehicles of our time—hot rods, Indy racers, sports cars, and iconic TV and movie vehicles.... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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The Critical Path: Inventing an Automobile and Reinventing a Corporation by Brock Yates Publisher Comments The story of how Chrysler's minivan team created an automobile that captured the 1995 Motor Trend Car of the Year and other major awards - and reinvented a perilously entrenched corporation in the process - is as dramatic and inspiring a story as any in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Electric Dreams by Caroline Kettlewell Publisher Comments "Electric Dreams" offers drama built on marvelous small-town characters, and a story of never-say-die invention which would make North Carolina's other pioneers, the Wright Brothers, proud.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, the First 40 Years by Peter Pugh Publisher Comments The Rolls Royce Story, the First Forty Years. This book and its sequel, to be published in 2001, is the first attempt since 1938 to cover comprehensively the story of Rolls-Royce from its earliest days until the present.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile by Lewis H Siegelbaum Book News Annotation This is a biography of the automobile in the Soviet Union. Author Siegelbaum (history, Michigan State U.) touches upon a broad range of subjects, giving a concise history of the automobile industry itself, but also delving into the idea of Soviet... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Virgil Exner: Visioneer: The Official Biography of Virgil M. Exner, Designer Extraordinaire by Peter Grist Publisher Comments The official biography. An in-depth look at the last of the great auto-designers of the 20th century. His glorious achievements and his personal tragedies. With many previously unseen works of art and family photos among the 150 color images throughout... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV by Keith Bradsher Publisher Comments The longtime Detroit bureau chief for The New York Times lays bare the dangers posed by the most popular type of American family car: the sport utility vehicle. With a new epilogue by the author. SUVs have taken over America's roads. Ad campaigns... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.63 Used - Trade Paper
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Horatio's Drive by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-169).... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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