VINTAGE & CLASSIC CAR BOOKS W - X SPECIFIC PAGES ARE PROVIDED FOR THESE MODELS: BUICK | CADILLAC | IMPERIAL | LINCOLN OLDSMOBILE | PACKARD | THUNDERBIRD ALPHABETICAL PAGES BY TITLE: A-B | C-D | E-F | G-H | I-J | K-L M-N | O-P | Q-R | S-T | U-V | W-X | Y-Z-# TO ORDER: click on item image or title. A new window will open at Amazon.com for that item. Click then click "Proceed to Checkout". Checkout is performed over a SECURE CONNECTION for your safety. Weird Cars by John Gunnell. Paperback; 304 pages, over 500 photos. Automotive Mileposts Review Some very unusual cars are featured in this book, including the Batmobile and the Weinermobile. You'll be amazed at the amount of time, money, and imagination that have gone into creating these one of a kind works of art. A very interesting book that proves beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder! Wheels for the Road by Douglas Brinkley. Paperback; 858 pages. Amazon.com Review: In conjunction with its 100th anniversary, the Ford Motor Company opened its monumental archives to the unfettered research of author/historian Douglas Brinkley. And while the 800-page history that resulted from that work (as well as Brinkley's tireless, amply footnoted source work elsewhere) is comprehensive to a fault, the scope and enduring impact of the industrial colossus wrought by Henry Ford make it often seem like mere introduction. Brinkley's meticulous, enlightened work can't help but find endless fascination with the company's founder, whose presence resonates through every phase of the company's history, from its fitful start (FMC was the third company to bear the Ford name), through the rise of the Model T (still one of the most ubiquitous and revolutionary mechanical contrivances of the last millennia), to its cycles of corporate decay and rebirth (variously via Iacocca's Mustang in the 60's and the technical innovations and potent retrenchment of trans-nationalism in the 90's). Henry Ford remains one of the greatest human paradoxes in a century filled with them: a largely self-taught engineer who couldn't read a blueprint, yet became a mass-production visionary; an employer whose social conscience (and no small amount of shrewd business acumen) doubled the salary of his employees one era, employed thugs to crush their union organizing efforts the next; a world figure who read little, yet published much, including anti-war editorials and vile, anti-Semitic tracts--despite the fact that his monumental manufacturing facilities were designed by Jews whose friendship and professional relationships he cultivated. The enviro-social impact of Ford's industrial innovations continues to loom, and Brinkley hardly ignores them. But his research is largely focused on the rich players (and their often perplexing psychology) of the Ford saga, all-too-human characters whose ambitious empire will continue to cast its long shadows over many a generation to come. --Jerry McCulley Automotive Mileposts All You Ever Wanted to Know About Classic Luxury Cars Back | Next A-Z Directory | Car Books Index | Car Magazines | Car Movies Main Contents | Recent Updates | Coming Attractions AUTOPOSTS Forum