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Weird Cars by John Gunnell. Paperback; 304 pages, over 500 photos.
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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!
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
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