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Motorbooks, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Great collector cars are still out there--just waiting to be found! Barn Find Road Trip is the antidote to all the manufactured collector "reality" shows on TV. This is a real-world, barn-find banzai run in which auto archaeologist Tom Cotter, his car collector pal Brian Barr, and photographer Michael Alan Ross embarked on a 14-day collector-car-seeking adventure with no predetermined destinations. It's barn-find freestyle! Roaming the Southeast,...
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English
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"A spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it's cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years. More than any other technology, cars have transformed American popular culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music...
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Series
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A young reader's introduction to where cars came from and how they work. Presented in comic book format.
"In Dan Zettwoch's Science Comics: Cars, you'll learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does gasoline - or electric batteries, or even steam - make a car move? Rev up your motor and take look at the combustible history of the automobile and its explosive effects on our modern lives."--Provided...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring more than 250 iconic models from the 1940s to the 1980s, Classic Car is a celebration of the most beautiful and innovative cars produced since the birth of mass car-ownership. Meet the designers behind these amazing machines and discover the history of the manufacturers that have brought them to life."-- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski-hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by Publishers Weekly-tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them. Delving into more than 170 years of ingenuity in design, technology, and engineering, he takes us from Carl Benz's three-wheel motorcar in 1855 to the present-day shift to electric cars. Along...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Charting the 130-years from the arrival of horseless carriages to the advent of driverless vehicles, celebrate the automobile and the romance of the open road. Beginning with the development of the first vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine, Drive explores the early glamour of driving, motor sport, and car design, and looks at how the automobile has shaped the modern world. Revealing the advances in technology and design that have made...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Mercedes-Benz began production of the largest, most luxurious limousine in the world. A machine of frightening power and sinister beauty, the Grosser 770K Model 150 Offener Tourenwagen was 20 feet long, seven feet wide, and tipped the scales at 5 tons. Its supercharged, 230-horsepower engine propelled the beast to speeds over 100 m.p.h. while its occupants reclined on glove-leather seats stuffed with goose down. Armor plated and equipped...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Organized by categories including sports cars, convertibles and compacts, this illustrated guide of the history of the car features over 1,200 of the world's greatest, most iconic vehicles from the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost to the Ferrari F40"-- Provided by publisher
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Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"In On the Grid, F1 journalist Luke Smith brings to life the behind-the-scenes stories that don't make it to viewers' screens. From the Bahrain starting grid--thick with sweat and engine fumes--to opulent yacht parties in Monaco, with a stopover at a legendary bakery in Melbourne whose croissants exist only because of F1 technology, he showcases the extraordinary characters who give the sport such color and intrigue. With deep insight, knowledge,...
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