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Convertibles: History and Evolution of Dream Cars

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The photographs included in this historical overview of the world's great convertible automobiles are fine quality, and, occasionally breathtaking for the enthusiast. However there are some omissions and errors which make the reading somewhat disappointing. One example is omitting the relevant technical date about the 1936 Cord 810 featuring front wheel drive. The technical data on the 1960 Cadillac convertible erroneously described the Hydramatic automatic transmission as a 3 speed! The Cadillac Hydramatic was a true, fully automatic 4 speed transmission, first developed by Cadillac in 1940. Why is this important? Because this transmission is the world's first successful fully automatic tranny ever produced. Despite minor problems such as these, the product looks great on any coffee table.

this book is somewhat a disappointment. the original car pictures are awesome. the cars featured are the best. the text is clear and entertaining. the problem is the publisher, for whatever reason, decided to make every car picture a 2 page display. almost every car pictured in this book is cut in half. this includes smaller pictures that could have been fit on one page. this is expected for SOME of the pictures but not every one. after browsing only a few pages it becomes really annoying. the publisher could have made the book wider, or made some of the pictures smaller, or both. this could have been one of the most beautiful car books ever. even with this problem i rate this book 4 stars and i would still recommend it to others if bought at a discount.