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Speed & Luxury: The Great Cars [Hardcover]

Dennis Adler (Author)
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September 1997
With rich custom coachwork, bodywork fit for an art gallery, and massive engines tuned to perfection, these classics from the first half of the century are the world's greatest cars.

Dennis Adler has crafted fascinating histories of the cars, their makers, and owners in this stunning new book. Examples from marques such as Duesenberg, Packard, Cadillac, Auburn, and Bugatti are described in compelling detail and shown in 200 exceptional color photographs.

These were cars whose rolling chassis might have been built on one continent while their coachwork was crafted by automotive artists on another. Clearly, price was no object; only grandeur and road-going power mattered. Author Adler makes the case that no true classic cars have been built since the end of the era he covers here. One can only agree with his premise.



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Ol’ Skool Rodz, January 2008

“OK, go ahead and call whoever your personal Santa Claus is and put this one on your Xmas list. You’re gonna want it … This book is one that’ll serve a dual purpose – it will inform and inspire … This is possibly the best book about hot rod/custom car builders to come out in at least the past five years … Thomson writes in a simple, conversational style that benefits his subjects. Perry’s photos reveal the same down-to-earth impression.”

 



Auto Express Magazine (UK), April 2007

“This book captures the finest and fastest of those from both Europe and the U.S.”

 

American Car World (UK), July 2007

“For the connoisseur I am sure this book will be of great interest.”
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Traveling back over 100 years of automotive history, this book brings to dazzling life the dawning age of the automobile—a time when the early promise of personal transportation inspired great feats of design and engineering, resulting in some of the most remarkable vehicles the world would ever know. In hundreds of fabulous photographs and interviews with legendary designers, the story of the automobile’s first half-century unfolds on two continents, as automakers and coachbuilders—including Cadillac and Chrysler, Duesenberg, Stutz, and Packard, Bentley and Rolls-Royce, Bugattis and Alfa Romeos, Delahayes, Delage, Murphy, and Saoutchik—create rolling works of art for the world’s wealthiest and most powerful figures.

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Motorbooks Intl (September 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0760303622
  • ISBN-13: 978-0760303627
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,397,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good history of the automobile, June 16, 2000
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Some great photos - not bad for the coffee table of the automobile enthusiast.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good history of the automobile, June 16, 2000
Not bad - nice photos. A good coffee table book for the automobile enthusiast.
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silver arrow, auto union, pace car, colour section, convertible victoria, special roadster, sport phaeton, pontoon fenders, grille shell, convertible sedan, wheelbase chassis, car pictured, driving compartment
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United States, World War, New York, Alfa Romeo, Silver Ghost, Eight Liter, Edsel Ford, Ray Dietrich, General Motors, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Twin Six, Targa Florio, Aero-Dynamic Coupe, Murphy Company, Oreste Fraschini, Gurney Nutting, Grand Prix, Noel Thompson, Henry Ford, Joseph Figoni, Carl Benz, Sedanca de Ville, Henri Chapron, Ford Motor Company, Fred Duesenberg
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