Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream

by Earl Swift

Book Overview

A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy--a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his--while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him.

Slumped among hundreds of other decrepit hulks on a treeless, windswept moor in eastern North Carolina,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062282689
• ISBN13: 9780062282682
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"