Automobiles of America

By Automobile Manufacturers Association

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814314309
• ISBN13: 9780814314302
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Updated edition coving 1893 to 1996.

Updating the prior reviewer's comments, this book provides a year-by-year highlight of the American Automotive industry and generally a picture or two of a significant design introduction for each given year. The "Personalities" section, highlighting icons of the industry and the "Roll Call" section, identifying all makes and models of American manufactured vehicles are invaluable. My only wish is the work contained more photographs demonstrating evolution and change in vehicle model design. E.g., the Ford Thunderbird is only represented, photographically, for the years 1958, 1976, and 1991. Frankly, the last two photographs don't really represent elements of that vehicle which were of historical significance the complete inception and early development of that vehicle are lost in this book. A good read but not particularly strong in a visual representation of America's automobile history.

from 1893 to 1967, a view of cars

This is a great book if you're a car buff or just want to enjoy the photos of old cars. Did you know America's first workable gasoline engine car was built in 1893? I didn't. The Automobile Manufaturers of America do a great job explaining what innovations were brought to car manaufacturing in a time line format. You can look up 1946 and see that Kaiser and Frazer joined in the companies manufacturing passenger cars with their names on the cars. There's also an index of many pioneers that started or worked with cars. Everybody has heard of Henry Ford, but did you know there was a Walter Chrysler or a Louis Chevrolet? There's also an alphabetical list of when various cars were manufactured.That's what makes the book so interesting - there are some cars you may have heard of, and some cars, unless you've really involved with cars, you wouldn't know. For you or the car buff in your life, this is the book for you.