Vintage Car Wrecks

By Rusty Herlocher

This volume chronicles car wrecks of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in more than 400 post-accident images, accompanied by detailed captions providing relevant model and technical information. The text... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087349458X
• ISBN13: 9780873494588
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Captain Crunch isn't just for Breakfast

Wow, these babies got crunched worse than I would have ever imagined these 1930's-70's thick steel cars could take. The author, Rusty Herlocher, gives readers a bonus by IDENTIFYING the years, makes, and models. He even points out trivialities that the average reader might miss and at times throws in some humor occasionally. For example; "This 1965 Biscayne demonstrates that a big tree will not give an inch to a car." I would recommend this book because of the excellent quality photos of a wide variety of automobiles and the proof of what can happen when you are at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Thoughtful and informative

I found this book to be very toughtful. Respect was given to the accidednts, I'm sure that people were hurt and even worse in some of these, but maybe it is a good thing to remind people what can happen if they are not careful drivers. I found it to be chilling at times, but that is life, everything can not be sugar coated, and car accidents can be deadly, no matter how badly some people would like to think differently. If this book would make just one kid think twice about driving after drinking it would be worth the work this author did. Some of the photos were funny, and the captions were light hearted. I'm a car nut so I liked the photos.

Great Content and Good Reading too

This is a really great book for anyone with an interest in cars from the 50's to the 70's. The descriptions of the automobile wrecks are both informative and interesting, and the collection of pictures is truley amazing. The book is sectioned into groups of pictures with captions that describe the sceen and the automobile, making for a really great bathroom reader as you can work through just a few pages at a time. But if you enjoy the book as much as I have you'll probably have trouble putting it down.