The 100 Greatest American Cars
Author | : Jan P. Norbye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jan P. Norbye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dennis Adler |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Packard automobile |
ISBN | : 0760319286 |
Foreword by Jay Leno. The author delivers the complete history of this magnificent marque, from Packard's first Model A horseless carriage of 1899, to the company's final days in 1958. Archival black-and-white photographs, stunning new color photos, and a thorough and well-researched text guide you through Packard's stylish lineup.
Author | : George B. Douglas |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1998-01-12 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780486402154 |
Clearly written text, detailed illustrations, and full-size working plans provide novices and experienced model builders with all the information they need to create exact replicas of two 19th-century sailing ships—the Benjamin F. Packard, a classic American clipper, and the Alice Mandell, a famous whaler. The one-volume edition of two rare model-building manuals also devotes chapters to ship’s rigging (ancient and modern) and abundant information on clippers and old-time whaling ships. A treasury of essential information for hobbyists, model builders, and devotees of the great age of sail.
Author | : Norm Mort |
Publisher | : David and Charles |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2022-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 178711838X |
The independent automakers who had survived the depression of the 1930s had flexibility and enough capital from the war to be the first to launch all-new models for a car-starved nation. So lucrative was the American post-war car market that new automobile companies were also formed to cash in on the pent-up demand for new cars. This is their story told through text and the use of contemporary brochures, period literature, factory photos, road test info, and over 90 new, previously unpublished colour photos of restored examples to relate the importance of these historic vehicles.
Author | : Feng Yuan |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall Professional |
Total Pages | : 1283 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0130869856 |
Currently, there aren't any good books on Windows graphics programming. Programmers looking for help are left to muddle their way through online documentation and API books that don't focus on this topic. This book paves new ground, covering actual graphics implementation, hidden restrictions, and performance issues programmers need to know about.
Author | : Arthur W. Einstein, Jr. |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786456612 |
A major force in the American automobile scene through the 1950s, Packard made a mark on American advertising as well. The cars themselves seemed built for promotion--the red hexagon in the hubcap, the yoke grille, and the half-arrow belt-line molding acted as a logo of sorts, setting a new standard in visual continuity and branding. The company's image became so firmly established, in fact, that Packard eventually ran advertisements which pictured the cars but purposely omitted the name, instead asking readers to "guess what name it bears." This book traces Packard's advertising history from 1900 through 1958, based on original research that includes several first-hand interviews with the people who made it happen. Filled with reproductions of Packard ads (some in color), the book looks beyond the surface to examine how the advertisements reflect and interpret the company's management and business convictions, how they were influenced by business conditions and competitive pressure, and how they changed with the times.
Author | : Troy Paiva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Automobile travel |
ISBN | : 9781610606530 |
A stunningly photographed examination of the roadside icons that dot America's landscape. Lost America celebrates the boom-to-bust towns, aircraft bone yards, and filling stations of days past that were sacrificed at the altars of speed and technology and relegated to windswept desert plains and abandoned fields. The eye-catching and memorable photography is complemented with a succinct text history that details the rise and fall of each subject. The result is an impressive tour of an America still standing, yet largely forgotten.
Author | : Stacy Perman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2013-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439190100 |
Two wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history. James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his inventions, including the design and manufacture of America’s first luxury car—the elegant and storied Packard. Henry Graves, Jr., was the very essence of blue-blooded refinement in the early 1900s: son of a Wall Street financier, a central figure in New York high society, and a connoisseur of beautiful things—especially fine watches. Then, as now, expensive watches were the ultimate sign of luxury and wealth, but in the early twentieth century the limitless ambition, wealth, and creativity of these two men pushed the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, craftsmanship, technology, and physics to create ever more ingenious timepieces. In any watch, features beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds are known as “complications.” Packard and Graves spurred acclaimed Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe to create the Mona Lisa of timepieces—a fabled watch that incorporated twenty-four complications and took nearly eight years to design and build. For the period, it was the most complicated watch ever created. For years it disappeared, but then it surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1999, touching off a heated bidding war, shattering all known records when it fetched $11 million from an anonymous bidder. New York Times bestselling author Stacy Perman takes us from the clubby world of New York high society into the ateliers of the greatest Swiss watchmakers, and into the high-octane, often secretive subculture of modern-day watch collecting. With meticulous research, vivid historical details, and a wealth of dynamic personalities, A Grand Complication is the fascinating story of the thrilling duel between two of the most intriguing men of the early twentieth century. Above all, it is a sweeping chronicle of innovation, the desire for beauty, and the lengths people will go to possess it.
Author | : John Gunnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Beverly Rae Kimes |
Publisher | : Automobile Quarterly Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Automobile industry and trade |
ISBN | : 9780971146815 |
Only the legendary Packard could command a book of such scope and expense. This monumental work has required ten years of research, documentation and photography. It represents many more decades of collecting Packard automobiles, facts, photographs, technical data and information to record for all time every aspect, every model, every achievement of the Packard motor car and the men who made its name an emblem and international byword for taste and refinement in automotive design and engineering. Over three years were spent in intensive writing, checking, cross-checking, rewriting, coordinating, editing, and winnowing thousands of rare and unpublished historic photographs. This volume represents the scholarly efforts of sixteen contributors and was written by ten highly qualified authorities on Packard lore.Winner of a Cugnot Award.