Classic America Car Parts

Classic America Car Parts
Author: David H. Lehr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781432784638

Whether you are a collector, or you sell classic car parts in your spare time, Classic American Car Parts will teach you the tricks and methods used by professional dealers. From GM to FORD to CHRYSLER, even AMC, this book will teach you what to buy, how to find it, and how to get the best deal. This book will also teach you how to market and sell your parts for maximum profit. These are the secret tricks the pros use. Published for the first time, much of this information has never been offered to the public before. You will learn about: Part numbers, date codes, quality, and what makes certain parts worth more than others. How to find buyable and profitable classic cars and parts. How to wheel & deal at swap meets, public auctions or in the sellers driveway. How to maximize profit by parting out junk classic cars. How to market and sell your parts at swap meets or on E-bay. How to run a successful E-bay business.

Classic American Cars

Classic American Cars
Author: Craig Cheetham
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0785832734

From the turn of the twentieth century through to the present day, the book traces the development of the automobile, reflecting the social change it both brought, and reflected.

Classic Car

Classic Car
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2023-04-11
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0744087600

From the Chevrolet Bel Air to the Ferrari Testarossa, this stunning book showcases the most iconic and important classic cars from every decade since the 1940s. Few things ignite such reverence as a classic car. With more than 250 iconic models from the 1940s to the early 1990s, photographed from every angle, this title is a glorious celebration of the stars in the classic car firmament. Classic Car brings you the story of more than 20 great marques, including household names Bentley, Mercedes, Ferrari, Cadillac and Aston Martin. Its lavish photography reveals every detail in close-up of models that range from the 1940s giant two-ton Daimler DE36, which ferried royals about in style, through to sleek Ferraris from the 1980s capable of smashing the 200mph barrier. It puts you in the driving seat of such icons as the Chevrolet Corvette, the Ford Thunderbird, and the Mercedes 300SL, and brings you the designers of these amazing machines and the story of their manufacturers. This ultimate guide to classic cars further features: - A comprehensive catalog that draw out the key features of each important model, with detailed profiles and specification. - Feature pages broaden the scope of the book, covering everything from the designers and manufacturers who created them to their evolution over the decades. - Stunningly shot DPS images add an extra layer of color and flavor to the book. - Written by award-winning author and expert on all aspects of motoring, Giles Chapman, Editor-in-Chief of DK's The Car Book, which has sold over 550,000 copies worldwide to date. Updates will include the key models that have grown in popularity since the last edition. Whether you dream of owning one of these super-cool cars, or you are a collector already, Classic Car is set to become a treasured favorite.

Auto Biography

Auto Biography
Author: Earl Swift
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062282670

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, the Chevy evokes none of the Jet Age mystique that made it the most beloved car to ever roll off an assembly line. It's open to the rain. Birds nest in its seats. Officials of the surrounding county consider it junk. To Tommy Arney, it's anything but: It's a fossil of the twentieth-century American experience, of a place and a people utterly devoted to the automobile and changed by it in myriad ways. It's a piece of history—especially so because its flaking skin conceals a rare asset: a complete provenance, stretching back more than fifty years. So, hassled by a growing assortment of challengers, the Chevy's thirteenth owner—an orphan, grade-school dropout and rounder, a felon arrested seventy-odd times, and a man who's been written off as a ruin himself--embarks on a mission to save the car and preserve long record of human experience it carries in its steel and upholstery. Written for both gearheads and Sunday drivers, Auto Biography charts the shifting nature of the American Dream and our strange and abiding relationship with the automobile, through an iconic classic and an improbable, unforgettable hero.

The Yugo

The Yugo
Author: Jason Vuic
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429945397

Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Mix one rabid entrepreneur, several thousand "good" communists, a willing U.S. State Department, the shortsighted Detroit auto industry, and improvident bankers, shake vigorously, and you've got The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke: The American CEO who happens upon a Yugo right when his company needs to find a new import or go under. A State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's nonaligned communist government. Zastava Automobiles, which overhauls its factory to produce an American-ready Yugo in six months. And a hole left by Detroit in the cheap subcompact market that creates a race to the bottom that leaves the Yugo . . . at the bottom.

Corvair Style

Corvair Style
Author: Richard Lentinello
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578619101

Stories about people who own Corvair automobiles

The Catalog of Catalogs VI

The Catalog of Catalogs VI
Author: Edward L. Palder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781890627089

The directory that saves time, money, and aggravation by providing thousands of mail-order sources in hundreds of subject areas is newly revised and updated. The sixth edition describes 15,000 catalogs--1,000 new listings--in more than 900 subject areas. Also new to this edition are 5,000 Internet addresses, which allow readers to browse catalogs on-line the same day they locate them in this handy reference.