Pontiac Firebird - the Auto-Biography

Pontiac Firebird - the Auto-Biography
Author: Marc Cranswick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781787118041

An updated and enlarged examination of the complete model history of General Motor's upmarket F body variant. Close attention is paid to both regular and high level model variants (Formula & Trans Am), and how Pontiac made its Firebird unique. Includes 81 new images.

Pontiac Firebird - The Auto-Biography

Pontiac Firebird - The Auto-Biography
Author: Marc Cranswick
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781787110038

Over a 40-year period, the Pontiac Firebird has earned a unique place among speedy American domestic cars. What started out as another contender in the ‘me too’ Mustang pony car race, ended up a classic. This updated and enlarged third edition of Pontiac Firebird - The Auto-Biography chronicles the definitive history of the Pontiac Firebird. Close attention is paid to both regular and high-level model variants (Formula & Trans Am), and how Pontiac made its Firebird unique. The Firebird’s tale reflects the development of the mainstream domestic car in the modern era: V8s, turbo V8s, turbo V6s, HO V6s, overhead cam I6s, and even a Super Duty four banger. If there’s a performance avenue to be explored, then the Firebird has been there. Popular with car fans and in the sales charts, the Firebird has had a high profile both in television and at the movies, ensuring the Firebird legend just gets bigger and bigger. From the go-faster 1960s, gas mileage- and pollution-controlled 1970s, performance renaissance of the 1980s, through to the indifference of the 1990s, the Firebird was always there. This is its story. Cutting edge research and over 350 colour photos – including over 80 new images for this third edition – bring this in-depth, incredibly detailed legend to life. Through formal study of the postwar American car market, Marc Cranswick brings valuable insight to the subject.

Pontiac Firebird

Pontiac Firebird
Author: David Newhardt
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0760350426

Pontiac Firebird: 50 Years chronicles the Firebird's rich history, from its inception in 1960 to its continued popularity today.

Classic Muscle Car Advertising

Classic Muscle Car Advertising
Author: Mitch Frumkin
Publisher: Krause Publications Incorporated
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780873493369

Ride along during a historical cruise of muscle car advertising from the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Near full size ads paint the history of thundering muscle cars from three tumultuous decades. This valuable reference depicts some of the last remnants of promotional print material containing hard-to-find factory facts and images on muscle car models. More than 160 ads have been restored to their original, vibrant color. Muscle cars from American Motors, Buick, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, General Motors, Mercury, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, and Pontiac are included. Covers popular models such as Javelins, Gremlins, Barracudas, Belvederes, Road Runners, Chargers, Camaros, Corvettes, Novas, and GTOs.

Paddle Your Own Canoe

Paddle Your Own Canoe
Author: Nick Offerman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0698138325

Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.

Standard Catalog of Firebird 1967-2002

Standard Catalog of Firebird 1967-2002
Author: John Gunnell
Publisher: Krause Publications
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780873494946

Embrace the thundering horsepower of Firebird in this full-color reference featuring comprehensive coverage of every Firebird built from 1967 to 2002. Listings for more than 725 models provide vehicle descriptions, serial number explanations, original price and weight charts, equipment and available production data, engine details, historical facts, VIN information, and collector values from Old Cars Price Guide for 1967 to 1995 models. Covers all 35 years of production.

Autobiography of a Baby Boomer

Autobiography of a Baby Boomer
Author: Robert Schultz
Publisher: Light Messages Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1611530504

In Autobiography of a Baby Boomer you’ll follow the journey of a post-modernist baby-boomer from Father Knows Best middle class Fair Lawn, New Jersey to the hippy trail through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The overland journey in search of something more than he could find at Cornell University Medical College covers four years during a time when “dropping out,” “turning on,” and “free-love” were the gospel. Through his travels, drugs, séances, very far-out “Road People,” and his parents’ unremitting love, author Robert Schultz comes to truly appreciate the American way of life. In an admittedly unconventional way, Schultz discovers the rather conventional joy of having a family and the awesome responsibility that comes with it.

Ginger Baker - Hellraiser: The Autobiography of The World's Greatest Drummer

Ginger Baker - Hellraiser: The Autobiography of The World's Greatest Drummer
Author: Ginger Baker
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2010-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 185782864X

Peter 'Ginger' Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who transcends genre, he's done much to popularise world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing - both critically acclaimed and globally successful. He has also lived a life more rock'n'roll than most.Ginger tells his story for the first time. It's often harrowing but outrageously honest as he journey's from war-torn south London to his adopted home in South Africa's beautiful Western Cape - where he has his own polo club. Along the way he tells of his life-long love of jazz, how he discovered the drums, life on the road and reveals the heroin use that should have killed him. He talks candidly of his three marriages, his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Cream in 1993, their 2005 reunion and his own plans for the future.