Roadster Guide To Americas Classic Car Museums And Attractions

The Roadster Guide to America's Classic Car Museums & Attractions is an indispensable tool for anyone who loves vintage and collector cars.Motoring from coast to coast, it features over 250 auto-themed attractions ranging from the Stanley Museum in Maine to the California Automobile Museum.This book helps car buffs plan exciting adventures, or locate fun museums close to home. Whether it's Model Ts, elegant roadsters of the 1920s, the "tail fin" era, muscle cars, early racecars, NASCAR, and so much more, vintage car fans will find all their favorites here. Bring this book along on your next road trip to discover fascinating car museums and attractions across America.Michael Milne writes about car museums and road trips for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Hemmings Motor News, AAA, and other publications.

This book is a collection of in-depth magazine articles about 75 leading car museums in Europe and North America. The stories were previously published in magazines in the United States and Great Britain including Hemmings Motor News, Octane, AAA World, Classic & Sports Car, Classic Military Vehicle and more.

A biography of the four-time champion racing legend details his childhood, much-publicized divorce, relationship with contemporaries, and life after racing.

Cuba's Car Culture drives through Cuba's love of American cars of the '40s and '50s, and the ingenuity that keeps them running despite the U.S. embargo.2017 Silver Medal Winner of the International Automotive Media Competition! The story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed healthy tourism trade and American outpost status, and by the 1950s it had the highest per capita automotive purchasing of any Latin American country. But when Cuba fell to communist rebels in 1959, so ended the inflow of new cars. Since then, trade embargo forced Cuba's car enthusiasts to develop a unique and insular culture, one marked by great creativity, such as: -Keeping a car alive with no opportunity to acquire replacement parts -Customizing a car with no access to aftermarket parts -Drag racing with no drag stripIn many ways, Cuba is an automotive time warp, where the newest car is a 1959 Chevy or perhaps one of the Soviet Ladas. Cuba's Car Culture offers an inside look at a unique car culture, populated with cars that have been cut off from the world so long that they've morphed into something else in the spirit of automotive survival.Authors Tom Cotter and Bill Warner (founder of the Amelia Island Concours) take readers on a whirlwind tour of all things automotive, beginning with Cuba's pre-Castro car and racing history, up to today's lost collector cars, street racing, and the challenges of keeping decades-old cars on the road.Cuba's Car Culture is illustrated throughout with rare historical photos as well as contemporary photos of Cuba's current car scene. For anyone who enjoys classic cars, whether they're old Chevy Bel-Airs, Studebakers, or Ford Fairlanes, a cruise around Cuba will make you feel like a kid in a candy store.