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.

America's love affair with cars is on the fast track. Here is the current market value for every model from every major manufacturer in the United States and abroad through the mid-1970s, including Ford, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Rolls-Royce, and Mercedes-Benz. Clearly organized from A to Z, each listing is broken down by date, engine specifications, model types, and body styles -- with three condition categories from fair to excellent. Essential references include a list of classic car museums around the country, a directory of car collector clubs, and a glossary that contains all the terms you need to know to negotiate the deal. In addition, there are handy hints from the professionals about buying at auction and for investment, theft prevention, and selling classic cars. Plus special sections on trucks and motorcycles cover a wide range of vehicles from Humpbacks and Pickups to Flatheads and Knuckleheads. Dozens of photographs help you identify special models.

On July 24, 1701, Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac stood in the heart of the wilderness on a bluff overlooking the Detroit River and claimed this frontier in the name of Louis XIV; thus began the story of Detroit, a city marked by pioneering spirits, industrial acumen, and uncommon durability. Over the course of its 300-year history, Detroit has been sculpted into a city unique in the American experience by its extraordinary mixture of diverse cultures: American Indian, French, British, American colonial, and a variety of immigrant newcomers. Detroit: A Motor City History documents the major events that shaped this once-small French fur-trading outpost across three centuries of conflict and prosperity. Through informative text and a variety of imagery, readers experience firsthand the struggles of the nascent village against raiding Indian tribes and the incessant political and military tug of war between the colonial French and English, and then American interests. Like many other major cities across the United States, Detroit played a pivotal role in establishing the country's economic and industrial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, serving as a center for its well-known civilian and military mass-production resources. This visual history provides insight into Detroit's rapid evolution from a hamlet into a metropolis against a backdrop of important community and national affairs: the decimating fire of 1805, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and both world wars.

Both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors—with very different results. As Edison invented hit after commercial hit, gaining fame and fortune, Henry struggled to make a single invention (an affordable car) work. Witnessing Thomas's glorious career from afar, a frustrated Henry wondered about the secret to his success. This little-known story is a fresh, kid-friendly way to show how Thomas Edison and Henry Ford grew up to be the most famous inventors in the world—and best friends, too.