Standard Catalog Of American Cars 1976 1999

You will find more than 2,500 photos and 16 pages of full-colour to accompany the complete listing of production figures, options, technical data, specifications, chassis information and significant historical facts surrounding American cars produced in the last 24 years. The famous 1-to-6 Vehicle Condition Grading Scale will help you to evaluate fair market prices for the cars you want to buy or sell. And you will use this book to recognise the "hot" cars of today that will be the collectibles of tomorrow. Features over 5,000 cars with over 20,000 prices.

Identifies over 4,000 cars including all domestic models from 1976 to 1986.

This new revised and updated edition is the ultimate buyer's/seller's/user's guide for American automobiles manufactured from 1805 to 1942. With more than 5,000 photos and histories of cars and their companies written by one of America's most respected automotive historians, this is the most extensive automobile reference available.

This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.

The newly revised fourth edition of The Standard Catalogue of American Cars, 1946-1975 is the most complete post World War Two automobile book ever assembled. Ron Kowalke brings together the top minds in car collecting to deliver a one-of-a-kind source for identifying, buying, selling or simply enjoying American cars from 1946-1975. By using this book, you'll join auctioneers, insurers, hobbyists, investors, car dealers, restorers and other collectors in the pursuit of some of the best cars America ever produced. From the big automakers in Detroit to the small one-car wonders from New Jersey to California, more than a thousand listings of individual models help you to make critical restoration, buying and selling decisions and help you to avoid making an expensive mistake.

The 1973 oil crisis forced the American automotive industry into a period of dramatic change, marked by stiff foreign competition, tougher product regulations and suddenly altered consumer demand. With gas prices soaring and the economy in a veritable tailspin, muscle cars and the massive "need-for-speed" engines of the late '60s were out, and fuel efficient compacts were in. By 1980, American manufacturers were churning out some of the most feature laden, yet smallest and most fuel efficient cars they had ever built. This exhaustive reference work details every model from each of the major American manufacturers from model years 1973 through 1980, including various "captive imports" (e.g. Dodge's Colt, built by Mitsubishi.) Within each model year, it reports on each manufacturer's significant news and details every model offered: its specifications, powertrain offerings, prices, standard features, major options, and production figures, among other facts. The work is heavily illustrated with approximately 1,300 photographs.

On the 29 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo triggering events leading to the outbreak of the First World War. Less well known is that the car he was in was a borrowed Graf + Stift Double Phaeton, that the route was published in advance, and the decision to lower the hood was only taken at the last minute. As with the other events in this book, the car played a central role, yet its history is largely unknown. These cars not only had their own stories in terms of design, ownership, and the role they played but they are also a way of telling the story of the events themselves – they are literally a vehicle for history. In this book James Morrison takes 20 cars involved in twenty key 20th century world events and examines their involvement and history to provide a new angle and fascinating insights.