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"The automobile was one of the most miraculous inventions of the 20th century. It promised freedom, style, and utility. But sometimes, rather than improving our lives technology just makes everything worse. Over the past century cars have filled the air with toxic pollutants and fueled climate change. Cars have stolen public space and made our cities uglier, dirtier, less useful, and more unequal. Cars have caused tens of millions of deaths and injuries....
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"Transportation dominates our daily existence. Thousands, even millions, of miles are embedded in everything we do and touch. We live in a door-to-door universe that works so well most Americans are scarcely aware of it. The grand ballet in which we move ourselves and our stuff is equivalent to building the Great Pyramid, the Hoover Dam, and the Empire State Building all in a day. Every day. And yet, in the one highly visible part of the transportation...
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""Heavily illustrated overview of the Corvette since its introduction in 1953 through 2011, featuring 48 models with production specifications, facts, and trivia on each car. Includes more than 350 color photos"--Provided by publisher"--
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"Darwin Holmstrom's Top Muscle is a look at over two dozen of the rarest one-offs and production vehicles from the muscle-car era of the late 60s and early 70s. Featuring new and original photography of every car, this book chronicles the biggest and baddest in the heyday of American muscle"--
"A muscle-car book unlike any other, featuring the rarest vehicles on Earth. In the 1960s, something explosive happened in the automotive world: the United...
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"Finally! A restoration guide with the kind of detail needed for a first-class job.How to Restore Your Farm Tractor is packed with hundreds of helpful full-color photographs, proven tips and techniques, and money-saving advice from restorers who know what works. and what doesn't. Tharran Gaines' expert DIY guide will walk you step-by-step through the complete restoration of your tractor, from disassembly to engine rebuild, electrics, painting, and...
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If you've every wanted to draw and design cars -- whether as a blueprint for your own street rod, or simply for the pleasure of creating art -- this is the book for you! The author's brief history of automotive design is here, as is his topnotch advice on tools and equipment, as well as the basic concepts of rendering.
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"Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka brings to life this thrilling and important story about American's rejection and second obsession with the electric car. Starting with the early days of the electric car, Fialka documents the M.I.T./Caltech race between prototypes in the summer of 1968 and takes readers up to visionaries like Elon Musk and the upstart young Tesla Motors. Today, the electric has captured the imagination...
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A pictorial history of buses and coaches of the period, drawn from a British transport photographer's vast collection.
British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s is an overview of the bus and coach scene during a decade of great social and economic change in Britain's history. This volume looks at the interesting and varied number of bus and coach operators that still existed, before and just after the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968.
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"The car has shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention. Its manufacture introduced mass-production to the world, bringing with it tarmac, suburbs, and car culture. In this comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age, historian Dr. Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colorful 130-year history. He tells the...
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"Abandoned cars on America's most iconic abandoned road. Sounds like a great idea for a road trip. For a nation that loves the idea of the road, there is no more legendary ribbon of highway than the 2,451 miles comprising historic Route 66. Along the Mother Road lies the detritus of the automotive age: motels, roadside attractions, diners, service stations, drive-ins, and dives. Hidden in, around, and behind its buildings or abandoned along its roadside...
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In GM LS-Series Engines: The Complete Swap Manual, expert Joseph Potak walks you through all the steps involved in installing an LS engine into any vehicle, from concept to completion. Variants of GM's groundbreaking family of LS engines are installed in everything from the company's most mundane panel vans to its earth-shaking Corvette ZR1. First underhood in the 1997 Corvette, the LS1, and its successors have proven powerful, reliable, and amazingly...
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Whether you're still dreaming about the perfect camper or looking for practical information, Camper Rehab is your top to bottom guide to getting any camper trailer road ready. From Airstreams and Apaches to Shastas and Winnebagos, classic campers have an undeniable appeal! But how do you know which one will work for you? Or if the one you have your eye on is a good deal or a money pit? Before you get too far down the road, picturing it bouncing along...
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Would you like to start your business and finally be in control of how much you earn? Here comes the secret to making good profits and becoming successful at your own trucking company business. If you have been considering starting your own trucking company but do not know the exact way to start or the basic requirements needed, then this book is for you.
Many people conceive ideas of starting a business but chicken out at the point of execution,...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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A history of America's greatest motocar, with picture galleries of every year. Also many other galleries; celebrity cars, advertisements from back in the day, pictures of the founders, showroom brochures, and some bonus pictures of Cord and Auburn cars. 575 pages of automotive history.
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A champion racer and pro driving coach's secrets for success in this popular, skill-driven motorsport—includes color photos.
With its solo set-up, more subdued speeds, and endlessly varying events and courses, autocross is the easiest, safest, and least expensive way to get into motorsports. Anyone with a helmet and a car can do it. Of course, it doesn't hurt to have some driving skills—which is where this book comes in.
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With its solo set-up, more subdued speeds, and endlessly varying events and courses, autocross is the easiest, safest, and least expensive way to get into motorsports. Anyone with a helmet and a car can do it. Of course, it doesn't hurt to have some driving skills—which is where this book comes in.
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"What a variety are pictured here! Double deck 'balloon' cars, single deckers including open topped cars and various illuminated cars, a specialty of the town." -York Model Engineers newsletter
In the early 1930s the tramcar in Blackpool was at a crossroads, the system needed investment in both new track and new trams while there was a serious threat that the "town" routes might be converted to bus operation.
The appointment of Walter Luff as the...
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