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From the Model T and DB5 to the VW Beetle and the Hummer.
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Time-travel through the Automobile Age with a collection that puts you in the driver s seat.
With an introduction and chapter text by New York Times automotive writer Phil Patton, as well as an illustrated timeline, this volume highlights the technological innovations, major manufacturers and dealers, historical events, and influence of popular culture on car design.
Using imagery culled from a Century of auto advertising, this book traces the evolution of the auto from horseless carriage to rocket on wheels and beyond. 20th Century Classic Cars offers a lush visual history of the automobile, decade by decade, via 400-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection.
Initially a novelty item, the car grew into a necessity of the modern age, and a vector of freedom on the open road.
Over the next Century the automobile evolved from chugging workhorse to tail fin era showboat to sleek status symbol, complete with sleek hood ornament.
Henry Ford jump-started the age of the automobile with the first assembly-line car in 1908: the Model T.
From the Model T and DB5 to the VW Beetle and the Hummer