Presents the private car collections of the world's most avid collectors, detailing the unique features of more than 100 models including cars by Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford, Nash, Studebaker and others.

Included are numerous photographs of early models, advertisements, songs, and cartoons, as well as chapers on the Glidden Tours [and] the Indianapolis Speedway Races. . . Useful as an informal study of the development of two of America's greatest industries-automobile manufacturing and advertising-during these years.

Explore this encyclopedia of cars complemented by an exciting story about the social and economic climate of American culture. This massive 512 page book charts the progress of the automobile in America from 1907, through the explosive automotive creativity of the fifties and the renaissance of the nineties, and on to the future of the industry. It highlights the work of the big three, Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, and also covers the smaller companies that didn't survive the thirties and forties like Crosley, Packard and Studebaker.The history of the automobile in America is in many ways the story of the American dream. The best and the worst, the successes and the failures, the classics and the bizarre - the cars that America has taken to her heart have defined American culture.The ten years following World War I in America saw the birth of mobility for the masses as car ownership changed from being a privilege of a wealthy minority to an essential part of the American way of life. Hardcover, 9" x 12", 512 pages, 500 color & 20 b/w photos