History of the motor car.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Automobiles -- History
Table of contents: title: The ancient dream -- The years of discovery -- Power at the crossroads -- Fashion goes to the head -- The birth of a market -- Mud and dust below zero -- Capital-to-capital races -- The great names emerge -- Race without a finish -- “Tin Lizzie” is born -- The embryo giant -- Europe in top gear -- By car round the world -- The Grand Prix monsters -- Comfort and convenience -- Hand pumps and punctures -- Classic in the red dust -- America forges ahead -- Peace brings its problems -- Years of the Charleston -- The disturbed decade -- The last of vintage -- The post-war boom -- In 1980 the others may catch up.