
Does the Internet dumb down auto history?
In some respects the rise of the web has been the best thing that ever happened to American automotive history. Just click on Google’s “images” tab and you instantly have access to far more pictures […]
In some respects the rise of the web has been the best thing that ever happened to American automotive history. Just click on Google’s “images” tab and you instantly have access to far more pictures […]
If I were to own only one Studebaker history, this would be it. As with Richard M. Langworth’s other books written in the 1970s (e.g., Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer and Chrysler), this is a refreshingly “old-school” automotive history. Unlike all […]
As with Richard Langworth’s other automotive books (e.g., on Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer and Studebaker) Chrysler & Imperial offers a more substantive history compared to newer, more visually-oriented books. When doing research on the Chrysler Corporation I reach for this book […]
This is yet another oversized hard-cover book from the Consumer Guide folks. It’s an entirely competent effort led by Richard M. Langworth and James Flammang but may be at least somewhat redundant if you already have another […]
The text of this book has many similarities to Chrysler & Imperial 1946-1985 (1993) as well as various Consumer Guide histories. The result is often derivative but contains plenty of interesting historical nuggets. For example, authors Richard […]
The format and journalistic tone of this oversized, hard-cover book is similar to that of the Complete History of Chrysler (1985). The text includes a mix of product information, business analysis and discussion about socio-political […]
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