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Editors Of Automobile Quarterly, Hardbound, 223 Pages, ISBN: 9780915038411, 1983 Edition - Second-Hand book in excellent unread condition - with no dustjacket !
The colossal American automobile industry is deeply entwined in our heritage, the underpinnings of our history and our very economic well-being. One-sixth of all jobs rely directly on the automobile. At the end of the last decade the U.S. produced four times more cars than babies. At the very heart of this colossus is the world's largest single employer and largest public corporation—General Motors.
This magnificent pictorial history of GM's first 75 years contains 385 illustrations of its most memorable. significant and important automobiles.
Over 270 are in spectacular full color, superbly documented, model by model, year by year: Buicks, Cadillacs, Chevrolets, LaSalles. Oldsmobiles. Pontiacs and many more. Also presented are the trucks, buses and trains of GM, along with the experimental, show and luxury cars. Editor L. Scott Bailey and the staff of the prize winning automotive magazine, Automobile Quarterly, have ably chronicled them all.
It can be said that the beginning of the American automobile predates the Revolutionary War with the granting by the Crown Colonies of patents for several "self-propelled land wagons." One of the earliest U.S. patents, signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, was for a twin engined, front-wheel-drive, steam powered "land carriage." But that is history. The reality of the automobile began with the techniques of mass production. For it was with the founding of GM on September 16, 1908 that the American automobile industry really began to fulfill its promise: a car for "every purse, purpose and person." Since GM's beginning it has produced a staggering total of over 235 million vehicles.
Yes, we are of all things, a people passionate about automobiles. General Motors—The First 75 Years is not only the first comprehensive pictorial record of GM's contribution to the automobile, but a tribute to that uniquely American passion.
Book jacket designed by David W. Bird ll
