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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- No Brand
- Personalize
- No
- Signed
- No
- Color
- Brown
- Exterior Color
- Brown
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780760335673
- Book Title
- Merchants of Speed : the Men Who Built America's Performance Industry
- Publisher
- Quarto Publishing Group USA
- Item Length
- 11.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Industries / Automobile Industry, Automotive / General, Automotive, Science & Technology, Sports
- Item Weight
- 50.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN-10
0760335672
ISBN-13
9780760335673
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72039057
Product Key Features
Book Title
Merchants of Speed : the Men Who Built America's Performance Industry
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry, Automotive / General, Automotive, Science & Technology, Sports
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
50.7 Oz
Item Length
11.2 in
Item Width
9.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-009939
Reviews
"When we open the BangShift.com Gearhead University, this book, Merchants of Speed by Paul D. Smith, will be first semester required reading. Magazines have been delivering more and more great history in recent periods, but this is on an entirely different level. Christmas is coming. If you are a history junkie and want to learn of the great people on whose shoulders we now stand you owe it to yourself to either score the book or plant a bug in someone's ear to score it for you." - Bangshift.com "It's one of those rare multi-purpose books that will occupy equal time in the Studio being cracked open for research, as well as being brought out for some additional inspiration in those late-night bench race sessions." - Motorburg.com, "When we open the BangShift.com Gearhead University, this book,Merchants of Speedby Paul D. Smith, will be first semester required reading. Magazines have been delivering more and more great history in recent periods, but this is on an entirely different level. Christmas is coming. If you are a history junkie and want to learn of the great people on whose shoulders we now stand you owe it to yourself to either score the book or plant a bug in someone's ear to score it for you." - Bangshift.com "It's one of those rare multi-purpose books that will occupy equal time in the Studio being cracked open for research, as well as being brought out for some additional inspiration in those late-night bench race sessions." - Motorburg.com, "Smith's selections range from the guys known to any gearhead (Vic Edelbrock) to those known only by devoted students of hot rod history (Nick Brajevich and Wayne Horning among them). Unlike previous efforts to illuminate such figures, Smith spends a good deal of time and space on each subject, shortchanging nobody. Smith also illustrates the book with well-chosen photos (250 total black and whites, spread over 240 pages) that show the subjects in their natural habitats - their shops, the dragstrips or the dry lakes." - Hemmings E-Weekly Newsletter, "When we open the BangShift.comGearheadUniversity, this book, Merchants of Speed by Paul D. Smith, will be first semester required reading. Magazines have been delivering more and more great history in recent periods, but this is on an entirely different level. Christmas is coming. If you are a history junkie and want to learn of the great people on whose shoulders we now stand you owe it to yourself to either score the book or plant a bug in someone's ear to score it for you." - Bangshift.com "It's one of those rare multi-purpose books that will occupy equal time in the Studio being cracked open for research, as well as being brought out for some additional inspiration in those late-night bench race sessions." - Motorburg.com, "Smith's selections range from the guys known to any gearhead (Vic Edelbrock) to those known only by devoted students of hot rod history (Nick Brajevich and Wayne Horning among them). Unlike previous efforts to illuminate such figures, Smith spends a good deal of time and space on each subject, shortchanging nobody. Smith also illustrates the book with well-chosen photos (250 total black and whites, spread over 240 pages) that show the subjects in their natural habitats -- their shops, the dragstrips or the dry lakes." - Hemmings E-Weekly Newsletter, "Paul Smith has done a remarkable job cataloguing the histories of 22 of hot rodding's most influential companies and the men behind them. Smith has definitely done his homework in putting this material together; to call this a history book would be like calling the SearsTower a building. If you're looking for a thorough history of the performance industry, I don't think you'll find a more comprehensive account." - Kustoms & Hot Rods, "Paul Smith has done a remarkable job cataloguing the histories of 22 of hot rodding's most influential companies and the men behind them. Smith has definitely done his homework in putting this material together; to call this a history book would be like calling the Sears Tower a building. If you're looking for a thorough history of the performance industry, I don't think you'll find a more comprehensive account." - Kustoms & Hot Rods, "Paul Smith has done a remarkable job cataloguing the histories of 22 of hot rodding's most influential companies and the men behind them. Smith has definitely done his homework in putting this material together; to call this a history book would be like calling the Sears Tower a building. If you're looking for a thorough history of the performance industry, I don't think you'll find a more comprehensive account." Kustoms & Hot Rods
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
629.228/6092273
Synopsis
Hot rodding has always been about taking something that Detroit built and making it leaner and faster. At the epicenter of the movement was a cast of driven men who designed and manufactured the parts that made it all possible. This book takes an appreciative look back at the early hot rodders who worked out of their garages, basements, and backyards, and the "speed equipment" they developed. In this mammoth volume, Paul Smith examines the stories behind two dozen speed equipment manufacturers and the go-fast goodies they designed, developed, and sold. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews conducted with these founding fathers of hot rodding, Smith details the work of industry icons such as Iskenderian, Edelbrock, Evans, Hilborn, Navarro, Offenhauser, Sharp, Weiand, Ansen, and Kong. Illustrated with more than 200 period photos and filled with firsthand accounts of the birth of hot rodding--and the automotive aftermarket industry--this book is a truly fitting celebration of the names that became synonymous with speed., Hot rodding has always been about taking something that Detroit built and making it leaner and faster. At the epicenter of the movement was a cast of driven men who designed and manufactured the parts that made it all possible.This book takes an appreciative look back at the early hot rodders who worked out of their garages, basements, and backyards, and the "speed equipment" they developed. In this mammoth volume, Paul Smith examines the stories behind two dozen speed equipment manufacturers and the go-fast goodies they designed, developed, and sold.Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews conducted with these founding fathers of hot rodding, Smith details the work of industry icons such as Iskenderian, Edelbrock, Evans, Hilborn, Navarro, Offenhauser, Sharp, Weiand, Ansen, and Kong.Illustrated with more than 200 period photos and filled with firsthand accounts of the birth of hot rodding--and the automotive aftermarket industry--this book is a truly fitting celebration of the names that became synonymous with speed., Drawn on in-depth interviews, this book is an illustrated history of the men who designed and manufactured the parts that made hot rodding possible--whose names became synonymous with speed.
LC Classification Number
TL139.S65 2009
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