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Category Archives: Books

Selling the American Muscle Car

Marketing Detroit Iron in the ’60s and ’70s

December 23, 20162 CommentsBooksBy Gary Smith

There are no rules.

CAN-AM 50th Anniversary. Run-what-you-brung unlimited racing. Book Review.

December 11, 20166 CommentsBooks, RacingBy Gary Smith

Route 66 Barn Find Road Trip

Lost Collector Cars Along the Mother Road. Book Review.

November 17, 20162 CommentsBooksBy Gary Smith

Cuba’s Car Culture

Fangio Kidnapped! and other stories from embargoed Cuba. Book Review.

November 11, 20163 CommentsBooksBy Gary Smith

Porsche—The Classic Era

Book Review—The definitive history of Porsche’s Classic Era

November 6, 20165 CommentsBooks, PorscheBy Gary Smith

Camaro 2016

Book review. This is how they do cars at GM Design these days.

September 2, 20161 CommentBooksBy Gary Smith

Ford Total Performance Book Review

Ford performance history by Martyn Schorr.

December 10, 20155 CommentsBooksBy Gary Smith

’Fifties Flashback

Great book about authentic hot rodding in the ’50s.

June 27, 20145 CommentsBooks, California Bill’s Automotive HandbooksBy Gary Smith

Stingray Name Controversy

Sting Ray? Stingray? StingRay? Which is it?

February 21, 20147 CommentsBooks, CorvetteBy Gary Smith

Corvette Sting Ray: Genesis of an American Icon

Brock’s involvement with the design of the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray has been well overshadowed by his successes at Shelby American, but they are no less fascinating.

July 17, 20132 CommentsBooks, Corvette, GM Design Staff, Peter BrockBy Gary Smith

A Century of Automotive Style

It’s no big secret that a lot of early motorcars took their body design from carriages. But it’s less obvious that carriage design evolved from shipbuilding.

December 9, 20105 CommentsArtwork and Books, Books, Car DesignBy Gary Smith

Of Firebirds and Moonmen, Part One

Those were the days.

October 26, 20106 CommentsArtwork and Books, Books, Car Design, GM Design Staff, Motorama, Norman J. JamesBy Gary Smith

The Design Staff Library

We don’t know what a Baumm is.

September 28, 201011 CommentsArtwork and Books, Books, Car Design, GM Design StaffBy Gary Smith

Styling The Look of Things

A time warp into a much different world of design than exists today.

August 31, 20102 CommentsBooks, Car Design, GM Design StaffBy Gary Smith

Automobile Design by Henry Gurr

R. Henry Gurr’s book played an important role in my interest in car design.

June 3, 201013 CommentsBooks, Car Design, R.H. "Bob" GurrBy Gary Smith

SpeedReaders

SpeedReaders presents authoritative reviews of transportation books and media.

April 29, 2010Leave a commentBooksBy Gary Smith

Modes and Motors

Nice illustrations.

January 21, 20102 CommentsBooks, Car Design, GM Design StaffBy Gary Smith

Sports Cars of the Future by Strother MacMinn

This rare, out-of-print book was loaned to me by Richard Nesbitt.

December 1, 20095 CommentsBooks, Car Design, GM Design Staff, Strother MacMinnBy Gary Smith

Fords of the Fifties, by Mike Parris

Collections of historic information about Ford’s 1950 and 1960 decades.

October 27, 20097 CommentsBooks, California Bill’s Automotive HandbooksBy Gary Smith
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