WHO FOUNDED CHEVROLET? AN INSPIRING HISTORY: How a Fearless Race Car Driver and a Brilliant Businessman Built a Famous Automobile Company, Then Took ... Roads: 22 (DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY) - Softcover

WHO FOUNDED CHEVROLET? AN INSPIRING HISTORY : How a Fearless Race Car Driver and a Brilliant Businessman Built a Famous Automobile Company, Then Took Two Very Different Roads

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WHO FOUNDED CHEVROLET How a Fearless Race Car Driver and a Brilliant Businessman Built an Automobile Company, Then Took Two Very Different RoadsHis name became an American automotive icon. The man behind it never shared in the fortune.Before Chevrolet became a familiar badge on millions of automobiles, it was the surname of Louis Chevrolet, a Swiss-born mechanic and fearless race car driver who arrived in America with limited English, remarkable mechanical ability, and an appetite for speed.Then he met William Durant, a businessman who saw something bigger.One man understood machines from the driver's seat. The other understood how to turn an opportunity into a growing enterprise. Together, they helped create Chevrolet.But they wanted very different futures.Louis believed in performance, engineering, racing, and automobiles worthy of the reputation he had built. Durant saw the enormous market opening for affordable cars that could challenge Henry Ford's Model T.Their disagreement changed everything.Louis eventually walked away from the company carrying his surname. Chevrolet kept growing without him.And years later, in one of the most extraordinary reversals in automobile history, the famous racer and automobile designer found himself working as a mechanic for the very company that still carried his name.How did it happen Who really founded Chevrolet Why did Louis leave And how did two men who started together end up traveling such dramatically different roads Written with engaging historical storytelling and clear analysis, WHO FOUNDED CHEVROLET takes readers from Louis's difficult childhood and early bicycle racing through his rise to American racing fame, his partnership with Durant, the creation of the Classic Six, their defining disagreement, Frontenac, the Fronty-Fords, family tragedy, financial hardship, and the astonishing growth of Chevrolet after Louis was gone.This book is for you if you enjoy: - True stories behind famous companies and the people who created them- Automobile history, classic cars, racing, and mechanical innovation- Business partnerships, bold decisions, disagreements, success, and failure- Founder stories that reveal what happened before a famous brand became famous- Inspiring history told as a compelling human story rather than a dry collection of datesThis is more than the history of an automobile company.It is the story of ambition, engineering, business, family, risk, loss, and a surname that became far bigger than the man who was born with it.Louis Chevrolet did not travel the road to Chevrolet's eventual greatness.His name did.Get your copy of WHO FOUNDED CHEVROLET today and discover the remarkable story behind one of the most recognizable names in American automobile history. Artikel-Nr. 9798192526590

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