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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnTake a ride with Rick Reale down Nostalgia Lane through the forties, fifties and sixties when cars were cars, kids were kids and when the two got together, there was always an adventure. nnIn 1963, unable to sell his 55 Buick for.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Take a ride with Rick Reale down Nostalgia Lane through the forties, fifties and sixties when cars were cars, kids were kids and when the two got together, there was always an adventure. In 1963, unable to sell his '55 Buick for the then exorbitant price of $25.00, Rick and two young friends set off in the road tank for a 6,000 mile cross country and back road trip. Their combined wealth was $325.00. The first 3000 miles was driven in 58 hours, despite being slowed down by collecting a few speeding tickets, going to a police station at 3 a.m. to pay a $34.00 fine, getting lost in St. Louis for two hours, stopping for an oil change, and attending mass on Sunday morning. Life was good. Four porthole Buick Roadmasters. '57 T-Birds. GTO's, Barracudas and Buick Wildcat convertibles. These were the trusty inhabitants of Rick's automotive world. Even a '41 Packard Clipper sedan with a hood as long as most people's driveways. The list of splendid -- and some not so splendid -- cars that Rick has owned goes on and on, and Rick has a story for each of them. Tires Optional brings back the days when a good car cost you less than a hundred bucks, drain oil was ten cents a quart, and a gallon of gas was a mere two bits. If the car had a radio, you were listening to Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. America was strong and was respected, and we made cars that didn't sound like a Campbell's soup can when you tapped the hood. Rick Reale is a former educator who turned tradesman and fulfilled the spirit of art and craftsmanship through colors and decoration. His hobby of automotive interests provided him endless opportunities to study the history of mechanical transportation and experience firsthand many of these wheeled wonders. Ironically, he has spent the last fifty years with a great lady who hates car talk, but who quietly has put up with him and his antics while working full time and raising four accomplished offspring.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Con il suo stile brillante e spassoso, Rick Reale ci porta con sé in un viaggio negli Stati Uniti degli anni quaranta, cinquanta e sessanta attraverso una serie di episodi curiosi, divertenti e avventurosi che ruotano intorno al mondo delle automobili e dei motori di quegli anni.Si potrebbe pensare che la vita a Meriden, tranquilla cittadina di provincia del Connecticut, possa essere noiosa per un giovane scapestrato com¿era Rick Reale tra gli anni ¿40 e ¿60¿ niente di più inesatto. A parte sperimentare sempre nuovi metodi per mettere a repentaglio la propria vita (e quella dei suoi amici e familiari), la sua passione per le automobili e i motori gli hanno offerto spunti inesauribili per vivere avventure pittoresche, bizzarre, a tratti paradossali. Un viaggio di 5.000 chilometri, da una costa all¿altra del Paese lungo la Route 66, percorso in 58 ore ¿ inclusi una serie di imprevisti ¿ in una Buick incidentatissimä Una esilarante gita in Messico di tre settimane ¿ sempre in una Buick, sempre malandatissima ¿ con due amici altrettanto folcloristici, di cui uno affetto dalla mania per l¿igiene e l¿altro ossessionato dalla vendetta di MontezumäQuesti e altri spassosi episodi della vita di Rick Reale vengono narrati attraverso la storia delle sue autovetture e dei suoi furgoni: una sfilata di veicoli con cui il nostro protagonista ha compiuto peripezie di ogni genere, e che talvolta lo hanno accompagnato per una vita intera, contornata da amici, soci, appassionati di automobili d¿epoca e altri personaggi variopinti e bizzarri. Automezzi per lo più affidabili (pneumatici un pö meno), meccanici competenti, frammenti di un¿epoca che non c¿è più. col suo tono scanzonato e a tratti un pö nostalgico, questo libro ricrea l¿atmosfera di un¿America che non c¿è più.