Motorbooks e 100 (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Motorbooks International, St. Paul, MN. 2005. 192 pgs. Illustrated. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The ability of U. S. Car enthusiasts to satisfy their need for speed changed dramatically in the late 1940s as car-crazy veterans returned home from World War II with formal mechanical training, courtesy of Uncle Sam. This is the story of how one such veteran, an exB-17 airman named Alex Xydias, established the SO-CAL Speed Shop and helped transform hot rodding from a scruffy, underground, outlaw sport into a defining part of postwar American culture. E-100; 10.3 X 10.1 X 0.9 inches; 192 pages. …