All Cylinders: Cars of 1953

By James Trager

All Cylinders: Cars of 1953 - James Trager
  • Release Date: 2017-10-13
  • Genre: Antiques & Collectibles

Description

All Cylinders: Cars of 1953 is an inaugural eBook for the iPad organized around a single year from Trager’s massive and comprehensive chronology of automotive history from Leonardo da Vinci to the Tesla.
All Cylinders: Cars of 1953 is a lively, informative and FREE eBook that gives vintage automobile enthusiasts an accelerated road trip through 1953 celebrating and uniquely highlighting the core makes, models, designers, inventors, race drivers, CEOs, and related developments from a year that defined the auto industry in the U.S. and across the globe.
Entries include information on the choice makes and models of the age. From the universally appreciated (Packard Caribbean, Chevrolet Corvette & Nomad, Oldsmobile Starfire, Cadillac Eldorado, Buick Skylark, Ford Custom & Country Squire Station Wagon) to the acquired tastes of the overseas market (Sunbeam Alpine, Triumph TR2, MG TF, Iso Isetta, Biscúter), All Cylinders: Cars of 1953 is a lively eBook that captures the spirit of the era and its innovation.
Past the great cars of the era, readers will also discover entries that cover the labor that built them, the roads, bridges, and tunnels they drove through, the races they ran in, the motorcycles, buses and trolleys they ran alongside or replaced, the policies that insured them and ads that sold them, the smog they belched, and the myriad technical advances that inched them toward the present.
With a snappy design and ample imagery from the era, All Cylinders: Cars of 1953 is sure to draw classic car fans into a now bygone era when America’s love affair with the automobile was at its apex.