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QOTD: What Should Be On My Bookshelf?
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: July 18th, 2012
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Having tracked down a copy of Car by Mary Walton, I am now eyeballs deep in the birth and gestation of the DN101 Taurus.
I don’t think I can ever review a car, or write an obnoxious “Brand X Needs To Build Vehicle Y RIGHT NOW” article after reading the unbridled tsuris that results from deciding where to place a rearview mirror. And I really wish I went into some kind of STEM field (who am I kidding, my best math mark ever was a “D”).
Since I’m clearly not a Science or Math kid, all I can do is read. So far I’ve knocked off Arrogance and Accords, and have Car Wars and Where the Suckers Moon in the queue. What else should be added to the pile?
Derek Kreindler
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Published July 18th, 2012 11:44 AM
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"Taken for a Ride" by Bill Vlasic and Bradly A. Stertz copyright 2000 talks about Daimler's takeover of Chrysler in 1998. It would be interesting to see what Chrysler would be like now if it had remained independent and not decimated by Daimler. Lee Iacocca's books are all good. His first one Iacocca, Talking Straight which talks about buying AMC and is 2008 book Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Also I would recommend American Motors: The Last Independent, Consumer Guide had a book of American Cars from the 1930s to the 1980s that told about all the different automakers and their cars. Also my favorite for facts and figures are the Standard Catalog of American Cars series. Also I like to read the Consumer Guide yearly book over cars for a certain year. They are a time capsule of road tests and features of cars of that year.
Well this doesn't count as a BOOK obviously, but after seeing a few mentions of the Vuic book on Bricklin... maybe you can skip the book and just go see the musical! Does this qualify as the only car-related musical ever? Or just the only current one? http://www.bricklinmusical.ca/
Something a little different, but it would be of interest to the staff, as well as the readers: "Muscle Car Confidential (Confessions of a Muscle Car Test Driver)", Joe Oldham. This tells the story of Joe's tenure as pretty much *the* main East Coast road tester during the height of the musclecar era. It's not just about the cars, but also about the crazy not-politically-correct East Coast magazines, and how one very lucky young man got started in the biz.
Book; "Drive it forever", great book! A lot of it is common sense but there are some intriguing parts to the book. I plan on driving my 1999 Civic forever and so I got the book. http://www.amazon.com/Drive-It-Forever-Secrets-Automobile/dp/0965757706