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- “Lightly used. No obvious wear or tear to dust jacket or book block.”
- Type
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- Publication Name
- Quarto Publishing Group USA
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780760350263
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN-10
0760350264
ISBN-13
9780760350263
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219929206
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cuba's Car Culture : Celebrating the Island's Automotive Love Affair
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Caribbean & West Indies, Automotive / History, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, Automotive / Antique & Classic, Automotive / Pictorial
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Transportation, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
42.3 Oz
Item Length
11.2 in
Item Width
9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-015438
Reviews
"Authors Tom Cotter and Bill Warner (founder of the Amelia Island Concours) take readers of Cuba's Car Culture on a whirlwind tour of all things automotive, beginning with Cuba's pre-Castro car and racing history and bringing us up to today's lost collector cars, street racing, and the challenges of keeping decades-old cars on the road. The book is illustrated throughout with rare historical photos as well as contemporary photos of Cuba's current car scene. For anyone who enjoys classic cars, from old Chevy Bel-Airs to Studebakers to Ford Fairlanes, a cruise around Cuba will make you feel like a kid in a candy store." - Luxury Travel Magazine, "The resulting book is a gorgeous homage to an automotive life that will no doubt change as the island begins again to trade with the United States."-- ShelfAwareness.com, "A lavishly illustrated photo history of the country's car culture...You'll see a culture frozen in time in terms of modern technology and conveniences but for vintage car buffs, you'll see a fantasyland of cars, everything from a Ford Model T to Ernest Hemingway's 1955 Chrysler convertible. You'll also learn fascinating historical trivia about Cuban car culture." - Travel Channel online, A beautifully photographed documentary of a summer 2015 visit by authors and automotive enthusiasts Tom Cotter and Bill Warner, and a history of the island's intertwined politics and passion for cars., "Cuba's Car Culture...is well written, with lots of political and racing history for background and context. The photos are great and leave the reader with a real sense of what it's like there."-- DeansGarage.com, Writer Tom Cotter, photographer Bill Warner and automotive historian Wellington Morton give us page after page of glorious color photos and easy-to-digest narrative on the history of Cuba's cars, the country and its proud people., A lavishly illustrated photo history of the country's car culture...You'll see a culture frozen in time in terms of modern technology and conveniences but for vintage car buffs, you'll see a fantasyland of cars, everything from a Ford Model T to Ernest Hemingway's 1955 Chrysler convertible. You'll also learn fascinating historical trivia about Cuban car culture., Trekking throughout the island, Cotter conducted interviews through translators and delved into Cuba's unique culture, while Warner spent his time behind the camera, capturing the number of beautiful, colorful, and enlightening photographs that are featured within the book's pages. By writing about the past, present, and future of Cuban cars, these two men allow readers to better understand the effect of the Cuban trade embargo on the country as a whole and its resulting array of vintage vehicles., "Writer Tom Cotter, photographer Bill Warner and automotive historian Wellington Morton give us page after page of glorious color photos and easy-to-digest narrative on the history of Cuba's cars, the country and its proud people." - theCoastNews.com, "A lavishly illustrated photo history of the country's car culture...You'll see a culture frozen in time in terms of modern technology and conveniences but for vintage car buffs, you'll see a fantasyland of cars, everything from a Ford Model T to Ernest Hemingway's 1955 Chrysler convertible. You'll also learn fascinating historical trivia about Cuban car culture."-- Travel Channel online, "Cuba's Car Culture...is well written, with lots of political and racing history for background and context. The photos are great and leave the reader with a real sense of what it's like there." - DeansGarage.com, A lavishly illustrated photo history of the country's car culture...You'll see a culture frozen in time in terms of modern technology and conveniences but for vintage car buffs, you'll see a fantasyland of cars, everything from a Ford Model T to Ernest Hemingway's 1955 Chrysler convertible. You'll also learn fascinating historical trivia about Cuban car culture., "Writer Tom Cotter, photographer Bill Warner and automotive historian Wellington Morton give us page after page of glorious color photos and easy-to-digest narrative on the history of Cuba's cars, the country and its proud people."-- theCoastNews.com, A beautifully photographed documentary of a summer 2015 visit by authors and automotive enthusiasts Tom Cotter and Bill Warner, and a history of the island's intertwined politics and passion for cars., "A beautifully photographed documentary of a summer 2015 visit by authors and automotive enthusiasts Tom Cotter and Bill Warner, and a history of the island's intertwined politics and passion for cars." - San Francisco Chronicle, "The resulting book is a gorgeous homage to an automotive life that will no doubt change as the island begins again to trade with the United States." - ShelfAwareness.com, "A beautifully photographed documentary of a summer 2015 visit by authors and automotive enthusiasts Tom Cotter and Bill Warner, and a history of the island's intertwined politics and passion for cars."-- San Francisco Chronicle, Cuba's Car Culture...is well written, with lots of political and racing history for background and context. The photos are great and leave the reader with a real sense of what it's like there., The resulting book is a gorgeous homage to an automotive life that will no doubt change as the island begins again to trade with the United States., C uba's Car Culture: Celebrating the Island's Automotive Love Affair documents Cuba's pre-Castro car days and racing history. The book examines today's lost collector cars, street racing, and the challenges of keeping a decades-old car running. Chevy Bel-Airs, Ford Fairlanes, Studebakers, and Soviet Ladas decorate the pages, showing Cuba's automotive landscape is both unique and endearing in its survival., You'll get fully informed on Cuba's Car Culture. It's far more in depth than I thought it would be, and terrifically full of photos of the cars and Havana., In many ways the book serves as a down-to-earth bible for the car nut in Cuba. Instead of just presenting artful photos of old Chevys and Fords lounging about in the streets of Havana as if it were a sunny day in 1959, Cotter and Warner actually tell us about them and investigate everything from parts-starved auto parts stores to car rallies and (outdoor!) car museums, to the condition of the roads and highways to Cuban restoration shops., Authors Tom Cotter and Bill Warner (founder of the Amelia Island Concours) take readers of Cuba's Car Culture on a whirlwind tour of all things automotive, beginning with Cuba's pre-Castro car and racing history and bringing us up to today's lost collector cars, street racing, and the challenges of keeping decades-old cars on the road. The book is illustrated throughout with rare historical photos as well as contemporary photos of Cuba's current car scene. For anyone who enjoys classic cars, from old Chevy Bel-Airs to Studebakers to Ford Fairlanes, a cruise around Cuba will make you feel like a kid in a candy store.
Synopsis
Cuba's Car Culture presents readers with Cuba's unique car culture, which harks back to the vintage rides of the 1950s and earlier. The book includes history, photos, and automotive commentary from experts., Cuba's Car Culture drives through Cuba's love of American cars of the '40s and '50s, and the ingenuity that keeps them running despite the U.S. embargo. 2017 Silver Medal Winner of the International Automotive Media Competition The story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed healthy tourism trade and American outpost status, and by the 1950s it had the highest per capita automotive purchasing of any Latin American country . But when Cuba fell to communist rebels in 1959, so ended the inflow of new cars. Since then, trade embargo forced Cuba's car enthusiasts to develop a unique and insular culture, one marked by great creativity, such a s: -Keeping a car alive with no opportunity to acquire replacement parts -Customizing a car with no access to aftermarket parts -Drag racing with no drag strip In many ways, Cuba is an automotive time warp , where the newest car is a 1959 Chevy or perhaps one of the Soviet Ladas. Cuba's Car Culture offers an inside look at a unique car culture, populated with cars that have been cut off from the world so long that they've morphed into something else in the spirit of automotive survival. Authors Tom Cotter and Bill Warner (founder of the Amelia Island Concours) take readers on a whirlwind tour of all things automotive , beginning with Cuba's pre-Castro car and racing history, up to today's lost collector cars, street racing, and the challenges of keeping decades-old cars on the road. Cuba's Car Culture is illustrated throughout with rare historical photos as well as contemporary photos of Cuba's current car scene. For anyone who enjoys classic cars , whether they're old Chevy Bel-Airs , Studebakers , or Ford Fairlanes , a cruise around Cuba will make you feel like a kid in a candy store., Cuba's Car Culture drives through Cuba's love of American cars of the '40s and '50s, and the ingenuity that keeps them running despite the U.S. embargo., Cuba's Car Culture presents readers with Cuba's unique car culture, which harks back to the vintage rides of the 1950s and earlier. The book includes history, photos, and automotive commentary from experts. Welcome to Cuba's automotive time capsule, filled with classic cars. The story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed healthy tourism trade and American outpost status, and by the 1950s it had the highest per capita automotive purchasing of any Latin American country - its middle class ensured an interesting variety of vehicles plying the roads. But when Cuba fell to communist rebels in 1959, so ended the inflow of new cars. Since then, trade embargo forced Cuba's car enthusiasts to develop a unique and insular culture, one marked by great creativity, such as: Keeping a car alive with no opportunity to acquire replacement parts Customizing a car with no access to aftermarket parts Drag racing with no drag strip In many ways, Cuba is an automotive time warp, where the newest car is a 1959 Chevy or perhaps one of the Soviet Ladas. Cuba's Car Culture offers an inside look at a unique car culture, populated with cars that have been cut off from the world so long that they've morphed into something else in the spirit of automotive survival. Authors Tom Cotter and Bill Warner (founder of the Amelia Island Concours) take readers of Cuba's Car Culture on a whirlwind tour of all things automotive, beginning with Cuba's pre-Castro car and racing history and bringing us up to today's lost collector cars, street racing, and the challenges of keeping decades-old cars on the road. The book is illustrated throughout with rare historical photos as well as contemporary photos of Cuba's current car scene. For anyone who enjoys classic cars, from old Chevy Bel-Airs to Studebakers to Ford Fairlanes, a cruise around Cuba will make you feel like a kid in a candy store.
LC Classification Number
TL33.C83C68 2016
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