Motorcars of the Golden Past

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Motorcars of the Golden Past
Ken W. Purdy
with color photographs
by Tom Burnside
Motorcars of the Golden Past displays in superb full color the creme de la creme of the largest and most coveted collection of antique, classic and vintage cars in the world.
This is the fabulous Harrah's Auto-mobileCollection in Reno, Nevada, which contains over a thousand pace-maki ng and sometimes exotic automobiles patiently searched out by William Harrah's buyers and ex-actingly restored by a large permanent staff to the condition in which they originally left the factory.
William Harrah's purpose in amassing the collection is to illustrate in depth the history of the automobile. He says: "Few material things have been as important to America as the automobile. The manufacture of the automobile was the root of our industrial growth, and for decades now it has been the central support of our economy. We are all tied to the automobile by history,
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Motorcars of the Golden Past
Ken W. Purdy
with color photographs
by Tom Burnside
Motorcars of the Golden Past displays in superb full color the creme de la creme of the largest and most coveted collection of antique, classic and vintage cars in the world.
This is the fabulous Harrah's Auto-mobileCollection in Reno, Nevada, which contains over a thousand pace-maki ng and sometimes exotic automobiles patiently searched out by William Harrah's buyers and ex-actingly restored by a large permanent staff to the condition in which they originally left the factory.
William Harrah's purpose in amassing the collection is to illustrate in depth the history of the automobile. He says: "Few material things have been as important to America as the automobile. The manufacture of the automobile was the root of our industrial growth, and for decades now it has been the central support of our economy. We are all tied to the automobile by history,
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by business, by emotion. The automobile deserves to be preserved and remembered!'
Now Tom Burnside has photographed one hundred of these outstanding motorcars and the dean of automobile writers, Ken Purdy, has provided informative and entertaining biographies for them in this magnificently illustrated volume.
In period, these illustrious carriages range from an 1899 De Dion-Bouton tricycle to a 1938 Rolls-Royce town car. They include rich men's and poor men's machines, American, British and Continental. Some are the ancestors of cars still in production or at least in use; many are survival pieces from a more elegant age—one that prized and could afford to pay for craftsmanship; afew will be remembered only by connoisseurs. All belong in the pantheon of the Western world's favorite mechanical gods.
Full-color, full-page photographs and double-page spreads put them all on glorious exhibit while smaller photographs highlight interesting or unusual details such as hubcaps, dashboards, woodwork, brasswork, radiator emblems and the like.
A true collector's volume, Motorcars of the Golden Past is a handsome addition to every gentleman's library and one which automobile enthusiasts especially will treasure.
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