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Studebaker: America's Most Successful Independent Automaker
Patrick Foster
- List Price: $40.00
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- Publisher: Motorbooks
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- Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
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Product Description:
Studebaker began business as a builder of covered wagons. By 1921 they were the number four automaker in the nation. By 1932 they were bankrupt. And for Studebaker, one of the most remarkable stories in American automotive history, that was only the beginning. Studebaker: America's Most Successful Independent Automaker tells the full and fabulously colorful history of this icon of the American automotive scene. Rife with triumph and tragedy, brilliant moves and boneheaded decisions, Studebaker’s decades of building cars makes for a tempestuous saga featuring some of the more interesting characters in the twentieth-century business world. But, above all, the story features cars that, for countless Americans, truly defined driving: not just the Champion, which rocketed the company back to the top in 1939, or the 1950s Raymond Lowey-designed Starliner, deemed a “work of art” by the Museum of Modern Art, but also the Hawks and Larks that so many drivers loved. As the book traces Studebaker’s fortunes from success to crisis to merger and back, it also dwells with loving photographic attention on the vehicles, from the first electric car to the last Avanti.
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks
- ISBN: 0760332878
- Dimensions: 10.9 x 9.4 x 1 inches
- Weight: 2.75 pounds
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Customer Reviews
- Marks Picks
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- This book is a comprehensive detail of the once mighty Studebaker Corporation. Lots of great pictures and insightful comments about this great marquee. I would give it 5 stars.
The book also arrived in perfect shape. - Great Book
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
- This is a super book for the Studebaker fan! Looking forward to the reaction of the person I'm giving it to this week! Sure he'll love it!
- A Great History Book of Studebaker
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- Even if you thought you have learned everything about Studebaker, you willfind new info in this book. Not only a great coffee table book but also a great referance book.
- Dad enjoyed it
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- I bought this for my dad's birthday. His first car was a '51 Studebaker, and when he and Mom married, they had a '53 ~ the car my mom learned to drive. He enjoyed reading about the cars and the company. The pictures are great.
I liked that the book is broken down into timeframes. There are pictures throughout. It's a nice coffee table type book. - Studebaker
- Avg. Customer Rating: 2 Stars
- I was hoping for NEW pictures.All are previously posted! It looks like the book was RUSHED to publication.
