With rich custom coachwork, bodywork fit for an art gallery, and massive engines tuned to perfection, these classics from the first half of the century are the world's greatest cars.Dennis Adler has crafted fascinating histories of the cars, their makers, and owners in this stunning new book. Examples from marques such as Duesenberg, Packard, Cadillac, Auburn, and Bugatti are described in compelling detail and shown in 200 exceptional color photographs.These were cars whose rolling chassis might have been built on one continent while their coachwork was crafted by automotive artists on another. Clearly, price was no object; only grandeur and road-going power mattered. Author Adler makes the case that no true classic cars have been built since the end of the era he covers here. One can only agree with his premise.

Speed & Luxury: The Great Cars

Dennis Adler

Motorbooks Intl

Unlike its contemporary luxury carmakers, which mostly produced one-of-a-kind, limited production automobiles, Packard built high-quality vehicles in volume while still turning a profit. Consequently, it was the only independent luxury car builder to survive the Great Depression. This is the complete story of Packard, from its earliest days in 1899 through its final demise in 1958. Archival b/w photos, as well as beautiful new colour photos, accompany a thoroughly researched text.

Packard

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

MBI Publishing Company

This book chronicles the entire history of Sam Colt's developments in handguns from the first Paterson revolvers through the legendary 1860 Army, and from the time of his death in 1862, the evolution of cap and ball revolvers into the cartridge models carried during the Western Expansion of the 1870s. Author and photographer Dennis Adler takes you on a pictorial voyage through history with striking studio photography of the world's greatest Colt revolvers, factory archival images and original patent drawings, and tales of the soldiers, lawmen, and lawbreakers who made Colt revolvers part of American history.

Colt Single Action: From Patersons to Peacemakers

History

Americas

Chartwell Books

Wax Lips &amp; White Bucks: Looking Back at What We Did. This book is an illustration in cartoons of what life was like growing up in a much different America, where the author states that: I hope that you have enjoyed this book about the things I remember growing up as a kid in the late '40s and early 50s. For some kids these were the most wonderful and simple times. We played street games 'till dusk. Mom was always home. Doors were never locked and on Halloween we went trick or treating for blocks without a parent escort. Dennis Adler's reflections in this book include running boards on automobiles, flattening pennies on a train track, haircuts, shoes, May baskets, tar chewing, wax lips, Cowboys and Indians, telephone gags, and a myriad of the innocent fun that was growing up in the late '40s and the 1950s before television, when America was at peace with the world and themselves; even though there was that police action in Asia called the Korean War.

Wax Lips & White Bucks

Stoop Id Publications LLC

Of all the legendary American armsmakers in the past 175 years, none embodies the genius and storied history of Colt's Patent Firearms-Manufacturing Company. Colt: 175 Years celebrates this renowned gunmaker's

Colt: 175 Years

Barnes&Noble

PaperbackPublisher: Blue Book PublicationsLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1886768242

The Blue Book of Airguns

Reference

Blue Book Publications

Beautifully written and photographed, this new 2nd Edition features stunning color photographs by award winning author and photographer Dennis Adler. Featuring the history of 2nd Generation Colt Blackpowder Pistols, the 2nd Edition Blue Book of Modern Black Powder Values is a must have for any black powder enthusiast and Civil War history buff.

The Blue Book of Modern Black Powder Values: Second Edition

S.P. Fjestad

Blue Book Pubns

This newest 4th Edition Blue Book of Modern Black Powder Arms by John Allen & Dennis Adler contains information and up-to-date pricing on most recently produced black powder reproductions and replicas, including today's crop of disc muzzleloading rifles. Since 1959, millions of black powder arms have been manufactured, and this is the only publication specifically available on this exciting and changing field of black powder shooting.

The Blue Book of Modern Black Powder Arms

John B. Allen

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Black Powder Long Arms &amp; Pistols - Reproductions &amp; Replicas by Dennis Adler is the only publication covering the wide variety of reproduction black powder long arms and pistols manufactured since 1959. The sister publication to the award-winning Black Powder Revolvers - Reproductions &amp; Replicas released in 2008, this lavishly illustrated deluxe book with hundreds of stunning color images is sure to be enjoyed and appreciated by black powder enthusiasts worldwide. Written and photographed by award-winning author and photographer Dennis Adler, this new title showcases the most recently manufactured makes and models. Black Powder Long Arms &amp; Pistols - Reproductions &amp; Replicas is a must-have book for anyone who collects or shoots black powder replicas.

Black Powder Long Arms & Pistols: Reproductions & Replicas

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

A FIVE STAR REVIEWED, OUT OF PRINT BOOK THAT IS A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE MOST RECOGNIZED SPORT-CAR MAKER IN THE WORLD - PORSCHE - A STORY THAT BEGAN MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. THE BOOK IS 348 PAGES, OVER-SIZED (11.1" X 8.9")WITH TEXT BY THE WELL-KNOWN DENNIS ADLER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF "CAR COLLECTOR" MAGAZINE, AND AUTHOR OF MORE THAN TWENTY BOOKS ON AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY AND VINTAGE FIREARMS.  HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN AWARD WINNING BOOKS ON PACKARD, CHRYSLER & MERCEDES-BENZ.  tHE NARRATIVE IS BRILLIANTLY COMPLEMENTED BY WONDERFUL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS & PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FACTORY ARCHIVES. PROVIDED THROUGH THE COOPERATION OF PORSCHE AG & THE PORSCHE FAMILY AS WELL AS ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR.

Porsche

Delius Klasing Verlag

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