Art of the classic car pdf

Be the first to ask a question about Art of the Classic Car. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Art of the Classic Car. Sep 26, Erin rated it really liked it Shelves: first-reads. I received this book through Goodreads First Reads.

This is a really good read for anyone who loves classic cars. The photos are absolutely stunning and the essays on each vehicle are extremely informative. I also liked how each vehicle had a "specifications of interest" box that gave you more information of the car you are reading about.

Definitely an interesting read! Feb 13, Marathon County Public Library rated it it was amazing Shelves: adult , adult-nonfiction , mcpl-review. Hardoldt and Bodensteiner's beautiful coffee-table book is a sumptuous, authoritative tribute to classic cars of the 20th Century. Bursting with full-page and close-up detail pix done by Hardoldt, the book also features a comprehensive and informative history of the various cars by Bodensteiner.

Car buffs will enjoy this delightful treat. Mike O. Jun 28, Rebecca Eve rated it really liked it Shelves: first-reads , books-i-own. A beautiful coffee table book full of excellent photography. I won this in a Goodreads giveaway.

I barely had a chance to read it before my Dad saw it and "borrowed" it. He's a huge fan of classic cars and loved it. Aug 31, Noah added it. Aug 07, Peter Tillman rated it really liked it.

Great photography of mostly fabulous cars, ranging from to just before WW2. Highlights are the great cars of the 2os and 30s -- the Deusenbergs, Mercedes. Packards, Bentleys, Chryslers, Cords Lets just say, even Bill Gates would notice if he bought a garage-full of thee babies. My favorites? Te Type 57S chassis was victorious at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and that performance pedigree carries over to the Atalante. Its high-compression straight-eight engine produces horsepower in a car weighing around 3, pounds.

Bugatti also produced a Type 57SC, which added a supercharger to produce horsepower and a top speed of mph. To win four times is something else altogether. Eight cars represented Delage, a company that was eventually absorbed by Delahaye in Delahaye then introduced a new eight-cylinder engine in in its D and D chassis, which were the basis for a number of cars that were built by the top coachbuilders of the day.

This particular car, however, is built on a prototype T chassis that featured a lowered suspension, a narrow track, and a larger engine. One look is all you need to know that this is an incredible automobile.

Te side glass is particularly elegant, with no weatherstripping—however practical—wedged between the front and rear windows. Tere is almost no chrome trim either, nor parking lights or bumpers.

An immaculately turned- out engine bay and a set of ftted luggage round out the stunning appearance of this unique automobile. It came to the United States in the mids and went through a series of owners before Mann became aware of the car and was able to purchase it. Afer more than two years of restoration and body repair, it emerged to the delight of the Pebble Beach audience. Tis incomparable work of automotive art lives up to that expectation in full.

Te Xenia is in fact named afer the late wife of its initial owner and creator, Andre Dubonnet. Te Frenchman, who made a fortune making fortifed wines, was also an inventor and racing driver. Dubonnet loved Hispano-Suiza automobiles and had many custom vehicles built on their chassis. Dubonnet designed a unique independent suspension system, which was ftted to the Xenia. More curved glass pieces were used to complete the rest of the canopy-like greenhouse, which tops of a fuselage-shaped body.

Te front fenders look at least somewhat conventional, but the rear fenders are shaped somewhat like the fairings one would fnd on the wheels of a streamlined propeller plane, and they taper into a wide, fat tail. Te car was hidden away during World War II; afer surviving the scourge of war, it reappeared in Instead, it is the innovative construction that makes this elegant coupe stand apart.

Rather than the conventional body-on-frame arrangement, superleggera construction used triangulated, small-diameter tubing welded together to create a very light, very stif chassis, upon which a body would be formed and shaped. Te result was a car that weighed 2, pounds when equipped with its hand-formed, aluminum body—at the time, cars of a similar style and size might weigh more than 4, pounds. Tis certainly helped the car perform, so much so that this particular car, chassis number , was the winner of the inaugural Watkins Glen Grand Prix in It also has independent front and rear suspension and hydraulic drum brakes.

Each of the 40 or so examples of this car that were built is diferent; this one can be identifed by its slotted rear fender skirts and the side-hood louvers that extend into the cowl scutttle. In fact they showcase luxury and innovation on par with everything else in this book. Tis 6,pound Depression-era drop- top could exceed miles per hour—admirable numbers today, let alone 80 years ago. Te Silver Arrow was built by Pierce- Arrow as an exclusive luxury car to top all that had come before.

Our two Chryslers point in opposite direc- tions. Te Airfow was way ahead of its time, with an aerodynamic, unitized body that set many precedents but failed to fnd many customers. All of these sedans, for diferent reasons, exemplify the art of design and engineering that make any car a work of art.

A Duesenberg SJ Convertible Sedan he Duesenberg marque is truly one of the most out- standing in American automotive history, particularly in terms of the excellence of the cars it produced.

As part of the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg company, headquartered in Indiana, the brand got its name from the Duesenberg brothers, August and Fred, who had built Indianapolis —winning race cars. Like many of the automakers of the era, the Duesenberg company focused on building chassis and engines, letting outside coachbuilders create bodywork suited to the demands of the end customer. Tis gave Duesenberg a car to have on hand which could be shown to prospective customers.

Like many Duesenbergs this car is quite massive; in typical Duesy fashion, however, its cid Model J engine is up to its job. Te engine is a four-valve, double overhead-cam straight eight. Unlike many Duesenbergs, this engine has a beautiful 8-into-1 exhaust manifold that emerges from the side of the hood, rather than the characteristic four fex pipes. Te engine could propel this 6,pound-plus behemoth to more than mph—a notable speed for a passenger car of the time.

Te frm did eventually succumb during the long years of the Great Depression, but not before it produced a luxury car to top all its previous eforts—the Silver Arrow. Only fve Silver Arrows were produced, and only three examples survive today. Most notably, the Silver Arrow did away with running boards; instead, its front fenders fowed straight back into a slab-sided body, an arrangement other manufacturers would soon imitate though usually without hiding spare tires within said fenders, P as the Silver Arrow did.

Te defning feature of the rear was the pair of tiny, triangular rear windows mounted up high—a clear example of form trumping function, as can happen with any vehicle so stylish. In Europe a town car was called a Sedanca de Ville, and in this line of classifcation, the Hispano- Suiza J was called a Sedanca Drop-Head Coupe, having only two doors but the open-front, closed-rear styling of a town car.

Tey spared little expense in outftting their bodies, specifying high-grade cast hinges, closely fitted T bodywork, and a distinctive, polished brass belt molding. Te company produced about bodies during its seven years of existence, but very few of them survive. Te V engine that Hispano-Suiza introduced in its J in is remarkable for its size nearly 10 liters, with a square, mm bore and stroke and its smooth power delivery—paramount for providing a VIP with a comfortable yet speedy ride to his or her destination.

Each engine was milled straight out of a pound aluminum billet. A seven-main-bearing crankshaf weighing about 70 pounds no doubt helped the coupe move more like a locomotive than a passenger car. It needed 12 seconds to reach 60 mph, but could motor on up past miles per hour.

While Hispano-Suiza had previously produced advanced overhead cam engines, the J engine reverted to an in-block camshaf and overhead valvetrain to reduce the amount of mechanical noise emitted from the engine.

Only approximately examples of this exclusive, expensive automobile were produced before production ended in Te kept the front- wheel-drive technology from earlier Cord cars but wrapped it in a striking Art Deco—style body that eschewed running boards and featured innovative, crank-operated, concealed headlights.

It was inten- ded to slot above the Auburn and below the Duesenberg in the marketplace, and was priced similarly to a Cadillac. Gordon Miller Buehrig, an in-house designer for the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg company, directed the creation of this beautiful car. In lieu of a separate front grille, the front of the car was equipped with louvers that ran below the hood line on one side of the car, wrapped around the front of the car and down the other side, and ended at the cowl.

W Cord Model C92 Beverly Sedan Among the other unique advances were a unitized body and independent front suspension beneath its pontoon fenders. Te driver also enjoyed a tachometer, and the dash had a built-in radio. A preselector gearbox controlled the fow of power from the Lycoming engine back to the driven rear wheels. Te company went out of business in , having fnally been ground down by the Great Depression.

I would argue that, when looked at in a certain way, it is a bridge between the past and the present. It is not a coachbuilt, one-of-a-kind car, nor is it a run-of- the-mill production car, given its extensive and beautiful wood body. Once upon a time wood was a common material to use in cars, even as structural pieces. Te metal roof encompassed the rear window and sloped down to the beltline above the luggage doors.

Te rest of the body between the roof and fenders was made of wood—white ash for the structural pieces and beautifully contrasting Honduran mahogany for the darker, inset panels. Only of these were manufactured; were nine-passenger versions like this one. It consisted of a fuid coupling between the engine and clutch that allowed the driver to stop or start the car, and to shif between frst and second gears, without using the clutch—perfect for easy around-town driving.

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