American Work Trucks: A Pictorial History of Commercial Trucks, 1900-1994
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0873412907 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
1900- 1939 light and medium duty truck feast S. Jones This book of 300 pages contains several chapters written by an assortment of authors, some of whom have produced their own books. There are chapters on collecting truck toys, collecting real trucks, restoring, truck museums, truck memorabilia, trucking pioneers and Teamsters to name a few.T
A photographic essay on the romance of trucking, toy trucks, chain drive trucks, truck club growth, why trucks are collected, starting a truck collection and more!
The others talk about collecting as a hobby--similar to antique car restoration in that it involves a lot of time at fleamarkets, but different in that old truck parts can be extremely difficult to find. Gunnell also provides chapters on collecting toy trucks and on truck memorabilia, but the bulk of his book is given over to a pictorial history of trucks other than pickups from the 1904 Columbia electric truck to the 1994 White/GMC "integral sleeper aero." Studying these well-captioned, black-and-white photographs, the reader gets a sense of design changes and of the rise and fall of manufacturers such as Studebaker. Hays Truck Museum outside of Sacramento, a