Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond

Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond

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With an updated Afterword by the author

This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry’s rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit’s Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit

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Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile

Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile

 Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile

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Cool Automobiles images

Check out these automobiles images:

First automobile on the Index-Galena road
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Image by UW Digital Collections
First automobile on the Index-Galena road, 1911

Photographer:
Pickett, Lee

Subjects:
Flanders automobile
Automobiles–Washington (State)–Index
Galena Road (Wash.)
Portraits, Group–Washington (State)
Hilton, Bailey
Flanders, Peter
Pennington, James
Van Olinda, D.I.
Pickett, Lee

Digital Collection:
Lee Pickett Photographs
content.lib.washington.edu/pickettweb/index.html

Item Number: PIC0002

Persistent URL:
content.lib.washington.edu/u?/pickett,1

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Early Morning 261/365: Automobile
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Image by Jer Kunz
The dew is starting to get heavier and heavier, we have had mornings of frost, but this wasn’t one of them. Fall is coming.

BTW, I’m just going to brag about my wife for a second, tomorrow morning (07/19) she’ll be running a marathon in Logan, UT. Go Min!

This is my "Automobile" entry to the 2009 Photo Challenge hosted by photochallenge.org.

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Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design

Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design

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A deluxe volume that explores the evolution of the streamlined automotive shape from the 1930s to the 1990s. Originally produced as the official catalog for a 2007 exhibition at the Phoenix Museum of Art, Curves of Steel celebrates the intersection of style and aerodynamics that is the hallmark of streamlined design in the twentieth century. The book features some of the most important examples of streamlined automobiles, which top scholars selected from North America’s most significa

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Jess Dixon in his flying automobile

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Jess Dixon in his flying automobile
3983331817 d4e9c04ac7 Jess Dixon in his flying automobile

Image by State Library and Archives of Florida
Local call number: PR75950

Corporate Author: Kobel Feature Photos (Frankfort, Ind.)

Title: [Jess Dixon in his flying automobile]
Date captured: c. 1940

Physical descrip: 1 photoprint: b&w; 5 x 7 in.

Series Title: (Print collections. Series/Collection number: M82- 38, Florida tourist photographs, 1880-1945.)

General Note: Accompanying note: "Built by Jess Dixon of Andalusia, Ala. Can fly forward, backward or straight up or hover in the air. Runs on road or flys across country. 40 H.P. motor, air cooled, speeds to 100 m.p.h."

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: http://ibistro.dos.state.fl.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/5?library=PHOTO&item_type=PHOTOGRAPH&searchdata1=PR75950

1935 DeSoto automobile
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Image by UW Digital Collections
1935 DeSoto automobile

Photographer:
Unknown

Subjects (LCSH):
DeSoto automobile
Automobiles
Lakes
Mountains

Digital Collection:
Transportation Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/transportationweb/index.html

Item Number: TRA0002

Persistent URL:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/transportation,31

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Women and children on an automobile outing
4670205264 fe2c4235da Jess Dixon in his flying automobile

Image by UW Digital Collections
Women and children on an automobile outing, ca. 1910

Photographer:
Unknown

Subjects (LCSH):
Automobiles
Women
Children
Portraits, Group

Digital Collection:
Transportation Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/transportationweb/index.html

Item Number: TRA0196

Persistent URL:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/transportation,14

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University of Washington Libraries. Digital Collections http://content.lib.washington.edu/

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The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology Reviews

The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology

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Born in 1861 near Canton, Illinois, Charles E. Duryea had learned the trade of a mechanic following his graduation from high school, and subsequently turned his interests to bicycle repair. He and his brother James Frank, eight years younger, eventually left Illinois and moved to Washington D.C., where they were employed in the bicycle shop of H. S. Owen, one of that city’s leading bicycle dealers and importers. While in Washington, Charles became a regular reader of the Patent Office Gazette,[3

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Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado (LOC)

A few nice automobiles images I found:

Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado (LOC)
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Image by The Library of Congress
Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer.

Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado

1940

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Automobiles
Hay
United States–Colorado–Delta County

Format: Slides–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 11671-17 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34202

Call Number: LC-USF35-254

Voiture automobile, Luchon
2552574849 26d56ed0d2 Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado (LOC)

Image by Bibliothèque de Toulouse
Fonds Trutat – Photographie ancienne

Cote : TRU C 45
Localisation : Fonds ancien
Original non communicable

Titre : Voiture automobile, Luchon

Auteur : Trutat, Eugène
Rôle de l’auteur : Photographe

Lieu de création : Bagnères-de-Luchon (Haute-Garonne ; canton)
Date de création : : 1904 [?]

Mesures : 5 x 5 cm
Mot(s)-clé(s) :
– Automobile — Homme — Conducteur — Costume masculin — Casquette — Route — Maison — Montagne — Vallée
– Béraldi, François

– Bagnères-de-Luchon (Haute-Garonne ; canton) — Pyrénées (France) — Lys, Vallée du (France)

– 20e siècle, 1e quart

Médium : Photographies
Médium : Positifs sur plaque de verre — Négatifs sur plaque de verre — Noir et blanc — Portraits

http://numerique.bibliotheque.toulouse.fr/cgi-bin/library?c=photographiesanciennes&a=d&d=/ark:/74899/B315556101_TRUC0045

Bibliothèque de Toulouse. Domaine public

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The Allure of the Automobile: Driving in Style, 1930-1965

The Allure of the Automobile: Driving in Style, 1930-1965

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A celebration of the finest designs of the Golden Age of automotive design. The Allure of the Automobile presents eighteen of the world’s rarest and most brilliantly conceived cars from 1930 to the mid-1960s, including masterpieces from Bugatti, Dusenberg, Delage, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and Ferrari. Created for the privileged few (and in some cases previously owned by Clark Gable and Steve McQueen), these luxurious, custom-built automobiles embodied speed, style, and elegance; they in

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Nash car dealership

Some cool cars images:

Nash car dealership
2898496299 c2e920ebc7 Nash car dealership

Image by The Library of Virginia
Title: Nash car dealership

Creator: Adolph B. Rice Studio

Date: March 20, 1954

Identifier: Rice Collection 294F

Format: 1 negative, safety film, 4 x 5 in.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA, 23219, USA, digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R

[Bob Burman, race car driver] (LOC)
2163470598 fb7571cdab Nash car dealership

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Bob Burman, race car driver]

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Current title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the source: Flickr Commons Project, 2008.
Title on negative: "Burman."
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Automobile racing

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09237

Call Number: LC-B2- 2202-4

Decorated Saab car as sculpture (back-er)
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Image by Chris Devers
Fittingly, the license plate said "MEOW".

See this picture for a little more of the hood.

I’m not sure which Saab model it is: maybe a 90s vintage 900 or 9000, or maybe a 2000-ish 9-3 (first generation) or 9-5.

In any case, the real answer is that this car is truly one of a kind now.

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Bostonist.com: Bite Size News, July 29, 2008 icon smile Nash car dealership

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UPDATE 12 Jan 2010: Spotted again! I saw the car while driving through Harvard Square this morning, and was able to stop & get a few more photos of this magnificent, magnificent beast of a car — and with the better camera, too. Enjoy!

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UPDATE 30 Mar 2010: The hunt is on! Teresa Hanafin at Boston.com’s RAW Blog today ran Who drives this funny car?, in which a Globe reader from Andover is asking for info about the owner of the car, noting that it has been several times in Boston’s northwest suburbs (Burlington, Arlington, Andover, Cambridge, etc). According to some commenters, the owner may live (or work?) in Belmont, as it seems like it’s seen there pretty often.

I don’t want to infringe on the driver’s privacy too much, unless she wants to "out" herself as the owner of this fine machine, so I’ll simply add the handful of clues that I have:

• Both times I’ve seen the car, a woman was driving it.
• When I saw it in Harvard Square in January, she was wearing a Dr Seuss hat.
• When I saw it near the Museum of Science in July 2008, there was a couple of kids in the back seat, one with curly (red?) hair.
• She’s way ahead of you on the "EYESORE" jokes icon smile Nash car dealership

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UPDATE 31 Mar 2010: The Boston.com blog post ferreted out the info within hours:

Jenny wrote to let us know that a correspondent for one of the Globe’s regional editions wrote about the car, identifying the owner, about a year and a half ago.

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Nice Autos photos

A few nice autos images I found:

National Auto Museum, Reno – 1933 Auburn Speedster
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Image by The Brucer
The Museum’s placard for this car reads:

1933 AUBURN
Model: 12-161A Custom Speedster
Built by: Auburn Automobile Co., Auburn, Indiana
Body by: Limousine Body Company
Price: ,495
Engine: Lycoming, OHV, V-12 cylinder, 160 H.P.
Bore: 3-1/8 in.
Stroke: 4-1/4 in.
Displacement: 391.2 cu. in.

Named for the town of its birth, the first production Auburn car was built in 1903 at the Auburn Automobile Company in Auburn, Indiana. The first cars were single-cylinder runabouts with tiller steering. A 2-cylinder model was added in 1905. In 1910, the company began to produce a 4-cylinder car, and 1912 saw introduction of a 6-cylinder car. Auburn cars were well made and reliable but ordinary in appearance, offering nothing that could not be found in many other makes. In 1924, E.L. Cord bought the Auburn company and had the entire model range redesigned by J.M. Crawford. The1925 cars were handsome and well built, consisting of 4-, 6-, and 8-cylinder models with two-tone color schemes. Anticipating future expanded production, Cord bought the Duesenberg Motor Company, two body-making companies, and an engine-making company in 1927. At first, the Depression did not affect Auburn as it did many other makes. 1931 was Auburn’s best year, as a record 28,103 cars were built and sold. Auburn kept their cars affordable, the least expensive model being a 1932 two-passenger coupe selling for 5. This was the only 12-cylinder car ever to sell for under ,000, well below rival V-12 cars such as Cadillac (,495), Lincoln (,700), or Pierce-Arrow (,450). Models remained basically unchanged through 1933, with only 6,000 cars built and sold. 1934 saw new designs, and in 1935 a new sports design was announced. These cars also remained unchanged through 1936, and although a new range of Auburns had been planned for 1937, production ceased as the company never fully recovered from the Depression.

Donated by: Harrah’s Hotels & Casinos
Adopted by: David & Linda Aguire (F), Steve Winters

1961 Auto Union 1000 S (01)
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Image by GS1311
The Auto Union 1000 was a compact front wheel drive saloon manufactured by Auto Union AG between 1958 and 1963. It was the first (and in many markets the last) model branded as an Auto Union by the manufacturer since the 1930s: it replaced the paradoxically named DKW 3=6, although the latter continued in production, reassuringly now branded as the DKW 900, for another year. The two cars were broadly similar, but the new car had its two stroke engine enlarged to 981 cc yielding a 10% – 37% (according to model) power increase.

(Wikipedia)

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Der Auto Union 1000 war ein Mittelklassewagen mit Frontantrieb von DKW bzw. Auto Union, der 1958 den „Großen DKW 3=6“ (F93/F94) ablöste. (Vorgänger des Großen DKW war die Sonderklasse F91.)

Die Auto Union produzierte im Düsseldorfer Werk 171 008 Stück des Auto Union 1000 und 1000 S. Ab August 1959 kam eine Kombi-Version unter dem Namen „Universal“ hinzu. Höhepunkt der Baureihe war das Auto Union 1000 S de Luxe Coupé mit Scheibenbremsen.

(Wikipedia)

Audi A3 TDI LA Auto Show
5188770846 7d3445bc8c Nice Autos photos

Image by Audi USA
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Lamborghini Reventon at the 2007 LA Auto Show

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Lamborghini Reventon at the 2007 LA Auto Show
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Image by TheKenChan
Lamborghini Reventon at the 2007 LA Auto Show

National Auto Museum, Reno – 1942 Packard Custom Convertible Victoria
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Image by The Brucer
The Museum’s placard for this car reads:

1942 PACKARD
Model: Super-8 Custom One-Eighty Convertible Victoria
Built by: Packard Motor Car Co., Detroit, Michigan
Body by: Darrin
Price: ,550
Engine: L-Head 8 cylinder, 165 H.P.
Bore: 3-1/2 in.
Stroke: 4-5/8 in.
Displacement: 356.0 cu. in.

By 1937, custom coachwork was almost an art of the past. Standard Packard bodies had reached such a degree of comfort and perfection there was little desire for anything finer or flashier, except among the flamboyant and publicity-conscious stars of stage and screen. In that year, Howard “Dutch” Darrin created a beautifully designed convertible on a Packard 120 chassis for actor Dick Powell. Others were built for Clark Gable, Al Jolson, Chester Morris, and Rosalind Russell. By 1939, there was so great a demand for the Darrin-designed Victoria Convertibles that Packard was unable to fill all the orders. West coast customers had Pasadena’s Bohman & Schwartz build replicas, while those in the east turned to Rollston & Derham.

In 1940, Packard persuaded Darrin to go to Detroit to design semi-custom bodies for the factory. The Darrin-designed Victoria Convertibles can be identified by a low hood silhouette with a narrow louver strip, cut-down doors, and Vee windshields that give them a very sporty appearance. The Packard Darrin is one of the most prized Packards in the classic car market today.

Donated by: Harrah’s Hotels & Casinos
Adopted by: Packard Auto Classics (E)

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