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The PetSTEP rear seat/cargo vehicle cover protects your vehicle's rear bench seat while you are traveling with your dog. Made from a durable waterproof polyester fabric, the seat cover offers a universal fit, making it suitable for any car. The heavy duty polyester fabric protects your car seat from claws, moisture, hair and dirt. It's easy to install and remove. It simply attaches to the headrest posts with easily adjustable straps. It can also be attached to the back of the rear seat to protect the cargo area in the rear of the vehicle.

From the director of Divorce Italian Style, The Automobile, starring Italian movie icon Anna Magnani with music composed by the genius Ennio Morricone, is a classic example of 70s Italian style drama. Anna is an experienced prostitute who is perhaps a bit past her prime but has become an institution to the Roman nightlife. However, reflecting upon her life and hoping for a way out she purchases a convertible. She decides to take a trip to the beach in her new automobile and in the process ends up giving a lift to two young guys. Things deteriorate from there and she gets involved in a car accident that seems to take her right back to where she started.

This entry into the Biography series focuses on the magnificent Ford Model T car. The Model T helped popularize the automobile among consumers who couldn't previously afford to buy a car. This program presents a thorough overview of how the Model T was designed and how it came to be the first mass-produced car.

The history and cultural significance of one of the world's most well-known and admired cars is explored in A&E's AUTOMOBILES: BMW. Although the company was founded in 1927, it wasn't until the 1500 Coupe in the 1960s that BMW began its ascendency to the top of the automotive mountain. Take a peek behind the design and production of the "ultimate driving machine" in this fascinating program.

For anyone, young or old, who has ever wondered, how do they make those?-here is an entertaining, illustrated exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items. What are bulletproof vests made of? How do they get lipstick into the tube? How much brass does it take to make a trumpet? The answers-and so much more fascinating information-can be found in HOW THINGS ARE MADE, a behind-the-machine look at everyday objects of all kinds, from guitars, helicopters, and compact discs to lawn mowers, running shoes, and chocolate. Each page of HOW THINGS ARE MADE features informative, step-by-step text along with detailed illustrations, diagrams, and sidebars to tell the stories behind the things we sometimes take for granted but often wonder about. Did you know that Edison didn't really invent the light bulb? Or that the first bar code was on a pack of Wrigley Spearmint gum? Find out these answers and much more in HOW THINGS ARE MADE, which has a cover made of real denim with a pocket.

While 84 percent of American automobile owners express affection for their cars, only 15 percent take excellent care of their vehicles. Part of Entrepreneur magazine's popular StartUp series, Start Your Own Automobile Detailing Business shows entrepreneurs how to profit from the remaining 69 percent of the American public who are potential customers. This step-by-step guide will get aspiring automobile detailers heading in the right direction. Describing the entire process of building a business from start to finish, it discusses everything from analyzing the market to the day-to-day details of running the business. Additional resources are provided for further assistance and practical worksheets simplify the details of calculating costs and expenditures. Using simple instructions and clear vocabulary, the author comforts and encourages the reader while cautioning against potential hazards along the way. While the detailing profession is as old as the horse and carriage, the industry remains a largely unexplored territory filled with truckloads of opportunity for those who venture forward. In the last decade, entrepreneurs have been cashing in on this booming industry with proven results. This essential guide will give readers the jumpstart they need to start their engines today.

Entrepreneurs-Rev Your Engines! Fueled by people's passion for cars, the automobile detailing industry has been on the fast track for more than a decade. With only a moderate investment, a flexible work schedule and the possibility for huge profit, now is a great time to jump in the driver's seat and set out on the road to success. Packed with essential tools and tips, industry experts introduce you to the most popular detailing operations, then take you step by step from gathering your pit crew to learning the latest tools of the trade. In addition to getting a behind-the-wheel look at day-to-day operations, get immediate access to a wealth of information, including: Easy-to-understand descriptions of the three types of detailing operations: mobile, express and site-based A comprehensive resource listing of organizations, suppliers, government agencies and industry professionals Practical work sheets to help calculate costs, keep track of expenditures and stay organized Detailed instructions on marketing and generating new business including building your own website A detailed look at the newest tools of the trade, latest software and office equipment Thanks to the high price of new cars, people are keeping their wheels longer than ever, creating a growing, profitable industry for car lovers like you. Our experts have given you the road map for success-get ready, get set, go!

This magazine is edited for automotive enthusiasts interested in the impact the automotive world has had. Its focus ranges from cars and machines to road tests and road trips. It also includes reviews of new vehicles, tips for vintage car collectors and information about auto sports and the automobile business.

To its critics, the automobile is a voracious consumer of irreplaceable energy resources, a leading polluter of the environment, and a destroyer of cohesive communities. The most outspoken opponents call for greater regulations and restrictions to ultimately replace the automobile as the country's primary means of transportation. But their proposals all ignore one simple fact: Americans love their cars! Millions of citizens have made the automobile the most successful method of mass transportation ever developed, and they are not about to give up the personal mobility it offers. This book presents the controversial view that, for the vast majority of Americans, the automobile is not the problem, but the solution to transportation needs. While acknowledging the automobile's significant drawbacks, the author refutes much of the shrill rhetoric and doomsday predictions of its opponents. He takes a skeptical look at the major policy initiatives to tax, regulate, and provide alternatives to the automobile, pointing out that any policies designed to remove Americans from their cars without offering them a superior means of mobility are "worse than useless" and doomed to failure. The book offers suggestions and guidelines for politically realistic initiatives that preserve the benefits of the automobile while building public support for policies that will reduce its negative effects on energy use and the environment. James A. Dunn Jr. is professor of political science and public administration at Rutgers University-Camden. He was a member of the U.S. research team on MIT's International Automobile Program and he served as chairman of the South Jersey Transit Advisory Committee. He is the author of Miles To Go: European and American Transportation Policies (MIT, 1981).

A nostalgic look at the world's best-loved and most significant automobiles, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Automobiles celebrates 150 of the world's greatest cars, from the weird and wonderful to the largest, fastest, and most infamous. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Automobiles trace the story from the first mass-produced vehicles to the latest concept cars of today, including classics such as the Model-T Ford, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Jaguar E-type and the TVR Speed 12. Also included are a selection of one-off designs such as the car used in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Lunar Rover, and the Popemobile.

Carjacked   is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile’s contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14, 000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40, 000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.                                                            http://www.carjacked.org/

The Knox Automobile Company was a pioneer in the automobile business in New England. The company's founder, Harry Austin Knox, was born in 1875 in the outskirts of Westfield and went to school at the Springfield Industrial Institute. His practical work was done at the Elektron Company, manufacturers of electric motors and elevators, conveniently located next to the school building. He graduated at the top of his class of twelve in 1894 and gave the graduation address. A few years later, Knox built his first three cars, with the help of his former classmate Herman Farr. The two men returned to Springfield and talked Elisha Cutler into forming the Knox Automobile Company. The business started in 1899 with the manufacture of a three-wheeled vehicle with a six-horsepower, air-cooled engine. There was no reverse on the transmission, as the vehicle could turn a nine-foot circle. The three-wheelers were sold for cash right from the factory door. Though Knox had only a trade school education, he was an engineering genius. The company built everything from three-wheelers to tractors, buses, and the ultimate six-cylinder closed car with a 65-horsepower, water-cooled engine. The powerful six-cylinder cars won many hill climbs and races. Beginning in 1906, Knox built fire engines that made Springfield the first motorized fire department in the country. The company went out of business in 1927, after building thousands of machines, some of which are seen in this book, beautifully restored.

Tad Burness' Auto Album, a nationally syndicated newspaper feature seen by millions since 1966, transported readers to the autos of yesteryear. Now fans can trace over 200 years of automobile history and progression with more than 490 automobiles compiled from the Auto Album. Each automobile illustration is hand drawn. The accompanying text tells an interesting story about the car, manufacturer, or time period. None of these have ever before been reproduced in book form. Readers will take a nostalgic trip with the cars they remember and discover a few they may have never seen before. Automobile coverage includes classic domestic cars, pilot models, and imports made from 1784 to 1985. Specific cars can easily be found using the convenient index.

Cruise back in time to discover the technological innovations and sophisticated imports that changed the way we traveled. Plus a look at the collectors and craftsmen who honor these treasured vehicles.

A dazzling array of racers, roadsters, sports cars, and sedans roars to life in the pages of this appealing smaller format hardcover book. Despite the seeminggly simple A-to-Z format, this book covers an astonishing range of vehicles and delivers details and stories that will engage even the most sophisticated car enthusiasts. At the same time, the beautifully rendered illustrations are compelling enough to attract youn readers just beginning to explore the world of cars.

A dazzling array of racers, roadsters, sports cars, and sedans roars to life in the pages of this appealing smaller format hardcover book. Despite the seeminggly simple A-to-Z format, this book covers an astonishing range of vehicles and delivers details and stories that will engage even the most sophisticated car enthusiasts. At the same time, the beautifully rendered illustrations are compelling enough to attract youn readers just beginning to explore the world of cars.

The tumultuous history of inventors and corporations who have tried to bring the electric car to market. Amazingly, in 1900 28 percent of all cars were electric. By 1920 the electric car had all but vanished and gas-powered cars dominated the market. In Taking Charge, Schiffer deftly explores how cultural factors, not technological ones, explain the rise of gas-guzzling cars. For this edition, Schiffer brings the history of the electric car into the present, arguing that despite the Detroit Big Three’s reluctance to make electric cars, their time has finally arrived.

Vintage WisdomFor 45 years, Automobile Digest was the ultimate source of automotive wisdom, how-to advice, technical know-how and advertising for car professionals and hard-core enthusiasts. The magazine started out in 1918 as American Automotive Digest, then evolved into Automobile Digest before ceasing publication in 1953. During its time, the magazine was unrivaled as a definitive resource for product and repair information for true ?car guys.?Now, car fanatics can revisit the golden years of this historic publication with this compilation of six fantastic issues from the 1930s.Each issue is reproduced in its entirety ? more than 340 pages in all!

This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities--where most of the world's people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William Mitchell and two industry experts reimagine the automobile, describing vehicles of the near future that are green, smart, connected, and fun to drive. They roll out four big ideas that will make this both feasible and timely. First, we must transform the DNA of the automobile, basing it on electric-drive and wireless communication rather than on petroleum, the internal combustion engine, and stand-alone operation. This allows vehicles to become lighter, cleaner, and "smart" enough to avoid crashes and traffic jams. Second, automobiles will be linked by a Mobility Internet that allows them to collect and share data on traffic conditions, intelligently coordinates their movements, and keeps drivers connected to their social networks. Third, automobiles must be recharged through a convenient, cost-effective infrastructure that is integrated with smart electric grids and makes increasing use of renewable energy sources. Finally, dynamically priced markets for electricity, road space, parking space, and shared-use vehicles must be introduced to provide optimum management of urban mobility and energy systems. The fundamental reinvention of the automobile won't be easy, but it is an urgent necessity--to make urban mobility more convenient and sustainable, to make cities more livable, and to help bring the automobile industry out of crisis.Four Big Ideas That Could Transform the Automobile• Base the underlying design principles on electric-drive and wireless communications rather than the internal combustion engine and stand-alone operation• Develop the Mobility Internet for sharing traffic and travel data• Integrate electric-drive vehicles with smart electric grids that use clean, renewable energy sources• Establish dynamically priced markets for electricity, road space, parking space, and shared-use vehicles

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Herbie." "Punchbuggy." "Beetle." The world's most recognizable automobile goes by many noms de plume. But did you know that the "Love Bug" was originally conceived as Hitler's "car of the people, " or that it was the Manson "family"'s car of choice?Tapping into Americans' continuing obsession with the VW Bug, Phil Patton has written a kaleidoscopic history of the car from the 1950s to the 2000s. He describes the genius marketing strategy used in America to rid the car of its Fascist associations (VW hired a Jewish marketing team), and explains why designers are obsessed with its shape (the Bug, like the Pantheon, fits the Greek "golden ellipse" ideal of dimension). Patton posits that the Bug was the first car to cause Americans to "wrap themselves in a brand as an extension of their ideology, " and turn up their noses at the huge, showy cars produced in Detroit. Amazingly, it worked, and, based on the Beetle's continuing status as an American cultural icon, it still does. As Jonathan Yardley asserted in the Washington Post Book Review: "The original Bug was more than a car, it was an experience.

Abandoned junk to some, the rusty old steel shells of vehicles are treasures to others, holding memories of a bygone era, or the promise of a pristinely restored, radically customized automobile. Automotive photographer Will Shiers has captured these dreams on film for over ten years, and this volume collects his images between two covers for the first time. Here are the beautiful husks Shiers has found in the United States fields and barns, shops, and salvage yards across States. Divided into five categories—General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Independents, and Special Vehicles—these wrecks and relics from 1910 to the 1970s come equipped with all the relevant information: history, model, location. The most comprehensive and beautifully photographed collection of abandoned cars ever published, this volume preserves for all time the exquisite skeletons of American automotive might.

Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger, " writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering—a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford insurance, or too decrepit to get behind the wheel of a car. Indeed, a century of auto-centric culture and city planning has left most of the country with public transportation that is underfunded, ill maintained, and ill conceived. But as the demand for petroleum is fast outpacing the world's supply, a revolution in transportation is under way. Grescoe explores the ascendance of the straphangers—the growing number of people who rely on public transportation to go about the business of their daily lives. On a journey that takes him around the world—from New York to Moscow, Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Bogotá, Phoenix, Portland, Vancouver, and Philadelphia—Grescoe profiles public transportation here and abroad, highlighting the people and ideas that may help undo the damage that car-centric planning has done to our cities and create convenient, affordable, and sustainable urban transportation—and better city living—for all.

With an updated Afterword by the authorThis 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’s boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit’s self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry—the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration’s stake in Detroit’s recovery—Crash Course addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America?

In late 1910, three American adventurers set off on a remarkable around-the-world journey by automobile. Sponsored by the Hupp Motor Car Corporation, the trip was intended to publicize the durability of the Hupmobile and help stimulate export sales.The car was first driven from Detroit to San Francisco—a very difficult journey in its own right in 1910. From San Francisco, the car and its drivers took a steamship to Hawaii, and from there to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania, unloading and touring at each port of call. The men and their machine spent the next five weeks attempting to drive through the Philippines, and then pushed on to Japan and China, where they managed to stay one step ahead of the Chinese revolution. They then drove across India, and from there, sailed to Egypt, brining the first automobile ever to be seen in that country. Next, the Hupmobilists sailed to Italy. In Rome, the adventurers met Pope Pius X, and then drove north to Germany and France. They crossed the English Channel to Folkstone, toured England, and then ferried from Liverpool to Ireland. They returned to New York in time for the 1912 auto show. In the end, the Hupmobile was driven 41, 000 miles and transported by steamship another 28, 000. A new world was dawning, both for transportation and for American business enterprise.

UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION Praise for the first edition: “A meticulously researched book written in a popular style that’s difficult to put down. By skillfully weaving together the careers of David Buick and his contemporaries and their car, Larry Gustin fills a gaping hole in automotive history.” —David L. Lewis, professor of business history, University of Michigan “A good, succinct history of the early days of one of America’s great mainstream automo- biles, and the men responsible for it.” —Z. Taylor Vinson, The New York Times “If the question is Buick-related, Larry Gustin has the answer. He’s also an entertaining story teller and accomplished wordsmith.” —Don Sherman, technical editor, Automobile magazine “Gustin is an award-winning author and one of the world’s leading Buick authorities...the ideal person to write this book. He skillfully weaves the eventful story of the man who launched a world-famous automobile marque that became the favorite of royalty, business leaders and movie stars.” —Bill Vance, National Post [Canada] “The phrase, ‘It’s now or never, ’ explains the drive behind this work on David Buick. Larry Gustin has studied the person, his work and the characters in the David Buick drama for decades. In this book, he has brought all that research material into sharp focus. The interests of automotive history are well served by this welcomed work.” —Leroy Cole, past president, Society of Automotive Historians “When it comes to writing Buick history, Larry Gustin is one of the luminaries...Gustin wrote the first, and still the best, biography of Billy Durant and followed it by co-authoring a history of Buick that’s now in its sixth edition...it’s an energizing read.” —Jim Donnelly, Hemmings Classic Car magazine “Gustin...traces [David] Buick’s rise and fall in an entertaining, folksy style with new in- sights into the man and his machine.” —Matt DeLorenzo, editor, Road & Track magazine “Larry Gustin has at last brought us the long overdue story of a forgotten automotive pioneer. And he has done it in a manner that only a writer with a lifetime interest in the his- tory of the Buick automobile could ever hope to accomplish. It’s about time.” —Terry B. Dunham, president, The Buick Heritage Alliance “Gustin offers new insights into the largely unknown and often tragic life of David Dunbar Buick, a significant but neglected figure in the early automobile industry of Michigan... This is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the early history of Buick, General Motors and Flint, Mich.” —Charles F. Hyde, professor of history, Wayne State University

In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism.By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In "Driven Wild", Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders - Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country's wild places.As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were 'driven wild' - pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.

This is the most complete survey of America's most beloved cars, all photographed coast to coast in perfect period settings -- neon diners, one-of-a-kind hamburger stands, ice cream palaces, and drive-in movie theaters.

What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees?—find out in this light-hearted look at one man's overwhelming obsession with machinesThis is a book about machines and the men who love them. Some of these men are quite odd. Having always been a mechanophobe himself, living in the slow lane, Dan Kieran is on a mission to discover the allure of machines and man's need for speed. Follow Dan as he climbs aboard a penny-farthing for a jaunt around west London, drives a steam train through the "alps, " joins the pit lane crew of Mitsubishi for the Britcar 24-hour race at Silverstone, discovers the link between Lawrence of Arabia and the "wall of death, " meets tank collectors and the men behind "digger ballet, " learns to fly in the shadow of Douglas Bader, and, along the way, wrestles with Aristotle, Jeremy Clarkson, Plato, Hunter S. Thompson, and, mostly, himself.