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With a grandfather who drove a horse car in 1900 and who later had a 25-year career as a chauffeur for a wealthy family, Nelson Bolan has a unique viewpoint about the automotive industry during the first half of the 20th century. In later years, Bolan began his own car acquisitions. His first, a 1929 Chevrolet, was purchased for $100 in celebration of his brother's safe return from World War II and his own high school graduation. It had an outside gasoline gauge, and if the driver forgot to read the gauge before getting into the driver's seat, he had no way of knowing how much fuel he had. (Chevrolet made the change to dashboard gauges in 1930.) The car also had actual wooden floor boards, which were removed and reinstalled easily when servicing was necessary.
This automotive memoir includes a chapter for each of Bolan's first forty cars, including photographs of the actual vehicles where possible. Most were well aged at the time of purchase; the earliest was a 1917 Dodge Brothers. A nostalgic but factual recollection of each car in the order it was acquired, the book includes interesting information about each model and Bolan's mechanical adventures from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. 1929 Chevrolet
2. 1934 Oldsmobile
3. 1925 Dodge Brothers
4. 1921 Ford
5. 1923 Dodge Brothers
6. 1923 Lincoln
7. 1942 Chevrolet
8. 1939 Plymouth
9. 1941 Dodge
10. 1936 Dodge
11. 1917 Dodge Brothers
12. 1946 Hudson
13. 1940 Dodge
14. 1951 DeSoto
15. 1930 Ford
16. 1950 DeSoto
17. 1933 Franklin
18. 1949 Dodge
19. 1948 Plymouth
20. 1952 Mercury
21. 1955 Pontiac
22. 1938 Chrysler
23. 1955 Plymouth
24. 1940 Chrysler
25. 1938 Chrysler
26. 1950 Chrysler
27. 1962 Dodge
28. 1960 Plymouth
29. 1961 Plymouth
30. 1967 Plymouth
31. 1962 Dodge
32. 1962 Buick
33. 1967 Plymouth
34. 1964 Ford
35. 1971 Chevrolet
36. 1969 Dodge
37. 1969 Pontiac
38. 1973 Pontiac
39. 1971 AMC
40. 1983 Dodge
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