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Author: Colin Peck Publisher: David and Charles ISBN: 1845845900 Category : Languages : en Pages : 155
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Wooden-bodied shooting brakes, station wagons and estate cars, collectively known as Woodies, were the original SUVs (sports utility vehicles). While they were initially created for a specific purpose, their versatility, adaptability and load-carrying abilities meant that they quickly found favour with British buyers from all walks of life. In their heyday, they were built on virtually every make of car and light commercial chassis, and could be seen on every road in Britain. Sadly, today they are a rarity due mostly to the fact that their wooden bodies were not built to last – and most didn’t! Thousands were built by hundreds of coachbuilders, both large and small, and with the passage of time it may never be possible to record all of their details with any accuracy. The work of hundreds of small coachbuilder firms is highlighted and illustrated with 99 rare and previously unpublished photos of these wooden wonders.
Author: Colin Peck Publisher: David and Charles ISBN: 1845845900 Category : Languages : en Pages : 155
Book Description
Wooden-bodied shooting brakes, station wagons and estate cars, collectively known as Woodies, were the original SUVs (sports utility vehicles). While they were initially created for a specific purpose, their versatility, adaptability and load-carrying abilities meant that they quickly found favour with British buyers from all walks of life. In their heyday, they were built on virtually every make of car and light commercial chassis, and could be seen on every road in Britain. Sadly, today they are a rarity due mostly to the fact that their wooden bodies were not built to last – and most didn’t! Thousands were built by hundreds of coachbuilders, both large and small, and with the passage of time it may never be possible to record all of their details with any accuracy. The work of hundreds of small coachbuilder firms is highlighted and illustrated with 99 rare and previously unpublished photos of these wooden wonders.
Author: Woody Holton Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476750394 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 688
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A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes. Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans—enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters—and on overlooked factors such as weather, North America’s unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics. Liberty Is Sweet is a “must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation” (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turn—for example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the war—this majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.
Author: Richard Bloechl Publisher: ISBN: 9780970466709 Category : Station wagons Languages : en Pages : 0
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A pictorial history of the evolution of the wooden station wagon in America. Over 300 photos illustrate the evolution of the station wagon from the early 1900's Depot Hack to the stately estate wagons of the 1950's. The historical facts are traced in the accompanying text that runs throughout the book. The 160 pages contain mostly colour images of every kind of wooden station wagon produced. This hard cover volume is finished with a full colour wrap.
Author: Hans Halberstadt Publisher: Metro Books ISBN: 9781567999099 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 120
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Long before the sport utility vehicle revolution, surfers on the Southern California coast discovered the perfect vehicle for hauling their boards, beer, and buddies to the beach. Wood-paneled wagons and trucks were produced for a relatively short time, but by the mid-1960s, old ones were available in abundance and on the cheap: a surfer could plunk down less than $100 and drive off with what has since become a classic. Immortalized in the songs of the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, woodies have a following unlike that of any other collector automobile. Increasingly rare, difficult to restore, and demanding rigorous care and maintenance, these once-cheap utility vehicles have become among the most desirable and expensive of all classic cars.
Author: Elizabeth Woody Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 9780816514656 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 152
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Poems on those "who are not often heard from:" salmon, trees, edible roots, berries, deer. In Cricket, she writes: "Brilliant, he bristles as an undercover militant. / Hand winging in the air, / running the current of his backward hair. / Dogged, he insists on an argument." By the author of Hand into Stone.
Author: Lorin Sorensen Publisher: ISBN: 9781580085496 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 248
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When you think of Woodies, you'¬?ve got the 1929 to 1951 Fords in mind. Always the most popular station wagons during that time with their sporty wood-paneled bodies, they were the ones that met the trains in old movies, the ones California surfers and the Beach Boys made so famous, and the ones still often sighted on the road today. “They are to cars what Chippendale is to furniture,” says Architectural Digest, referring to Woodies'¬? gleaming maple craftsmanship. Now some of the hottest collector cars on the planet, these unique America auto legends are rediscovered in FAMOUS FORD WOODIES for new fans and old by veteran Ford historian Lorin Sorensen.The story of all the beautifully crafted 1929–51 Ford woody models, with the original company publicity photos and press releases.Includes more than 200 black-and-white and color photographs.A book that takes you back to America'¬?s great era of automobile craftsmanship.
Author: Phil Cordelli Publisher: ISBN: 9781937027216 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Poetry. The product of years of investigation and husbandry, Phil Cordelli's MANUAL OF WOODY PLANTS is a field guide to the workings of memory and perception within the creeping and ebbing of the natural world. The poems, each named for a type of North American flora, move with a light precision through the myriad intricacies and immensities that combine to form each human ecosystem and explore how these systems blend from one person to the next."
Author: Colin Peck
Author: Colin Peck
Author: Donald J. Narus
Author: Woody Holton
Author: Richard Bloechl
Author: Hans Halberstadt
Author: Leigh Anne Florence
Author: Woody Jackson
Author: Elizabeth Woody
Author: Lorin Sorensen
Author: Phil Cordelli