Old Car Detective (eBook)

Favourite Stories, 1925 to 1965

Bill Sherk (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
216 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-1769-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In this hilarious collection of old car stories, Canada's very own "Old Car Detective" Bill Sherk presents 80 of his favourite stories spanning the years from 1925 to 1965. Behind every old car there's a story waiting to be told, all the way from your grandparents' Model T Ford to the Mustang you drove in high school.

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In this hilarious collection of old car stories, Canada's very own "e;Old Car Detective"e; Bill Sherk presents 80 of his favourite stories from all 10 provinces, spanning the years from 1925 to 1965. In this book you will meet the man in New Brunswick who chopped the top off his 1927 Whippet sedan in honour of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the young fellow from Kingston, Ontario, who thought his 1937 Ford coach looked better with all four fenders taken off; the owner of a 1947 Hudson that burned so much oil he had to wear a snorkel mask while driving it; the father who borrowed his son's hot-rodded '53 Monarch (built only in Canada!) and got pulled over by the police for street racing; and the grandmother who moved from England to Canada and drove her Morris Minor on the wrong side of the road. Behind every old car there's a story waiting to be told, all the way from your grandparents' Model T Ford to the Mustang you drove in high school. All the stories and photographs in this book are in chronological order from 1925 to 1965, giving you a 40-year journey through Canada's rich automotive heritage and brought to life by the people who owned and drove the cars of yesteryear - and some still do! PART ONE (1925 to 1942) takes you from the middle of the Roaring Twenties to February 1942, when the Second World War brought automobile production to a halt for three long years. PART TWO (1946 to 1965) takes you through the Baby Boom years when cars driven by Canadians went through many exciting changes in styling and engineering. If you have ever owned (or still own) a car that was built between 1925 and 1965, turn to the last page in this book to see how you can send in your story for Bill Sherk's next book.

Autor

Bill Sherk is a feature writer for Old Autos and also writes a weekly syndicated "Old Car Detective" column for 30 Canadian newspapers. He enjoys tracking down old car stories from all across Canada. In 2005 Dundurn Press published his bestselling illustrated book I'll Never Forget My First Car: Stories from Behind the Wheel.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.3.2011
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Automotive nostalgia, Hilarious stories (1947 Hudson), Heart-warming stories (father and son 1934 Chevrolet coach), Learning to drive (1928 Essex), Detective work (1929 Graham-Paige, 1929 Hudson, 1930 Model A roadster), Buyer beware (1938 Ford), Instant convertible (1927 Whippet) • Born and died in Hamilton (1955 Studebaker), Back seat urinal (1927 Pontiac), Fender skirts (1951 Monarch), Engine transplants (1951 Monarch, 1957 Chev), Cars for fishing and hunting (1928 Durant), Standing on running boards (1931 Chev), Engine given a burial (1926 Studebaker) • Car found in junkyard (1941 Oldsmobile), Car found in swamp (1942 Ford), Hitch-hiker refuses second ride (1947 Hudson), Dipstick made of wood (1955 Volkswagen), Grandmothers behind the wheel (1955 Morris Minor), Searching for your favourite car (1956 Ford, 1958 Pontiac) • Fender bender (1931 Model a Ford), Childhood memories of Dad’s car (1930 Packard), Cars and weddings (1930 Oldsmobile), Cars and marriage (1964 Malibu), Supertest all-Canadian gas station (1951 Chevrolet), Crank starting at Model T Ford (1926 Model T Ford), A&W Cruise Nights (1930 Model A Ford) • High school hot rods (1932 Ford), Dating disasters (1936 Chev), Parking tickets (1936 Studebaker), Cars in the movies (1940 McLaughlin-Buick), Pulled over by police (1937 Ford in Ottawa, 1937 Ford in Kingston), Stopping for gas at clear vision pump (1938 Pontiac) • Part Two Intro) • Rock ‘n’ roll music and cars (1965 Mustang), Second honeymoon cars (1959 Corvette), Cars in scrapyards (1947 Chevrolet, 1949 Monarch), Cars with no floor (1949 Meteor), Honking and waving at other sports cars (1959 Austin-Healey Sprite), Canadian car in Florida (1952 Meteor) • Wooden bumpers on new cars (1946 Hudson
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-1769-4 / 1459717694
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-1769-5 / 9781459717695