Antique Cars

Dennis Adler is the editor in chief of Car Collector Magazine and consultant/historian/author for four publishers and organizations, including senior contributing editor of The Star -- the offi cial publication of the Mercedes-Benz Club of America. He serves on the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance Selection Committee and as a chief class judge at the Meadow Brook and Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. He is a noted portraitist of automotive collectors and their collections and is the author of twenty automotive books, including The Art of the Sports Car and The Art of the Automobile (Collins). He lives in western Pennsylvania.

YA?Images of handsome vintage cars are generously spread across large glossy pages in this satisfyingly useful book. An introduction covers what the term "classic car" means, goes on to discuss such models by decade, and has a section on the purchase of such a vehicle. One-paragraph profiles of innovators such as Andre Citrone, Ferdinand Porsche, and Lee Iacocca are included. But the drawing card here is the cars. There are more than 90 of them, all displayed in splendid full-color photographs. Front, side, and top views are shown in closeup shots of dashboards, grills, interiors, etc. Nothing as crass as purchase price is mentioned. Definitely the stuff of dreams.?Frances Reiher, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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