Automotive Traveler: at 2013 Fabulous Fords Forever!


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For 28 years Ford fanatics have gathered at Knott's Berry Farm to celebrate the cars, trucks, and history of the Ford Motor Company. This year, through the efforts of the Ford Car Club Council, more than 2,100 Fords, Lincolns, and Mercurys were on display, from the Model T to the latest Mustang. This book serves as a historic overview, featuring the cars selected by the event to be showcased by the event's organizers providing a retrospective of the 110-year history of the Ford Motor Company. Two series of cars were singled out; the Model A celebrating its 85th birthday, and the mid-sized Torino, which was introduced 45 years ago. With so many cars and trucks on display, this is the first in what is planned to be a series of four books covering this year's Fabulous Fords Forever! Next up will be a volume featuring classic full-sized, post-war Fords from 1949 to 1972, followed by with a book covering many of the early Mustangs on display, and concluding with an edition that will feature a cross section of all the Fords on display this year at Knott's Berry Farm. With the introduction of an all-new Mustang next spring, the 2014 Fabulous Fords Forever! show will certainly mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Ford's trend-setting Pony Car.




Automotive Traveler: at Fabulous Fords Forever! 2013, Volume Two


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For 28 years Ford fanatics have gathered at Knott's Berry Farm to celebrate the cars, trucks, and history of the Ford Motor Company. This year, through the efforts of the Ford Car Club Council, more than 2,100 Fords, Lincolns, and Mercurys were on display, from the Model T to the latest Mustang. This book, the second in a series of four volumes, covers full-sized Fords from 1949 to 1972. After World War Two it took Ford four years for the company to introduce its all-new first postwar models but they were worth the wait, full of innovation from bumper to bumper. Here's a list of the cars profiled. 1950 Ford Custom Tudor sedan owned by Richard_Osborn 1951 Ford Custom convertible owned by Steve Boskovich 1953 Ford Crestliner hardtop owned by Angelo Palmer 1953 Ford Ranch Wagon station wagon owned by Vic Parker 1954 Ford Customline sedan owned by Jack Redman 1955 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria sedan owned by George Thomsen 1955 Ford Fairlane sedan owned by Peter Laries 1956 Ford Crown Victoria sedan owned by Buzz Brandt 1956 Ford Customline sedan owned by Roger Wasby 1957 Ford Country Sedan station wagon owned by Lewis and Sherry Archuleta 1957 Ford Country Squire station wagon owned by Woody Downing 1957 Ford Ranchero pickup owned by Paul and Cher Raganis 1957 Ford Sunliner convertible owned by Tom Howard 1958 Ford Country Squire station wagon owned by Richard Osborn 1958 Ford Ranch Wagon station wagon owned by John and Pam Evasic 1959 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible owned by Robert McMahon 1959 Ford Galaxie sedan owned by Ray and Angie Borego 1959 Ford Skyliner retractable owned by Wayne MacCarthney 1960 Ford Galaxie Starliner hardtop owned by Chuck and Melanie Haase 1960 Ford Starliner hardtop owned by Stella Pineda 1961 Ford Galaxie Starliner owned by Bill and Steph Pratt 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop owned by Paul Leone 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 XL hardtop owned by Les Bateman 1963 Ford Galaxie hardtop owned by Pat Gagan 1964 Ford Country Squire station wagon owned by Rick Renze 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop owned by Mike Verlatti 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop owned by Paul Ginsburg 1964 Ford Galaxie Country Sedan F350 turbo diesel station wagon owned by Charles Lightner 1965 Ford Custom sedan owned by Steven Cate 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 owned by Robert Champoux 1966 Ford Galaxie 7-Liter hardtop owned by Jack Potter 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible owned by Jim and Valerie Ellerbrock 1967 Ford Country Squire station wagon owned by Michael Klyde 1969 Ford LTD hardtop owned by Miguel DelGado 1970 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop owned by Peter and Maria Gonzalez 1970 Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon owned by Charles Oliver With so many cars and trucks on display, this is the second volume in what will be a series of four books covering this year's Fabulous Fords Forever! Next up will be a volume featuring early Mustangs and the series will conclude with an edition that will feature a cross section of all the Fords on display this year at Knott's Berry Farm. With the introduction of an all-new Mustang next spring, the 2014 Fabulous Fords Forever! show will certainly mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Ford's trend-setting Pony Car.




Automotive Traveler's Classic Car


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The 2014 Fabulous Fords Forever! show brought together more than 1,700 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles. Automotive Traveler's Classic Car's Editorial Director Richard Truesdell attended and complied this photo album book highlighting the vehicles that the Ford Car Club Council selected to be featured which included the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Mustang in 1964, the 55th birthday of the Galaxie and the 75th birthday of Mercury. Held annually at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, the event celebrated its own 29th birthday this year and is billed as the largest Ford-only event on the West Coast. The book also displays the the Johna Pepper award for the event's top car, a 1965 Ford Mustang fastback owned by Neal Polan and the Bill Stroppe award for the show's best truck, a 1967 Ford Bronco owned by Kiyoshi Uchiyama.







My New Roots


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At long last, Sarah Britton, called the “queen bee of the health blogs” by Bon Appétit, reveals 100 gorgeous, all-new plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook, inspired by her wildly popular blog. Every month, half a million readers—vegetarians, vegans, paleo followers, and gluten-free gourmets alike—flock to Sarah’s adaptable and accessible recipes that make powerfully healthy ingredients simply irresistible. My New Roots is the ultimate guide to revitalizing one’s health and palate, one delicious recipe at a time: no fad diets or gimmicks here. Whether readers are newcomers to natural foods or are already devotees, they will discover how easy it is to eat healthfully and happily when whole foods and plants are at the center of every plate.




The Deal Maker


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The roller-coaster life of the flamboyant creator of General Motors William C. Durant did big things the big way: he overreached, but, until his final failure, he picked up the pieces time after time to confound his competitors. From a turbulent childhood in the small town of Flint, Michigan, to his phenomenal success in creating General Motors, Durant's meteoric career easily rivals the success stories of modern legends like Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, and Bill Gates. With his trademark smile and personal charisma, Durant assembled General Motors in a few short years, buying companies at the rate of one every thirty days. Durant's deal-making artistry even tempted Henry Ford, and had Durant upped his acquisition price Ford would be a division of GM today. Durant's story illuminates the conflict between innovation and control of innovation -of the uneasy alliances struck again and again between inventors and their sources of capital. His years of heady success building General Motors were marked by epic struggles with bankers. But he depended on only a few sources of big money to finance his exploding business, and pitted himself against forces he underestimated or refused to consider. Gambling on a run on GM stock, he was finally forced into a buyout that ousted him from his role in the GM empire. Into the dramatic tale of this early twentieth-century mogul come the fascinating automotive pioneers -Henry Ford, David Buick, Charles Nash, Albert Champion, Louis Chevrolet, and Alfred P. Sloan. On Wall Street, J. P. Morgan turned down Durant's request for a loan while Pierre du Pont invested in Durant's expansion. Tracing the fortunes of a man and his era, The Deal Maker is a fast-paced, rousing tale of Durant's dizzying success and ultimate failure.




The Complete Book of Ford Mustang


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The Complete Book of Ford Mustang, 4th Edition details the development, technical specifications, and history of America’s original pony car, now updated to cover cars through the 2021 model year.




First Overland


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Why Not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys – half way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the desrts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were ‘just too many rivers and too few roads'. But no-one really knew … In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had no money, no cars, nothing. But with a cool audacity, which was to become characteristic, they set to work – wheedling and cajoling. First, they coaxed the BBC to come up with some film for a possible TV series. They then gently persuaded the manufacturers to lend them two factory-fresh Land Rovers. A publisher was even sweet-talked into giving them an advance on a book. By the time they were ready to go, their sponsors (more than 80 of them) ranged from whiskey distillers to the makers of collapsible buckets. In late 1955, they set off. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two very weary Land Rovers, escorted by police outriders, rolled into Singapore – to flash bulbs and champagne. Now, fifty years on, their book, ‘First Overland', is republished – with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. After all, it was he who gave them that film.




Ingenious


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An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond—into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite—a start-up backed by millions in venture capital—designs a car that looks like an alien egg. Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US."




Written in My Own Heart's Blood


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In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it “a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].” Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family’s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood is the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.