Challenging, colourful and fast moving are just some of the words often used to describe the auto industry. And given how busy many of us can get, it isn’t often we get time to reflect just how significant an impact the automobile and related businesses have had on society over the last century. Automania — A lighter look at auto history by Alan McPhee and David Lamb, provides perhaps the perfect anecdote to daily operations, giving us an entertaining look at some of the milestones in the car business.
Originally published back in 1990, Automania has now been given the 21st century treatment and is available for the iPad via the iTunes store. Retailing for $6.99 it includes some 450 published photographs and like the print edition, has been produced in conjunction with the National Automotive History Collection, located in the Detroit Public Library. “Like many collections and museums that preserve our past [the NAHC] needs support and so a portion of the net proceeds [from this book] will go to the collection to help it maintain its role as North America’s primary source of archival automotive material,” says McPhee.
Former auto executive Bob Lutz, who wrote the foreword for this book, also stressed the special responsibility needed to support organizations such as the NAHC as well as those archive and museum collections supported by auto manufacturers including the GM Heritage Center and Walter P. Chrysler Museum.
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