Everyone who owns or drives a car will find this an enlightening and entertaining reference work, packed with fascinating and amusing anecdotes, statistics and world records from all fields of automotive endeavor. The ingenious inventors and daring drivers who pushed the automobile to new record speeds are here, with descriptions of the cars they drove and the tracks and roads they conquered. This history of equipment, road regulations and achievements of everyday motoring tells how your car became what it is today, from the development of headlights to the use of license plates and the opening of the first drive-in movie. The graceful antique and classic automobiles, the roaring racing machines and the assembly-line runabouts are all part of the exciting story of the automobile, told here by a team of renowned authorities and illustrated with over 200 action photographs, many in full color.
