American Motors Corporation

"Patrick Foster's American Motors Corporation: The Rise and Fall of America's Last Independent Automaker is the definitive history of the AMC corporation. Featured vehicles include the Rambler, Javelin, and more, as Foster walks the reader through not only the history of an American classic, but a history of the automotive industry itself as it evolved through emissions restrictions and the gas guzzlers of the 80s and 90s"-Provided by publisher.

Auteur

Patrick R Foster (oldemilfordpress.com) has spent more than 30 years studying the automotive industry. The leading authority on AMC and its predecessors, Pat has written several books on that subject and others, including Jeep, Studebaker, Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, and Metropolitan. His popular columns appear in Hemmings Classic Car and Old Cars Weekly, and he has won awards for his books and articles from the AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) and SAH (Society of Automotive Historians). In 2011, he was honored with the Lee Iacocca Award—one of the most coveted awards in automotive writing.

Texte du rabat

This engaging book, from one of America's best-known automotive writers, provides the ultimate inside look into an American corporation that rose from the death throes of the independent auto industry before succumbing to the corporate machine.