Top Gear: Daft Cars
Top Gear: Daft Cars

Author: Matt Master

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1409071421

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From flying cars to amphibious vehicles, solar-powered saloons to rockets on wheels, these are over 50 of the most wacky cars ever devised. Fancy a car that drives sideways? Try the Jeep Hurricane. Or maybe a car in which the windows change colour according to your mood for a more serene and health-giving driving experience? That'll be the Toyota RiN. And if you like a flutter, you'll need the Chrysler Town and Country Black Jack, which contains a mini onboard casino. Some concept cars are designed to demonstrate alternative materials and energy sources, or to showcase the gadgets of the future, or even cater for specific lifestyles or groups of people. Many don't even get beyond the prototype stage - for reasons of cost or practicality, or, in the case of the nuclear-powered Ford Nucleon of 1958, the danger of causing a small atomic explosion. Featuring everything from practical experiments such as the hatchback fire engine, and ideas that have managed to make it into production, to stunning yet impractical supercar concepts, this book both celebrates and cringes at some of motoring's most daft - and even idiotic - ideas.

The Streetcars of New Orleans
The Streetcars of New Orleans

Author: Elbridge Harper Charlton

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781455612598

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This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans. This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction (1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes. A series of maps pinpoints, for traction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides information on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included is a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction era. Authors Hennick and Charlton also have collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of Louisiana , also published by Pelican.

V10 Vixen a Woman's View on Motoring
V10 Vixen a Woman's View on Motoring

Author: Joanna Barker

Publisher:

Published: 2009-02-28

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1409268357

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V10 VIXEN does not just give her funny yet amazing descriptions on Supercars but cars - that are closer to her heat, Classic Cars and practical cars. This first book as she is writing many more! Brings all her different Motoring Tastes together and gives WOMAN PETROL HEADS VIEW ON MOTORING - which is new because most books are written by men.

Chicago Cable Cars
Chicago Cable Cars

Author: Greg Borzo

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 161423759X

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When most people hear "cable car" they think "San Francisco." Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride--and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the "L," Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed--even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years. . .