Road Trips, Head Trips and Other Car-Crazed Writings
This book is a delightful, eclectic look at all things automotive. Including fiction, journalism, and poetry, it offers such classic voices as Ernest Hemingway during his newspaper days, John Steinbeck and his search for America (accompanied by his French poodle, Charley), and the wonderfully witty S.J. Perelman, whose letters to the neighbors tell of a disastrous cross-country voyage by car to California.\ The good-ol'-boy world of stock-car racing travels to deepest France with hysterical...
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Road Trips, Head Trips and Other Car-Crazed Writings is a delightful, eclectic look at all things automotive. Including fiction, journalism, and poetry, it offers such classic voices as Ernest Hemingway during his newspaper days, John Steinbeck and his search for America (accompanied by his French poodle, Charley), Bob Ottum's hysterical report on a trip to France with NASCAR champion Cale Yarborough (Le Mans hasn't been the same since Ol' Cale's Camaro), and the wonderfully witty S. J. Perelman, whose letters to the neighbors tell of a disastrous cross-country voyage by car to California. Whether fact or fiction, playful or contemplative, the selections in Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings comprise a riotous anthology that fully explores our love affair with the automobile. "As these essays, poems and stories attest, the automobile is more to us than just a transportation device. Steinbeck, Hemingway and Kerouac, along with thirty others write passionately of the road, documenting the special bond we have with our vehicles and celebrating the places, people and things we meet." -- Ann Arbor News Car and Driver A consistently entertaining book.
PrefaceIntroduction1The Freedom of Wild Ducks11How the Car Changed America15As Animals22A Fascination That Was27Juan Manuel Fangio34The Man Who Could Do Everything48A Letter60Heck, Mes Amis, It's Only Ol' Cale63Tragic Superhero of American Racing74Stand on It!86Out of Control!99Followers104History of the Studebaker Corporation, 1852-1923109The Bugatti114Car v. Bike125One Fake Ferrari132Down the Hatch142Rex Harrison Memorable in "Amateur Driver" Role149Wilf the Wheelman152Back Door Beauty...and Finally a Bit of Serious Drag Racing on the Strip157Streaked!161Log of the Earthtoy Drifthumper165Slow Down and Die173On the Horns of a Dilambda176On the Road180Night Driving183Not from the Back Seat187Car Prestige193My Brave New Face196Hiro Yamagata's Holy Ghost XX Century Automobiles203Border Patrol209Travels with Charley220Ruth and Augustus Goetz239The Great GP Trek242On the Road250Acknowledgments255
\ Ann Arbor NewsAs these essays, poems and stories attest, the automobile is more to us than just a transportation device. Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Kerouac, along with thirty others, write passionately of the road, documenting the special bond we have with our vehicles and celebrating the places, people and things we meet.\ \ \ \ \ Car and DriverA consistently entertaining book.\ \ \ David E. DavisA great sampling of the best in our field. -- Automobile Magazine\ \ \ \ \ European CarIf you enjoy the heart, soul and philosophy of cars as much as the sheet metal, this book is a "don't miss."\ \
