Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin's Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity
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Dimitry Anastakis (Author)
Paperback
PRE-ORDER released 20 May 2024
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Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin's fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the history of the auto industry's birth, decline, and rebirth.
Written as an "open road," the book invites readers to travel a narrative arc that unfolds chronologically and thematically. Dream Car's seven chapters have been structured so that they can be read in any order, determined by whichever theme each reader finds most interesting. The book also includes a musical playlist of car songs from the era and songs about the SV1 itself. 66 colour illustrations, 54 b&w illustrations
About the Author
Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
More Details
- Contributor: Dimitry Anastakis
- Imprint: University of Toronto Press
- ISBN13: 9781487555825
- Number of Pages: 488
- Packaged Dimensions: 178x246x30mm
- Packaged Weight: 840
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Release Date: 2024-05-20
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
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