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Report an issue with this product or seller. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Harvey Smith. Thoroughly enjoyed this, and recommend it! I'm rarely disappointed in a Goodreads Giveaway and sometimes get lucky and get an really exceptional book. They say it's a must-read for car enthusiasts. The painstaking care that the owners of the vehicle exhibit followed by the tenacity of an Author on a mission makes this a story that everyone who remembers classic American cars can't miss.

Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. They say it's creatively intertwined to tell the stories of 12 people. A copy that has been read but remains intact. More reviews and ratings. In the end, when the Chevy is rebuilt, reborn in the junkyard, most of the old owners return for one last visit. They find it a great book for car enthusiasts, as it blends people and car stories creatively.

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If you are interested in the way Americans live today, this book is one you must read. Please try again later. You know Tommy, or Mary, or the '57's original owner Nicholas Thornhill, they are your uncle, your brother, and old girlfriend, someone you used to drink with. But what hit me in that first sentence was the word 'wifebeater', which appears to be an item of apparel.

Told in words and eight pages of photos, this wise, charming, and heartbreaking true story is an indelible portrait of a man, a machine, and a nation on the road from a glorious past into an unknown future. So Interesting - and funny too. So, hassled by banks and the FBI, the Chevy's thirteenth owner embarks on a mission to save the car and preserve the long record of human experience it carries with it—before his own volatile demons doom him and the car.

One of them is the ability to appreciate a "nice car". It sounded like it might be quite interesting, though, admittedly, I only looked at it in the first place because I'm doing a "57" challenge.

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The transformation of car and owner is incredibly engaging and I recommend it to anyone who loves a good story. The author tells Arney's story deftly and with great, often raw, humor, and it rarely loses momentum. And yet, in Swift's telling, Arney is something of a charmer as well as a Tasmanian devil. Jake Fones. He lives in the Blue Ridge mountains west of Charlottesville.

He never buries the lede. It's open to the rain. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Jonathan Rintels.