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Number of Pages: 64 Number of Images: 45 color, 50 B&W
Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-09839573-2-4 Publisher: Studebaker National Museum in conjunction with Sharf Marketing
Link to Website: www.studebakernationalmuseum.org
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: A Hundred Years on the Road
Chapter Two: Out Ahead In Style
Chapter Three: Five Weeks in Palm Springs
Chapter Four: Builders of Champions
Chapter Five: Americas Most Advanced Automobile
Chapter Six: Paradise Lost
Chapter Seven: The Last Dance
Awards:
1st Place, 2013 NAAMMY (National Association of Automobile Museums)
Reviews of Book:
Avanti Magazine, Summer/Fall 2012
The Studebaker National Museum: Over a Century on Wheels
Brief Description:
A coffee-table style book looking at Studebaker history through the collections of the Studebaker National Museum.
Details:
Number of Pages: 160 Number of Images – Color: 188 Black and white: 190
Price: $42.50 ISBN:978-1-934729-02-1
Publisher: MT Publishing
Link to Website: www.mtpublishing.com
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: Meet the “Studenbeckers”
Chapter Two: Wait for the Wagon
Chapter Three: Transitions
Chapter Four: Evolution
Chapter Five: Recovery
Chapter Six: Duty
Chapter Seven: Limelight
Chapter Eight: Decline
Chapter Nine: Legacy
Chapter Ten: The Collection
Reviews of Book:
Hemmings Classic Car, July 2009
If you want to read a concise, to-the-point book on the history of Studebaker, this is it. Produced in conjunction with the Studebaker National Museum, it’s written by Andrew Beckman, the museum’s archivist, so you know the information within is well researched.
Right from the start, and all the way through page 159, the author retraces the entire Studebaker journey, beginning with the men behind the marque and following through to the decline of this once-great manufacturer. My favorite chapter is Chapter Four, called “Evolution,” which showcases many of Studebaker’s worthy vehicles, including farm wagons, fire trucks, Indy cars and the Rockne, too.
The book’s horizontal format measures 11 x 8.5 inches, features a hardcover with dust jacket, and is printed on high-quality coated stock. Every page is in full color, and loaded with lots of period photographs, Studebaker literature and many interesting archive images showing Studebaker cars, trucks and Jeeps being produced. Several prototype mockups are shown, as are vintage photos showing Studebakers out on the street, in parades and competing on race tracks.
All in all, this is a very entertaining and informative read that is light on text but heavy on all the images that are significant to the company’s history. Very well done.
-Richard Lentinello