Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust write by David N. Lucsko. This book was released on 2016-05-15. Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The material appeal of the automobile junkyard goes beyond the search for second-hand parts. What happens to automobiles after they are retired but before they are processed as scrap? In this fascinating history, David N. Lucsko takes readers on a tour of salvage yards and wrecked or otherwise out-of-service cars in the United States from the point of view of gearheads—the hot rodders, restoration hobbyists, street rodders, and classic car devotees who reuse, repurpose, and restore junked cars. Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust is a nuanced exploration of the business of dismantling wrecks and selling second-hand parts. It examines the reinterpretation of these cars and parts by artists as well as their restoration by enthusiasts. It also surveys the origin and evolution of gearhead-oriented yards that specialize in specific types of automobiles; dissects the material and emotional appeal of the salvage yard and its contents among enthusiasts; and examines how zoning and nuisance ordinances have affected both salvage businesses and hobbyists. Lucsko concludes with an analysis of efforts during the last twenty-five years to hasten vehicular obsolescence at the expense of salvage yards, mechanics, and enthusiasts. By examining how cars are salvaged, repurposed, and restored, this book demonstrates that the history of the automobile is much more than a running catalog of showroom novelties.
Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust
Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust write by David N. Lucsko. This book was released on 2016-05-15. Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The automotive salvage business in America, 1900-2010 : an overview -- Parts, parts cars, and car enthusiasts : the art and practice of direct recycling -- "Arizona gold" : enthusiast-specialty salvage yards, 1920s-2000s -- "Junkyard jamboree" : hunting for treasure in the automotive past, 1950-2010 -- Not in my neighbor's backyard, either : junkyards, gearheads, and zoning and eyesore ordinances, 1965-2010 -- Of clunkers and Camaros : policymakers, enthusiasts, and old-car scrappage, 1990-2009 -- Something old, something new
The Persistence of Technology
The Persistence of Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persistence of Technology write by Stefan Krebs. This book was released on 2021-09-30. The Persistence of Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, decisions have to be taken: is it necessary, worthwhile or even possible to maintain and repair, reuse or dismantle them - or must they be discarded? These decisions depend on factors such as the availability of second-hand markets, repair infrastructures and dismantling or disposal facilities. In telling the stories of China's power grid, Canadian telephones, German automobiles and India's shipbreaking business, among others, the contributions in this volume highlight the persistence of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries and consumer societies.
Junkyard Jewels
Junkyard Jewels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Junkyard Jewels write by Pat Kytola. This book was released on 2002-02. Junkyard Jewels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rolling Midwest countryside is dotted with small junkyards heaped with curious, rusting hulks that have been long-forgotten. This fascinating and fun softbound edition of Diamonds in the Rust: American Junkyard Jewels (0-87938-368-2) features photos of once glorious automobiles and trucks gracing America's junkyards. Nature artfully combines with steel and rust to create a beauty only time can reveal.
The Moulton Bicycle
The Moulton Bicycle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moulton Bicycle write by Bruce D. Epperson. This book was released on 2018-05-21. The Moulton Bicycle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1963, British inventor Alex Moulton (1920-2012) introduced an innovative compact bicycle. Architectural Review editor Reyner Banham (1922-1988) predicted it would give rise to "a new class of cyclists," young urbanites riding by choice, not necessity. Forced to sell his firm in 1967, Moulton returned in the 1980s with an even more radical model, the AM--his acclaim among technology and design historians owed much to Banham's writings. The AM's price tag (some models cost many thousands of dollars) has inspired tech-savvy cyclists to create "hot rod" compact bikes from Moulton-inspired "shopper" cycles of the 1970s--a trend also foreseen by Banham, who considered hot rod culture the "folk art of the mechanical era." The author traces the intertwined lives of two unusually creative men who had an extraordinary impact on each others' careers, despite having met only a few times.
