Roadside Relics: America's Abandoned Automobiles | 
 enlarge | Author: Will Shiers
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 148570
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0760327483
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.96292220973
EAN: 9780760327487
ASIN: 0760327483
Publication Date: November 15, 2006
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Condition: Good Condition, delivery time 10 to 12 Working days, via Priority airmail from UK
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Product Description
Abandoned junk to some, the rusty old steel shells of vehicles are treasures to others, holding memories of a bygone era, or the promise of a pristinely restored, radically customized automobile. Automotive photographer Will Shiers has captured these dreams on film for over ten years, and this volume collects his images between two covers for the first time. Here are the beautiful husks Shiers has found in the United States fields and barns, shops, and salvage yards across States. Divided into five categories—General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Independents, and Special Vehicles—these wrecks and relics from 1910 to the 1970s come equipped with all the relevant information: history, model, location. And because few salvage yards today keep anything older than a 1980 vintage, many of these cars have been lost to the metal crusher. The most comprehensive and beautifully photographed collection of abandoned cars ever published, this volume preserves for all time the exquisite skeletons of American automotive might.
Book Description
Here are the beautiful husks of American autos photographed over a decade by Will Shiers in barns and salvage yards across 49 states. Divided into five categories—General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Independents, and Special Vehicles—these wrecked relics from 1910 to the 1970s come equipped with all the relevant information: history, model, location. And sadly, because few salvage yards today keep anything older than a 1980 vintage, many of these cars have been lost to the metal crusher—and may be seen here for the very last time.
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Holey Rusticating Rusters , we have Quality here ! October 13, 2008
Good Golly - Roadside Relics and the 2008 calendar of the same name are just fantastic!
Nearmost every page in this book is filled with glossy full colour photographs of automobiles rusticating ( and rusting) peacefully in out of the way locales.
Although left to the elements , a few of these vehicles still look quite dignified in their resting places. A good example of this is the 1949 Buick Super four-door sedan resting at Navajo Twin Rocks.
Dang, those late forties - early fifties Buick were works of art!
If not too many people in the U.S. desire to restore some of these once-upon-a-time common place cars, there will be those outside the 50 States who would be more than keen to do so (if they have the time and money!)
When we folks living outside of North America were still driving 'stick-shift', and using the 'Armstrong Crank-o-wynder System' (TM) to get fresh air into our vehicles, Americans had fine forty or fifty year old examples of fully optioned autos in their junkyards. And wow, what options! Shift-o-matic transmission! A/C! Electrical upperdy-downey side-glass! And all that Chrome! (Somehow I can't see all that plastic used in modern cars looking as good with half as much exposure to the elements).
Cars from the Big Three and the smaller independents are pictured within. This book exceeded my expectations, real quality here.
Great book December 23, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bought this as a gift for husband, and he absolutely loved it! He looks through it all the time, even wants me to order more books about abandoned or wrecked cars. He is a car enthusiast to the fullest, and I recommend this book.
Rusted Relics Live January 18, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Beautiful images of burnt out, rusted, and
dead classic cars, trucks and vehicle parts,
dressed in weeds, grass and mud...lovely.
Not so much in your neighborhood, but they
make fabulous images in their abandoned settings.
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