Art & Inspiration Book: A Century of Automotive Style

In 1996, Michael Lamm and Dave Holls released a book with the above ***le. Lamm is an automotive historian, whose excellent writing often appears in Collectible Automobile magazine and elsewhere, and Dave Holls was a celebrated auto designer whose final job was as the #2 in GM Design under Chuck Jordan.

This book cost $60 when it was released, and despite its price tag it is a great resource for learning about the evolution and history of design in the US auto industry. It also gives an insider's account of some of the workings of the car companies, including the 1930-1965 era that is of the greatest interest to HAMBers.

Not only is the book now out of print, but used bookstores are getting prices around $150 for mint copies of it. Too bad for anyone who'd like to read it, but doesn't own it.

But, AHA! I just discovered on Amazon that it's available in DVD form from the original publishers (Lamm-Morada) for $24.95 -- a genuine bargain. I haven't seen the DVD, but it is allegedly complete with all the text, illustrations, and covers from the original hardcover publication.

I have no connection with these folks, but I highly recommend the book (and, by extension, the DVD) to any serious student of automobile design.

 

Pimpin paint, this is directed at you -- if you don't have this book, you should check it out!

 

Hey Tony,

This book and my copy of "The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile Coachbuilding" will be the ones I grab from my bookshelf when the ''Big One" hits California!

Now if only someone would reprint some of the early Miller books or that one big red one on Carrozzeria Touring, the one that now commands as much as some third world countries GNP figures, I'd die happy!

Thanx,

S****y Devils C.C.
" I like the old millennium better"

 

That is a great book! I love all the prototypes and stylish exercises.
Very inspirational.

 

My copy is signed by Michael Lamm. Nyah nyah.

 

Cool! A discerning segment of HAMBers!

 

Thanks for the TIP! Cars & 'rodding are like fishing, I always say. You just can't EVER know enough! No wonder auto engineering and design are SO addictive!!!