Building & Detailing Scale Model Trucks & Emergency Vehicles

Building & Detailing Scale Model Pickup Trucks

GMC Light-Duty Trucks: An Enthusiast's Reference

GMC Heavy-Duty Trucks 1927-1987

How to Restore Classic Toy Cars, Trucks, Tractors, and Airplanes

Collecting Model Car & Truck Kits

Chevy SSR Panel Van Model Kit

Chevy SSR Trucks

• SSR: An American Original- SSR: An American Original, written by automotive journalist Gary Witzenburg, documents the driving forces behind this incredible vehicle in a handsome, hard-bound book. Enthusiasts are exposed to the "behind the scenes" decisions and wrenching that created the SSR-from the process of incorporating late-1940s Chevrolet pickup design cues to the engineering and logistical challenges experienced on the SSR's fast-track to production. The SSR is the enthusiasts' dream; the book is its authoritative documentation.
• Station Wagon: A Tribute to America's Workaholic on Wheels - Great ! An excellent publication that pays tribute to an American icon - the Station Wagon -- from a positive/historical perspective. Americana at its best. The book is a fine tribute to a lost time in history that the minivan can never hope to achieve.
• Station Wagons - Grab the kids and the picnic basket and load up the wagon for this colorful salute to the great American family hauler. Though the book covers American station wagons ranging from "depot hacks" of the 1920s to today's highly popular SUV's, the emphasis is on those fantastic automobiles that came into their own during the '50s and '60s. Some of the cars featured include beautiful woodys from all manufacturers, the Chevrolet Nomad and Pontiac Safari sport wagons, rare examples from Packard, the Studebaker Wagonaire, and the Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. The wonderful images featured in this nostalgic, one-of-a-kind history include period color photography and print ads, as well as exclusive modern color photos of lovingly restored wagons.
• Hula Dancers & Tiki Gods - Look here for images of grass-skirted hula girls (some more naughty than nice) and, in the last 15 pages or so, those stylized idols known as Tiki gods. The text throughout is breezy and perhaps a little flippant, and, characteristically, most of the objects shown are on the kitschy side. Nonetheless, there is no discounting their popularity. Items shown include everything from postcards, matchbooks, and album covers to furniture, lamps, mugs, jewelry, and tattoos.
• GM Light Duty Trucks- Appealing to both historians and enthusiasts GMC Light Duty Trucks is a chronological overview of the popular General Motors vehicles that have been long considered Pontiac’s trucks. It begins by tracing their roots to the year 1902 and origins as the long-departed Rapid and Reliance brands. The story continues with the pair joining an emergent General Motors and 1912 consolidation as GMC. A discussion of significant early milestones follows: Model 15 of 1914 the first “true” GMC; the role of GMC’s military vehicles during the First World War; and, the impact of General Motors’ acquiring Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company, which it merged with General Motors Truck Company and led to the wide range of GMC light duties when Yellowcab trucks, the Pontiac Delivery and Chevrolet Commercial Bodies were integrated into the evolving GMC line. Next the important middle years are reviewed, highlighting effects of GM’s corporate styling leadership on GMC; the offering expansion of the immediate pre-World War II era that brought several distinctive types to the line-up; the all-new 1939 model light truck engine, cab and bodies; contributions to the Second World War allied military effort; and, the birth of GMC Truck & Coach Division. The major postwar styling and functional redesigns of 1947 and 1955 are covered in detail along with the arrival of civilian 4x4 pickups and, in particular, the ambitious Breakthrough Engineering efforts for 1960, culminating in the V-6 engine program that marked the high tide of GMC uniqueness. The book concludes by summarizing the past three decades when a broadening diversity of added models—sport utilities, diesels, full-size and mini vans, multi-purpose vehicles, and compact and mid-size pickups contributed to a massive growth in customer acceptance.
• Chevrolet Station Wagons: 1946 Through 1966 Photo Archive - This book will become the definitive source on Chevrolet Station Wagons. The photo detail of the wagons is excellent, and the book is a very thorough resource for anyone who loves Chevy Wagons, or who is restoring a car.
• Book Of Tiki - This is the best book on the post-war Tiki culture, although there really isn't much competition. The book's strength is its glut of color photos, which chronicle everything from restaurant and resort architecture to barware, film, and graphic design. The text (on the history - mostly the 1940s through the early 1960s - of Tiki culture and notable Tiki people and places, such as Trader Vic's) is good.