The Big Book of Car Culture: The Armchair Guide to Automotive Americana
  For readers who love cars and the open road, here's the ultimate armchair compendium to automotive Americana—a fun-to-read collection whose subjects range from the old classics to less frequently covered gems.
Illustrated with hundreds of photos, period ads, postcards, gas station giveaways, and more, this whimsical collection of nearly 150 roadside icons features all the old chestnuts—including diners, drive-in restaurants and movie theaters, service stations, Route 66, and tail fins—as well as off-beat and less obvious, but no less fascinating, chapters of roadside America, such as the Weinermobile, AMC Gremlin, breathalyzer, and even Earl Scheib, who built an empire based on $99 paint jobs.
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