Daydreams In The Wind Collectible Open Sports Cars Of The Sixties [Paperback]

Daydreams in the Wind may be the ultimate fact book for fans of sporting convertibles from the classic 1955-75 era. A few models up through 1990 have been included, specifically depending upon their history within the U.S. market. The direct bloodlines of the models have been followed as appropriate. Some models began well before 1955 and others had barely been born in time to be included. All the cars in the book are legally considered antiques in most states. The extensive bibliography represents a massive degree of referenced data. With over 300 B&W photos with detailed captions and over a hundred tables of figures the eccentric author refers to as charts, you will return to the pages of this book for reference again and again. The familiar historical perspective of the special period sandwiched between World War II and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency by President Nixon has been repeatedly published. Servicemen returned from Europe with excitement inspired by fast motoring in the open air in their spindly MG sports cars-- yada, yada, yada. It all came crashing down, no pun intended, with big, ugly safety bumpers and rotten-egg pooting catalytic converters. Open sports car enthusiasm would not fully return until near the end of the Eighties with the arrival of the reinstated Mustang Convertible and the Mazda Miata. As in the other books in Floyd M. Orr's Nonfiction in a Fictional Style Series, Daydreams in the Wind is an explosion of detailed nostalgia and opinion intended to entertain the reader. Established rules and parameters are stated in the beginning and then stretched and contorted as the story unfolds. Intermediate-sized muscle cars, pony car coupes, and imported sports coupes are not included, even though these are obvious variants of the topless cars in the book. Inclusion of these would have made this volume as large as a big city phone book. Remember those? However, you will find many of the domestic pony hardtops and importll