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Motor City Dream Cruise

Author : David R. Degregory
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500306922
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Dream Cruise written by David R. Degregory and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were car guys and they were getting old. Johnny, Cecil, Mike, Tommy, Kyle and Greg; friends since high school; men in their mid-sixties; more than any other signifier they could imagine, they were car guys. Their garages are filled with shrines of pristine pistons and finely polished chrome. Aged autos far from dinosaurs, they were without flaw, cared for meticulously like the children of first-time parents, and loved unconditionally, even when a distributor cap wouldn't budge. They were bragged about and they were touched up regularly. Their owners, though, unlike the cars, were undoubtedly falling apart. Whether it was blood pressure, cholesterol, hips needing replacement or little blue pills hidden in coat pockets, their bodies were beginning to require more attention than their cars. Despite their aging bodies, it was time for the Dream Cruise, the once a year Detroit event for guys to show off their cars, get into a little bit of trouble and, more importantly than anything else, bond with their friends, and the guys were undoubtedly ready.

Motor City Dream Garages

Author : Don Sherman, Rex Roy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610590907
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Dream Garages written by Don Sherman, Rex Roy and published by . This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There isn't another place in the world that can match Detroit's automotive history. For nearly a century, what was conceived, designed, produced, and marketed from this town ruled the roads. So it only stands to reason that the Motor City is likely to host some of the country's greatest collector garages. From the personal home of the man who put America on wheels to the posh residences of current automotive icons such as Bob Lutz, Motor City Dream Garages takes readers on a guided tour of 20-plus of Motown's most interesting garages. Going beyond even these fantastic garagemahals, this book also takes readers inside select company garages for exclusive looks at the unique and important collections amassed by companies such as General Motors and Roush Industries (parent company to Roush Racing, owned by Jack Roush). If you like both garages and the beautiful machines within, this book is for you!

Scream Cruise

Author : Jim Delorey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980046120
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Scream Cruise written by Jim Delorey and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every August a million people converge on Detroit's Woodward Avenue for the annual Dream Cruise - when over 40,000 hot rods, muscle cars, sports cars and classic autos go rumbling up and down a miles-long stretch of steamy asphalt. But as this year's Dream Cruise approaches, a cloud of gut-wrenching terror hangs over the Motor City. A crazed bomber inflicts a series of horrific explosions that claim hundreds of innocent lives. He then demands a multi-million dollar payoff to stop the carnage - or else. With the body count rising almost by the hour, FBI agent McCoy Johnson finds himself in several wild, heart-stopping races against the clock to halt the killings. But with time running out, can he prevent the evil, Detroit-hating psychopath from turning the Dream Cruise into a holocaust of wanton slaughter?

Off Camera Affair 1 (the Motor City Drama Series)

Author : Jazz Jordan
Publisher : Platinum Life Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1496022343
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Off Camera Affair 1 (the Motor City Drama Series) written by Jazz Jordan and published by Platinum Life Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kai Lewis is a TV reporter with the inside scoop on Detroit's juiciest corruption scandals. Years ago, her affair with Frank Anderson, the very handsome but very married lead news anchor, had taken her body, soul, and career to new heights. But Kai's thrill ride with Frank ended in an unspeakable tragedy. Now, she avoids his advances, despite the deep feelings for him that still undeniably linger within her. Anxious to move on, Kai initiates a summer fling with Deandre Grant, a sexy NBA player with mind-blowing bedroom skills. Soon, Kai finds herself hungering for more than a casual relationship, and she's overjoyed when Deandre confesses that he feels the same way. Unfortunately, their beautiful beginning is tainted when their relationship hits two major roadblocks: Kai's sister, LaNaya, a video vixen and exotic dancer, who gets caught up in a sexy webcam operation with dangerous consequences just as Kai is trying to sort out her own love life; and Janice, Deandre's deranged baby-mama. On a business trip to Atlanta, Kai discovers something about Frank, her former flame, that changes her perspective on the past. Will this new information open the door for reconciliation with him, or will she go all the way with Deandre? Kai reports the news every day, but there is much more drama off the air, when it comes to her own life. This novel is a tale of fate, desire and the unexpected.

Joyride

Author : Detroit Free Press Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Joyride written by Detroit Free Press Staff and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a photographic celebration of the Woodward Dream Cruise, which began in 1995 as a modest fund-raiser for a children's soccer field and now attracts nearly 2 million auto fans from around the world every year. The book is full-color throughout.

Cultures of the City

Author : Richard Young
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082297763X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of the City written by Richard Young and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad spectrum of phenomena and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume analyze lived urban experiences and their symbolic representation in cultural texts. Individual chapters explore Havana in popular music; Mexico City in art; Buenos Aires, Recife, and Salvador in film; and Asuncion and Buenos Aires in literature. Others focus on particular events, conditions, and practices of urban life including the Havana book fair, mass transit in Bogota, the restaurant industry in Los Angeles, the media in Detroit, Andean festivals in Lima, and the photographic record of a visit by members of the Zapatista Liberation Army to Mexico City. The contributors examine identity and the sense of place and belonging that connect people to urban environments, relating these to considerations of ethnicity, social and economic class, gender, everyday life, and cultural practices. They also consider history and memory and the making of places through the iterative performance of social practices. As such, places are works in progress, a condition that is particularly evident in contemporary Latin/o American cities where the opposition between local and global influences is a prominent facet of daily life. These core issues are theorized further in an afterword by Abril Trigo, who takes the chapters as a point of departure for a discussion of the dialectics of identity in the Latin/o American global city.

Motor City Barn Finds

Author : Tom Cotter
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 076035796X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Barn Finds written by Tom Cotter and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Cotter returns to troll through Detroit and discover long forgotten classics in Motor City Barn Finds. You won't believe some of the rides he finds. Detroit has been America's Motor City for decades. It's home to Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, as well as numerous auto industry companies and specialty and speed shops. At the same time, it's the poster child for urban blight and dysfunction. It's truly a city of contrasts, which presented challenges and opportunities in equal measure to barn finder Tom Cotter. In Motor City Barn Finds, Cotter plies his trade in a locale rich with automotive history. Detroit's lost cars are abandoned in empty lots, resident in decrepit buildings, squirreled away in garages, and stashed in historic wrecking yards. Behind the wheel of his classic 1939 Ford Woodie, Cotter trolls the back streets and neighborhoods of this historic city looking for lost automotive gems accompanied by photographer Michael Alan Ross. As America's Motor City, Detroit is an emotional and historical mecca for car enthusiasts, capable of drawing hundreds of thousands of car people for events like Woodward Dream Cruise and attracting design-forward companies like Shinola. At the same time, it's intimidating to navigate, with numerous dodgy neighborhoods and risky abandoned factory sites. Add it all together and you have fascinating and intriguing opportunities to dig for barn-find gold.

Off Camera Affair 4 (The Motor City Drama Series)

Author : Jazz Jordan
Publisher : Platinum Life Publishing
ISBN 13 : 150105905X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Off Camera Affair 4 (The Motor City Drama Series) written by Jazz Jordan and published by Platinum Life Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kai takes a trip to Costa Rica with Santiago to attend his sister’s wedding, she can’t help but fantasize about her own happily-ever-after, but her excursion in paradise is interrupted by someone from Santiago’s past, someone who makes Kai question the man she longs to open her heart to. Is Santiago worthy of her love, or is he harboring a destructive secret? Back in Detroit, at the Channel 5 news desk, Kai is excited to hold the coveted spot as lead anchor. The fact that she is filling in for her trifling ex, Frank, definitely doesn’t diminish her resolve to advance her career. Unfortunately, someone at the TV station has a sinister plan. For Kai Lewis, danger is never too far away. Meanwhile, Kai is invited to interview for the job of a lifetime. As badly as she wants to seize the opportunity, she is reluctant to leave her family and the love of her life behind to move across the country. While she struggles with the difficult decision, a trial gets underway to decide the fate of her nemesis, Tisha. Despite Tisha’s laundry list of dirty deeds, her clever defense attorney has concocted a brilliant strategy, and Kai is concerned that the jury will acquit her instead of throwing her salty behind under the jail where she belongs. After the unnerving and shocking display of that lawyer’s slick courtroom antics, Kai finds herself confronted by her second nemesis, Madison, in the most disrespectful way. Kai’s life as a single mother and her work schedule allow her limited free time to spend with her man, but she tries her best to make every minute count, and her fantasies of a brighter future bring a smile to her face. With the love and support of her family, Kai feels nothing can stop her. But just as she’s on the verge of realizing a dream-come-true, she makes a devastating mistake that could cost her everything. Can Kai and her sister, LaNaya, undo the damage before it’s too late? Kai has already endured years of unspeakable drama from outsiders, but this time, she is responsible for a situation that could be the cause of her own downfall. In this final installment of The Motor City Drama Series, sex, witness testimony, and videotape distort reality.

Motor City Barn Finds

Author : Tom Cotter
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760352445
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Barn Finds written by Tom Cotter and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit: Motor City... and the poster child for urban blight and dysfunction. This presented challenges and opportunities for Cotter, as he trolled the historic city looking for lost automobile gems. Here he tells the story of these "barn finds" and shares anecdotes of the cars and his journey.

A Motor City Year

Author : John Sobczak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814334102
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book A Motor City Year written by John Sobczak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first section, Sobczak follows people and places across the Detroit area coming back to life after a long winter, including rowers on the Detroit River, dancers at a high school prom, neighborhood basketball players in Detroit, and visitors to Domino's Petting Farm. Summer images include all of the major festivals-like GM River Days, Comerica City Fest, the Ann Arbor Art Fair, the Detroit International Jazz Festival, and Arts, Beats, and Eats-as well as more obscure events like the Michigan Elvisfest and Hines Park's Mud Days. Photographs in the fall and winter sections show communities and individuals living, working, and celebrating in the colder months, with traditions like the annual Michigan-Michigan State football game, the Hob Nobble Gobble, and ice skating at Campus Martius Park.

Woodward Avenue

Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Cartech
ISBN 13 : 9781932494914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Woodward Avenue written by Robert Genat and published by Cartech. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodward Avenue: Cruising the Legendary Strip is filled with stories from the people who cruised and raced Woodward in the wonderful era of the 50s and 60s. Featured are the clandestine and not so clandestine efforts by the factories to build cars that the Woodward crowd would buy and race. Woodward Avenue includes everything that surrounded Woodwards action including Detroits legendary DJs who provided the cruisers musical soundtrack, the hang-outs and drive-ins, the high-performance new car dealerships that provided the cars, and the legendary speed shops that provided the hot rod parts.

Internal Combustion

Author : Joyce Maynard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470223561
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Internal Combustion written by Joyce Maynard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the 2004 hatchet killing of Bob Seaman, an auto industry engineer and softball coach, describing the arrest of his wife of more than thirty years, as well as the contradictory testimonies of their two sons.

Michigan Day Trips by Theme

Author : Kathryn Houghton
Publisher : Adventure Publications
ISBN 13 : 1591939763
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Michigan Day Trips by Theme written by Kathryn Houghton and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Michigan with the guide to more than 275 of the best destinations, organized by theme so you can decide what to do and then find where to do it. Discover a multitude of unique attractions throughout the Great Lake State. This comprehensive guide is jam-packed with Michigan’s top spots for fun and entertainment. Take a simple day trip, or string together a longer vacation of activities that appeal to you. Useful for singles, couples, and families—visitors and residents alike—this guide by Kathryn Houghton encompasses a wide range of interests. Features You’ll Appreciate Sections divided by theme for easy reference—decide what to do, then figure out where to do it Destinations based on themes such as Festivals, Lighthouses, Science Museums & Nature Centers, and Sports Tips for other things to do in the area Handy size that’s perfect for traveling You’ll Find Beaches, dunes, and waterfalls Breathtaking settings for bird watchers and nature lovers Island destinations, ships, and shipwrecks With Michigan Day Trips by Theme at your fingertips, you’ll always have something to do!

Driving Detroit

Author : George Galster
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812222954
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Driving Detroit written by George Galster and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, Detroit was a symbol of American industrial might, a place of entrepreneurial and technical ingenuity where the latest consumer inventions were made available to everyone through the genius of mass production. Today, Detroit is better known for its dwindling population, moribund automobile industry, and alarmingly high murder rate. In Driving Detroit, author George Galster, a fifth-generation Detroiter and internationally known urbanist, sets out to understand how the city has come to represent both the best and worst of what cities can be, all within the span of a half century. Galster invites the reader to travel with him along the streets and into the soul of this place to grasp fully what drives the Motor City. With a scholar's rigor and a local's perspective, Galster uncovers why metropolitan Detroit's cultural, commercial, and built landscape has been so radically transformed. He shows how geography, local government structure, and social forces created a housing development system that produced sprawl at the fringe and abandonment at the core. Galster argues that this system, in tandem with the region's automotive economic base, has chronically frustrated the population's quest for basic physical, social, and psychological resources. These frustrations, in turn, generated numerous adaptations—distrust, scapegoating, identity politics, segregation, unionization, and jurisdictional fragmentation—that collectively leave Detroit in an uncompetitive and unsustainable position. Partly a self-portrait, in which Detroiters paint their own stories through songs, poems, and oral histories, Driving Detroit offers an intimate, insightful, and perhaps controversial explanation for the stunning contrasts—poverty and plenty, decay and splendor, despair and resilience—that characterize the once mighty city.

The Last Open Road

Author : Bert Levy
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312186241
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Last Open Road written by Bert Levy and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year out of high school in the early 1950s, New Jersey mechanic Buddy Palumbo falls in love with two things at once: race car driving with its speed and adventure, and his boss' niece, Miss Julie Finzio

Explorer's Guide Detroit & Ann Arbor: A Great Destination

Author : Jeff Counts
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 158157844X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide Detroit & Ann Arbor: A Great Destination written by Jeff Counts and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Counts gets behind the wheel to take us cruising the eclectic neighborhoods that comprise the “culture stew” that is Motor City—Detroit. There’s great ethnic cuisine, extraordinary pre-war architecture, world-class museums, and a homegrown soundtrack, from Motown’s rhythm and blues to the undeniable pulse of rap. Distinctive for their accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the diverse travel guides in our Explorer's Great Destinations series meet the conflicting demands of the modern traveler. They're packed full of up-to-date information to help plan the perfect getaway. And they're compact and light enough to come along for the ride. A tool you'll turn to before, during, and after your trip, these guides include chapters on lodging, dining, transportation, history, shopping, recreation, and more; a section packed with practical information, such as lists of banks, hospitals, post offices, laundromats, numbers for police, fire, and rescue, and other relevant information; maps of regions and locales, and more.

Backroads & Byways of Michigan: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions (Backroads & Byways)

Author : Matt Forster
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 0881508314
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Backroads & Byways of Michigan: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions (Backroads & Byways) written by Matt Forster and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the usual tourist destinations, this book has twelve researched routes that include some of the state's lesser known attractions--crystalline waters, unspoiled nature, and natural wonders--and highlights colorful characters and interesting historical details.