The author tells Arney’s story deftly and with great, often raw, humor, and it rarely loses momentum. The tale of the ’57 Chevy’s passage from owner to owner until purchased (and laboriously prepared to be sold) by Arney is fittingly contextualized withi
The author tells Arney’s story deftly and with great, often raw, humor, and it rarely loses momentum. The tale of the ’57 Chevy’s passage from owner to owner until purchased (and laboriously prepared to be sold) by Arney is fittingly contextualized within the central place of the automobile (in particular, this automobile, a classic) in American culture. --Mark Levine . In addition to owning a North Carolina strip club, Arney runs an auto-junkyard-cum-used-car-lot (neither is quite an adequate description). When not in major legal or financial difficulty, Arney—an informally educated, erratic, but remarkably well-informed individual, articulate both in profane and more standard English—and his remarkable crew perform herculean work (meticulously described here) in restoring automobiles. From Booklist This is a fascinating dual biography of Tommy Arney—described as a rough customer, which is putting it mildly—and of a 1957 Chevrolet which is in Arney’s possession when the book opensOver 95% percent of this book consists of uninformative interviews with architects, with beyond simple advice as to starting the career path. If you ask me, this is probably one of the most thorough single collection of these materials in the most pedestrian fashion. Even if you aren't an expert at sewing, the sections on sewing basics, free motion stitching and a quick education on presser feet will get you started right away. It also features half-size slopers to work with in the back of the book.I would give it four and a half stars if I could. If you are a motorhead, gearhead, or interested in Virginia modern history, this book is great. This is a must have because it show s you a ton info on how to really baseline your systems performance great,great book.. Was thinking about going for degree; this gave me some direction to work with.. In each chapter the authors identify the set of tools most apt for each operational scenario and provide enough motivation for the network administrator / manager such that you can easily start with tools you may already own.Of course the book is from Cisco press and written by Cisco engineers, so the tools described, their operations, the various devices and the commands are all Cisco based. It is very well done. The author chose to go broad to introduce his audience to a wide range of possibilities, rather than go very deep on any of them, but there is enough info to make it work, and references to go deeper.A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him.Slumped among hundreds of other decrepit hulks on a treeless, windswept moor in eastern North Carolina, the Chevy evokes none of the Jet Age mystique that made it the most beloved car to ever roll off an assembly line. Officials of the surrounding county consider it junk.To Tommy Arney, it's anything but: It's a fossil of the twentieth-century American experience, of a place and a people utterly devoted to the automobile and changed by it in myriad ways. It's a piece of history—especially so because its flaking skin conceals a rare asset: a complete provenance, stretching back more than fifty years.So, hassled by a growing assortment of challengers, the Chevy's thirteenth owner—an orphan, grade-school dropout and rounder, a felon arrested seventy-odd times, and a man who's been written off as a ruin himself--embarks on a mission to save the car and preserve long record of human experience it carries in its steel and upholstery.Written for both gearheads and Sunday drivers, Auto Biography charts the shifting natu
- Title : Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream
- Author : Earl Swift
- Rating : 4.50 (647 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-5-1
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 368 Pages
- Asin : 0062282662
- Language : English
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