Recommended Reading ? Crestline books | Hemmings Blog ...

For serious automotive enthusiasts, historians and journalists, the most important books ever published are those known as the Crestline books. Each volume is the most thoroughly assembled automotive book ever published, showcasing just about every single model car, in every single body style, from every single year that was produced by a particular auto manufacturer. A truly exhausting compilation that will most probably never be surpassed.

Every single model car listed is illustrated with a black-and-white photograph so you can see exactly what its body style looks like, many of which were provided by the car manufacturers themselves. Although every Crestline book in this series was printed in black-and-white, it?s the information that counts that makes these books so sought after, and so highly prized by enthusiasts and collectors today. No lavish productions or fancy layouts. Just a basic photograph of every model car, which is accompanied with an informative paragraph-size caption that includes nothing but hardcore information and facts.

Each book is hardcover, runs several hundred pages in length, is 9-1/2 x 11 inches in size, comes jam packed with several thousand photographs, and features a metallic color embossed printing on its cover. They were written by a select group of highly respected authors who were recognized as experts for those marques that they wrote about, so you know the information is factually correct.

These books were published from the early 1970s through to the early 1990s, and none, we believe, were ever reproduced. A single print run for each is one of the reasons why each Crestline book is fairly hard to find to today; some more so than others.? Thus values vary ? from $20 to $400, depending on the book?s title. Only American car companies were profiled, and included: Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg, Buick, Cadillac-La Salle, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Hudson, Oldsmobile, Packard, Plymouth & De Soto, Pontiac-Oakland, Studebaker, Woodies & Wagons, International Harvester, American Funeral Cars & Ambulances, American Fire Engines, Steam Tractors & Engines, American Cars 1930-1942, American Cars 1946-1959, American Gas Engines, and U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles.

While colorful coffee table-type books are nice to look at, they only feature a select few car models. But for the complete story on the above mentioned car brands, one that will allow you to see every single car model and every single body style produced, only the Crestline books will do.

Source: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/09/14/recommended-reading-crestline-books/

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