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Author name: William Krause

 : Hollywood TV and Movie Cars
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN num: 9780760307557
ISBN number: 0760307555
Label: Motorbooks
Manufacturer: Motorbooks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 128
Printing Date: August 01, 2001
Publishing house: Motorbooks
Sale Popularity Level: 533425
Studio: Motorbooks




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Product Description:
This fun-filled history looks back at some of the most memorable and remarkable cars and motorcycles ever committed to celluloid. Colour photography, nostalgic movie stills, and an equally entertaining text examine the Tinseltown careers of photogenic vehicles.



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User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Great book!
This book is great for fans of TV and Movie Cars. They go into everything from the James Bond Aston Martin DB5 to KITT from Knight Rider. If I have one criticism it would be that it doesn't include the famous George Barris cars, such as the 1966 TV Batmobile, Monkee Mobile, Munster cars, etc.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - A good collection of some famous cars.
A reasonable book on various tv/movie cars shown in decent colour and B&W photos.Informative enough to please most people.Cars like the "Dukes of hazard" Dodge chargers,"Green hornet",cars from various "James Bond" movies and so on.If you want to know more about these cars this book is ideal.The only thing was not enough cars and a bit light on for information.



Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Nice start...but please, more details
Hollywood TV and Movie Cars tries to take the wraps off of some of the unsung stars of film and television...the cars that transported, tormented, and drove the heroes of film.
Thankfully, it doesn't spend a lot of time on cars that have already had their moment of printed glory...namely the Batmobile, Munster's Coach and other creations of Hollywood's "Kustom King" George Barris (see the book "Barris TV and Movie Cars").
Insteda the book gives you the rundown (no pun intended on some other stars...the James Bond cars, the race cars of the Great Race, LeMans, and Grand Prix, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, along with TV cars like the Monkeemobile, Then Came Bronson's Harley, Starsky and Hutch's Torino, and for the very first time anywhere...a personal favorite...the George Barris' 1914 Stutz Bearcat replicas built for the forgotten series "Bearcats!".
But some of the research seems superficial...the info on Bronson's bike came straight from a web site, and the Bond Cars and Chitty Chitty...don't go into a lot of detail about the number of cars made or their eventual fate. In the case of a couple of cars, the information is either incomplete (the fact Magnum drove two different Ferrarri's...when one was destroyed by a bomb, it gave the producers and the Italian car company a chance to upgrade the PI to the latest model) or just plain wrong (the number of Black Beautys).
Also, too many photos come from old archieves..it would have
been nice to see more of thesurviving cars as they appear today...something that was done for the Bearcat, Torino, and the Green Hornet's Black Beauty.
Given space limitations, some cars were left out.. or mentioned only in an afterwood to each chapter that says what cars were used in a partcular project..some of those cars could have perhaps been included some of the stars got a bit less space..do we really need a 2 page B&W publicity shot of the Green Hiornet's car or two virtualy identical photos of Bronson on his bike?
I don't mean to be too picky, but this book could have really been something with a bit more work (and luck finding some of the admittedly hard to find cars).
Let's hope for an expanded and revised second edition.



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