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Informationen zum Autor Peter Vincent discovered photography by purchasing a Popular Photography Annual in the mid-1960s that included Adams! Weston! White! Steiglitz! Strand! and many more. He knew at that moment that he would do photographic work professionally! and he went on to take workshops with Ansel Adams! Brett Weston! Morley Baer and others. But Vincent also grew up as a gearhead! buying his first car at 15 and learning how to fix! customize! and personalize automobiles. His love for visual work! minimalism! and transportation has found its way into Motorbooks titles Hot Rod Garages (2009) and Dream Garages (2006). Official Website: www.petervincentphotographer.com Klappentext In Hot Rod Garages! acclaimed hot rod photographer Peter Vincent takes readers inside the shops and garages of more than two dozen of the United States' most renowned rod and custom builders. "For those of you who like to get your 90-weight-coated paws on some car-themed reading material, we're continuing with this book-review thing. Today we're checking out a weighty slab of a coffee-table book. "Hot Rod Garages" poses something of a dilemma for the intended audience, because it really ought to live in the garage, where you can thumb through it while digging deep for motivation to work on that rusty '61 DKW Munga Hell Project... but you'd feel a twinge of guilt the first time you dropped a torque converter on its snazzy three-dimensional cover (the windows in the cover's garage illustration are actual holes cut through the cover, an effect that doesn't show up so well in photographs but is pretty cool in person). The concept behind the book is quite simple: Vincent visited the garages and workshops of 18 builders of vehicles that fall within the hot rod and/or custom tradition and documented what he found. Some are big names and some aren't; all create some pretty serious machinery, and their shops range from primitive to palatial. I cracked open this book hoping to see hundreds of obsessive closeups of battered tools and weird engine parts on scarred workbenches, which wasn't what I found; most of the photographs show entire cars, many of which aren't parked in the garages in which they were created. That's not really a problem, however, because plenty of the non-garage photos were shot on the Bonneville salt flats and just about all the cars are serious gearhead pr0n.You get a generous helping of text for a coffee-table book, including interviews of car builders and the author's reminisces of his experiences with them. Best of all is the fascinating history of the Moal family's operations in East Oakland, written by Michael Dobrin, and the extensively documented buildup- practically a how-to guide- of the Rolling Bones' George Poteet '34 coupe.The verdict: a Three Rod Jalopnik book rating. An enjoyable book for the average car geek, a big improvement Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword By Phil Linhares Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Roy Brizio Chapter 2 Cole Foster Chapter 3 Pat Foster Chapter 4 Cam Grant Chapter 5 John Gunsaulis Chapter 6 Gary Harms Chapter 7 Ron Jolliffe Chapter 8 “The L.A. Group” Pete Eastwood Terry Hegman Don Small Cal Tanaka Billy Vinther Chapter 9 Bob Lick Chapter 10 Steve Moal Chapter 11 Dick Page Chapter 12 The Rolling Bones Chapter 13 Vern & Keith Tardel Chapter 14 Dale Withers Index ...
