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CUSTOM PICK-UPS COLOR HISTORY
ENTHUSIAST BOOK
ISBN #-
1855322641
**1992
publication by Motorbooks International, hardbound, 8 1/4 x 9 1/4, 128 pages,
loaded with color photographs, NOS- in like-new condition.
Retail Price-
$15.95
Custom
pick-ups are as flamboyant and subtle as
their highly
individualistic owners. Many owners
take pride
in keeping classic models from the
golden age
of the 1940s on the road in a
near
original condition. Others prefer to invest
in an
extravagant display of special paint and
dazzling
chrome.
INTRODUCTION
So
why produce a book about pick-ups at all, let alone custom pick-ups? They re
ugly, dirty, uncomfortable, limited in passenger space, usually knocked-about,
mis-treated, abused and generally undesirable as a means of personal transport.
There s certainly nothing intrinsically glamorous or classy about a pick-up
truck.
Well,
that may be the case in Britain and the rest of Europe, but in the USA the
lowly pick-up is viewed in an entirely different light. Americans, on the
whole, consider this breed of commercial workhorse to be socially acceptable in
a way that Europeans, on the whole, have difficulty coming to terms with.
For
years now Stateside enthusiasts have been fixing-up old trucks to
better-than-new condition and driving them with pride. Even brand new ones,
straight off the showroom floor, are customised -for the very reason that they
are pick-ups. Today it is possible to order a domestic or imported t ...
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