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The Gold-Plated Porsche: How I Sank a Small Fortune into a Used
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Stan
Bardzo dobry: Książka była czytana i nie wygląda jak nowa, ale jest nadal w doskonałym stanie. ...
Title
The Gold-Plated Porsche: How I Sank a Small Fortune into a Used
ISBN
9781592282562
Publication Year
2004
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Gold Plated Porsche : How I Sank a Small Fortune Into a Used Car, and Other Misadventures
Author
Stephan Wilkinson
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Antiques & Collectibles, Transportation, Business & Economics
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry, Automotive / Repair & Maintenance, Personal Memoirs, General, Care & Restoration, Automotive / Antique & Classic
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Product Information

Just as life is often described as a road one takes through the aging process, Wilkinson's experience rebuilding a Porsche is the exit ramp that leads straight into his garage to a world of wires, leather trimmings, and memory pit stops with each turn of the 911 manuscript. Quirky, cool, entertaining, and opinionated, Wilkinson's rebuilding project leads to inspired digressions on his life. Learning about the inner workings of a car is also a lesson in tracing the thought streams of the human mind. While rebuilding his car, Wilkinson waxes eloquent on the history of Porsche, American engineering and culture, personal status, his unfulfilling stint as editor of Car and Driver, his love of flying and all things mechanical, not to mention the integrity of wedding dress silk when it's woven amidst engine pistons. According to Wilkinson, Most of the work that my Porsche required, I was confident I could do myself. Turning nuts and bolts, replacing pieces and parts, disassembling and reassembling, rewiring and renovating were within my basic-competence envelope. Anybody who can overhaul a lawnmower knows how a car engine works.Anybody who can drive a vacuum cleaner or polish shoes can redo a car interior. Anybody who can read a home-wiring diagram can at least begin to fiddle with a car's electrical system. He makes it all sound so easy. Yet, the expensive misadventures he had while rebuilding the German masterpiece were like mirrors of a life experience; the eventual purr of the redone motor felt like a long-awaited jaunt upon a road temporarily closed, and the travelling sure was sweet.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1592282563
ISBN-13
9781592282562
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30225051

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gold Plated Porsche : How I Sank a Small Fortune Into a Used Car, and Other Misadventures
Author
Stephan Wilkinson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry, Automotive / Repair & Maintenance, Personal Memoirs, General, Care & Restoration, Automotive / Antique & Classic
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Antiques & Collectibles, Transportation, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Tl140.W55a3 2004
Reviews
"...elegant writing...makes this book so endearing-the tales are told without ego, Wilkinson is amused by life's inevitable disasters and humiliating blow ups, trotting them out so everyone can laugh. Highly recommended."--Car & Drivermagazine "...fascinating and delightful. He dissects enthusiast car ownership with such clarity and spirited writing that it is refreshing. Brilliantly crafted and a great read no matter what season."--Moremagazine, "Your Porsche book is magic. If on picking this up a reader expects a how-to manual on restoring a Porsche 911, he will be disappointed because all you give him is a how-to manual on life. The clear and colorful way you explain difficult and convoluted mechanical functions is pure John McPhee at his best. Your experiences - with cars, as a merchant seaman, as an EMS driver, building airplanes - come together in this glorious tale. Thank you for sharing it."-- Auto Week, "Wilkinson's spunky and entertaining memoir is a yarn-spinning and wise-cracking romp over the author's many occupations, hobbies, blunders and idiosyncrasies. Although there is a good deal of shop talk and automotive jargon, it is a testament to Wilkinson's writing skills that he can make his description of the unbolting of a transaxle as engaging as his stories about crashing test cars and absconding with the company jet to visit his girlfriend. The author's nerdy enthusiasm and sassy wit will be irresistible to both the technically disinclined and the die-hard gear head."-- Publishers Weekly "...takes the reader on a tour of Wilkinson's life in the driver's seat, all retold at a fast clip and with plenty of pep."--Conde Nast Traveler "...fascinating work. Finding the meaning of life with a Craftsman wrench is the idea behind this book, but that doesn't get across just how entertaining it is. The writing is crisp, the narrative stays lively with a series of deliberate digressions and blended segues, and there's plenty here for everyone. Recommended for all libraries."-- Library Journal "No enthusiast, automotive or aeronautical, should be without a copy."--Flying magazine "With his extensive background as a writer, Wilkinson weaves the story of his fearless and expensive resurretion of a 1983 SC into a series of delightful digressions involving his colorful life as it has unfolded so far. Funny, interesting, and opinionated..."--Porsche Panorma, "...elegant writing...makes this book so endearing-the tales are told without ego, Wilkinson is amused by life's inevitable disasters and humiliating blow ups, trotting them out so everyone can laugh. Highly recommended."-- Car & Driver magazine "...fascinating and delightful. He dissects enthusiast car ownership with such clarity and spirited writing that it is refreshing. Brilliantly crafted and a great read no matter what season."-- More magazine
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-301985
Dewey Decimal
629.222/092 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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