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Discovering Lost Automobiles and their Stories

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The title was retired before I could read it, but it is about found vehicles and their stories. The cars were found rusting in barns, the bottom of a lake, and other absurd places as in the one found on the top floor of a high rise. The photos are beautiful and I recommend it to any car enthusiast.

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What a phenomenal book. So many interesting stories. Can't wait for it to come out on hardcover, so I can present it to my husband who collects vintage cars.

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Having completed my read of "Discovering Lost Automobiles and their Stories," by Michael Ware (provided to me in the form of an ARC from the publisher, Pen and Sword), I can report that this slim volume is essentially an anecdotal collection of stories about finding old cars (principally, but not exclusively, European in origin). It is a sort of European equivalent of the Barn Find books so prominent in the literature in the United States. The author is thoroughly familiar with his subject matter, and that is a very good thing as many, if not most of the automobiles which appear in the book are fairly obscure to American readers. If you enjoy these kind of things, this will expand your understanding of how so many cars have been discovered in various states of decay or restoration.
If you are looking for a coherent and tightly unified narrative structure, this is not the book for you. Its value is clearly as a sort of reference book focusing tightly on its subject matter. I would not recommend it to general audiences, but to those fascinated with the subject, it is undoubtedly useful.

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