Dream Car

Malcolm Bricklin's Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity

AvDimitry Anastakis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the history of the auto industry’s birth, decline, and rebirth.Written as an "open road," the book invites readers to travel a narrative arc that unfolds chronologically and thematically. Dream Car’s seven chapters have been structured so that they can be read in any order, determined by whichever theme each reader finds most interesting. The book also includes a musical playlist of car songs from the era and songs about the SV1 itself.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-05
Mått:178 x 246 x 30 mm
Vikt:850 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:488
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487555825

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Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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PrefacePlaylistPrologue: On Stage, the Four Seasons Restaurant, New York City, June 25, 1974: Malcolm Bricklin, Ritchard Hatfield, and Their Fantastic CarIntroduction: Industrial Modernity, Bricklin, and Industrial Postmodernity, 1890s–1974–2020s1. The Future (Technology)2. Entrepreneur (Archetype)3. Risk (Safety)4. Showman (Politician)5. Sex (Gender)6. Business (The State)7. Demise (Rebirth)Conclusion: Malcolm Bricklin and His SV1: From Industrial Modernity to Industrial PostmodernityEpilogue: Tesla Factory, Fremont, California, August 2018 – Elon Musk, the Model 3, and "Production Hell"AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotes about SourcesNotesBibliography List of Illustrations and CreditsIndex