Dream Car
Malcolm Bricklin's Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Toronto Press
- Date of Publication 5 April 2024
- ISBN 9781487555825
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages488 pages
- Size 246x178x30 mm
- Weight 850 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 66 colour illustrations, 54 b&w illustrations 551
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Long description:
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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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Preface
Playlist
Prologue: On Stage, the Four Seasons Restaurant, New York City, June 25, 1974: Malcolm Bricklin, Ritchard Hatfield, and Their Fantastic Car
Introduction: Industrial Modernity, Bricklin, and Industrial Postmodernity, 1890s–1974–2020s
1. 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 Postmodernity
Epilogue: Tesla Factory, Fremont, California, August 2018 – Elon Musk, the Model 3, and ""Production Hell""
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes about Sources
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations and Credits
Index
