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Auto Biography A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream

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ISBN-10: 0062282662

ISBN-13: 9780062282668

Edition: 2014

Authors: Earl Swift

List price: $26.99
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A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift’s wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw-genius auto mechanic as he painstakingly attempts to restores a classic 1957 Chevy to its former glory—all while the FBI and local law enforcement close in.To Tommy Arney, the old cars at Moyock Muscle are archeological artifacts, twentieth-century fossils that represent a place and a people utterly devoted to the automobile and transformed by it. But to his rural North Carolina town, they’re not history; they’re junk. When Tommy acquires a rusted out wreck of an old Chevy and promises to return it to a shiny, chromed work of American art, he sees one…    
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Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Earl Swift lives in Norfolk with his daughter, Saylor.