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Highways of the Future: Disney's 1958 Magic Highways
Electric Cars -Will they take off? BBC report
GM's Car of the Future the Hy Wire on Top Gear.

The Dozen Most Important Cars of All Time, by Simon Robinson, Time.

The Worst 50 Cars of All Time, by Dan Neil, Time,

What Your Car Says About You (Globe and Mail)

Cops Get a Zeta Sedan

Library Links: Special Topic: History of the Automobile

Smithsonian's History of the Automobile Bibliography 

Automotive Websites Recommended by the Librarians Internet Index

Archives

Library of Congress American Memory Collection 

Films: Triumph of America; Give Yourself th Green Light, To Market to Market, , Safest Place, The American Road Ford Motor Co 1953, John J.Coghlan Gas Machines  at www.archive.org

Chronicling America: Selected Newspapers 1880-1910 online.

Big Three History Timeline Associated Press.

Public Policy

Victoria Transport Design Institute

Big Three, Meet the "Little Eight": How foreign car factories have transformed the American South,

Online Exhibits

From Horses to Horsepower: Studebaker

Smithsonian Institution's "America On The Move" exhibit

 The Automobile in American Life and Society

Detroit

Saving the Most Salvagable Neighborhoods, Detroit Free Press, Nov. 1, 2009.  

Detroit: The Death -- And Possible Life -- of a Great City, by Daniel Okrent, Time Magazine, Thursday Sept. 24, 2009.

The Remains of Detroit - Photo Essay by Sean Hemmerle, Time.

Reading a Machine 

Essay by Michael Mahoney.

New Products

MDI AirPod - compressed air powered car.

On Line Histories

About.com's Automotive History site

Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage

GM corporation history timeline

General Motors: 10 Milestones on the Road to Bankruptcy Time Magazine

History Channel's This Day in Automotive History

Museum of Automobile History

Showroom of Automotive History- the Model T

Smithsonian Institution's Transportation History Page

Lowrider Custom Cars 

The Lincoln Highway

                    Filler Up!  The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations
 
                    US Auto Jobs 101 - Interactive Map

Advertising

Print Car Advertisements 1940s-70s
                     Compilation of 1940s-70s ads

                    Futuramic Oldsmobile 1948

                    Wonderful World of  Fords 1960  Galaxy, Thunderbird,   Falcon   
       
                    Corvair in Action

Volkswagon Bus Ads

Great VW Ads

Banned Smart Car Ad - No Back Seat

Greenpeace Anti-SUV Ad

Volkswagen Low Ego Emissions Ad

Flashing Porsche

Sex and Auto Advertising Playlist 

Spirit of Transportation Auto Ad

"Some where west of  Laramie" Jordan car ad

Nicole-Papa Ad 1 

Nicole-Papa Ad 2 

Video

George Bush Meets the Auto Executives Nov. 2006.

Henry Ford's First Auto

Somewhere Under the Radar by Vince Collins 2009

Retread SUV Commericals with the SUV removed

John Coghlan’s Gas Machines

Frank Gilbreth's Time and Motion Studies, 1910-24

Wheels of Progress 1927 - Progress and Roads

Gasoline for Everybody 1944

Traffic Jam, 1930

1936 Chevrolet uses Bathing Beauties Diving off the Roof to sell cars

The Safest Place. 1935 film proving the car is your “living room on wheels” is the safest place you can be

We the Driver - Driver Safety 1935  Good versus evil

Futurama Part 1, World Fair 1939 

Futurama, Part 2, Worlds Fair 1939

Design for  Dreaming GM Motoroma 1956

In the Suburbs, 1957 (Redbook)

Styling and the Experimental Car 1964

Using Celebrity to Sell Cars

Cool Hand Luke, Car Wash Scene

Ford's Most Modern Factory is in Rural Brazil

Why we should Save the Auto Industry with lots of Public Money 

                Benz F-Cell Roadster Concept: A blast from the past (1886)

Kustom Kar Kommando 

All Time Best Automobile Song Contest

Still D.RE. music video from Dr. D.R.E (Video)

Canyonero with the Simpsons (video)

"Big Yellow Taxi" 1970 by Joni Mitchell (video)     Lyrics

Highway Star by Deep Purple

Highwayman by Willie Nelson

Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf  Lyrics

Barracuda by Heart 

The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car by Trooper  (Lyrics)

No Particular Place to Go (Riding Along in My Automobile) by Chuck Berry  Lyrics

Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen

Chuck Berry, Maybellene

Willaim De Vaughan, Be Thankful for Waht You Got

Matha Reeves and the Vandellas Nowerhe to Run (filmed in the Mustang Assembly Line)

Freeway of Love Aretha Franklin 

Ludacris, Diamond in the Back

Smokey Robinson, Cruisin'


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