[Book Review] Histories Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths and Rumors Revealed

Histories Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths and Rumors Revealed

By Matt Stone and Preston Lerner

With over 100 years of automotive history and lore to fall back on, authors Matt Stone and Preston Lerner have amassed a compendium of some of the more outrageous, juicy and sometimes bizarre stories and urban legends from the automotive world. Organized into chapters devoted to such topics as Hollywood, Crime, Racing, Death, the Automotive Industry and Urban Legends, the authors analyze, and in some cases debunk, such popular stories as the curse surrounding James Dean’s fatal Porsche Spyder, whether a 1964 Chevy Impala really flew off a cliff at 350 mph and was Rodney King’s lowly 68-hp Hyundai Excel really capable of his purported 115-mph chase that led to the L.A. Riots?

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