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The Archaeological Automobile: Understanding and Living with Historical Automobiles
In the last one hundred years, cars have shaped our lives. Other everyday cultural artifacts, such as watches, telephones, musical instruments, and televisions, have certainly had influence, but the car is by far the most significant. Now, change is coming for the car, as it is for so many other industrial artifacts. Once, cars were distinct machines. Now, they are evolving into multifunctional digital devices. New fuels, new modes of travel, and new technologies are disrupting the traditional role of the much-loved family car.
What is to become of this material legacy? Should we really let go of it? Without memory, personal and shared, we lose our way, our individuality, and our culture. This proposition is at the heart of The Archaeological Automobile.
Miles C. Collier's landmark approach uses an "archaeological mindset" to interpret the automobile as a cultural artifact in six themes:
The Development of the Automobile describes how the car emerged from a pressing human need for mobility, tracing our relationship with horses, our invention of the bicycle, and how we turned our backs on both as daily transport for the allure of the car.
The Rise of the Collectible Automobile asks how and why ratty relics decaying in recycling yards can become valuable and treasured collectibles. It reveals the effect of cultural influences on our perception of cars and on the dynamics of the collector car market.
The Archaeological Mindset picks up a wrench, gets into the workshop, and tracks the restoration of a 1919 Ballot Indy car using hands-on experience and background research while deploying the "archaeological imagination." The archaeological clues are in the detail.
Collecting and the Archaeological Automobile deals with the characteristics of collecting. Why do we accumulate "stuff"? Is it greed? Is it passion? Is it a desire for legacy? And what makes a "good" collection? Is it bling? Is it style? Is it material worth? The answer lies in connoisseurship.
Restoring the Archaeological Automobile debates the merits of diverse restoration strategies and the reasoning behind them, including the tricky question of how to repaint the tilt-front nose of a 1964 Alfa Romeo GTZ racing car and still preserve the evidence of forty years of accumulated sandblasting and chipping.
The Archaeological Automobile of the Future is a call to action. Cars as we know them are customarily trashed, government regulations encourage indifference, and the skills and knowledge associated with fixing them are slowly vanishing as we lose older generations of experienced craftsmen. How can we preserve humanity's treasure trove of automotive knowledge for generations to come?
Filled with engaging stories and practical examples, this is a handbook of the most thoughtful practices, not just for automobile owners and the historical car industry, but for collectors, professionals, and users of all kinds of industrial -era artifacts.
The Archaeological Automobile combines scholarship, pertinent anecdotes, style, and experience to provide a stimulating account of why we should all be archaeologists now.
What is to become of this material legacy? Should we really let go of it? Without memory, personal and shared, we lose our way, our individuality, and our culture. This proposition is at the heart of The Archaeological Automobile.
Miles C. Collier's landmark approach uses an "archaeological mindset" to interpret the automobile as a cultural artifact in six themes:
The Development of the Automobile describes how the car emerged from a pressing human need for mobility, tracing our relationship with horses, our invention of the bicycle, and how we turned our backs on both as daily transport for the allure of the car.
The Rise of the Collectible Automobile asks how and why ratty relics decaying in recycling yards can become valuable and treasured collectibles. It reveals the effect of cultural influences on our perception of cars and on the dynamics of the collector car market.
The Archaeological Mindset picks up a wrench, gets into the workshop, and tracks the restoration of a 1919 Ballot Indy car using hands-on experience and background research while deploying the "archaeological imagination." The archaeological clues are in the detail.
Collecting and the Archaeological Automobile deals with the characteristics of collecting. Why do we accumulate "stuff"? Is it greed? Is it passion? Is it a desire for legacy? And what makes a "good" collection? Is it bling? Is it style? Is it material worth? The answer lies in connoisseurship.
Restoring the Archaeological Automobile debates the merits of diverse restoration strategies and the reasoning behind them, including the tricky question of how to repaint the tilt-front nose of a 1964 Alfa Romeo GTZ racing car and still preserve the evidence of forty years of accumulated sandblasting and chipping.
The Archaeological Automobile of the Future is a call to action. Cars as we know them are customarily trashed, government regulations encourage indifference, and the skills and knowledge associated with fixing them are slowly vanishing as we lose older generations of experienced craftsmen. How can we preserve humanity's treasure trove of automotive knowledge for generations to come?
Filled with engaging stories and practical examples, this is a handbook of the most thoughtful practices, not just for automobile owners and the historical car industry, but for collectors, professionals, and users of all kinds of industrial -era artifacts.
The Archaeological Automobile combines scholarship, pertinent anecdotes, style, and experience to provide a stimulating account of why we should all be archaeologists now.
Book Details
- Publisher: Collier Automedia
- Publish Date: Jan 15th, 2022
- Pages: 392
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 11.34in - 8.90in - 1.42in - 4.80lb
- EAN: 9781735645100
- Categories: • Subjects & Themes - Transportation• Archaeology• Automotive - Antique & Classic
About the Author
Collier, Miles C.: - Miles C. Collier is an ex-race car driver and trained artist. He is Founder of Revs Institute(R) in Naples, Florida, regarded as one of the greatest repositories of automobile resources in the world. He has been intimately involved with automobiles for more than fifty years and has written innumerable articles for specialist automobile magazines, academic anthologies on automotive topics, and other publications. He is well known as an advocate of the automobile as being among the most important technological artifacts of the twentieth century.
The Archaeological Automobile, his first book, is a legacy resource that assigns the car its rightful place at the cultural center of the contemporary world.
The Archaeological Automobile, his first book, is a legacy resource that assigns the car its rightful place at the cultural center of the contemporary world.
Praise for this book
"From his love of his modern supercharged Mini-Cooper to his archaeologic decoding of his 1919 Ballot Indy racer, Miles C. Collier makes you feel like you are standing next to him as he shares his way of looking at and understanding motorcars old and new." --Keith Martin, Publisher, Sports Car Market
"This book is full of examples of why more of us should take a moment to dig just a bit deeper, spend some time in honest deliberation and truly examine with an open mind what we observe." --Donald Osborne, ASA, CEO Audrain Group
"Miles C. Collier both pioneers and champions the case that automobiles, and all that surrounds them, deserve rigorous study, like works of art." --McKeel Hagerty, Chief Executive Officer, Hagerty
"A must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the collector car industry." --David Gooding, President, Gooding & Company
"This book repositions the automobile in the context of what we must do to preserve objects of historical importance for our understanding of human evolution. In a throwaway society this is an essential exercise." --Professor Peter Stevens, Automotive Designer of the McLaren F1
"From absolutely the most authentic and deepest-thinking of life long 'car guys, ' this meticulously researched book is a must-have for everyone concerned about the identity and the future of the truly historic automobile." --The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Founder, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Goodwood
"If I were a college professor of English, archaeology, sociology, and history, I would hold up this book as an example of 'how it's done best.' It isn't enough to disseminate knowledge; writers have to convey its significance. Miles C. Collier succeeds in that." --Lisa A. Mets, VP, Eckerd College