Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Vroom!

Let the Bathroom Readers' Institute take you on the ultimate road trip! From the first motorized vehicles to the flying cars of tomorrow, you'll race around the world to learn about some great sets of wheels and the men and women who make them go. So strap on your seatbelts--it's going to be a fun ride! Read about... The Batmobile--a timelineThe yacht that cost more than some countries' GDPThe stories behind car songs, from why Sammy Hagar couldn't drive 55 to the real Little GTOThe most expensive clunkers in automobile historyThe Black Beetle: a New York Central train outfitted with jet enginesClark Griswold's "Wagon Queen Family Truckster" and other famous movie carsMake your pickup into a Monster Truck!The real story of the Car Talk guysGhost planes and haunted shipsSetting the land speed recordWho were Harley and Davidson?The legal woes of Abraham Levy, inventor of the dashboard shadeNASCAR's greatest heroes and sorest losersThe origin of crash-test dummiesDriving to work on the moon

ISBN 160710184X   Pages 464 ISBN13 9781607101840 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 567 Publisher Advantage Publishers Group   Published in San Diego Imprint Advantage Publishers Group   Series title Uncle John's Bathroom Readers Format Paperback   Height (mm) 208 Publication date 29 Sep 2011   Width (mm) 137 DEWEY 388.34   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

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