{"product_id":"9781487555825-dream-car","title":"Dream Car","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMalcolm Bricklin's Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity\u003cbr\u003eDream Car is the tale of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s sporty, sexy Safety Vehicle-1, a legendary failure in automotive history yet one that reveals much about postwar North America’s economic, political, and cultural evolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDream Car\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the history of the auto industry’s birth, decline, and rebirth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten as an \"open road,\" the book invites readers to travel a narrative arc that unfolds chronologically and thematically. \u003cem\u003eDream Car’s\u003c\/em\u003e seven chapters have been structured so that they can be read in any order, determined by whichever theme each reader finds most interesting. The book also includes a musical playlist of car songs from the era and songs about the SV1 itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41688055677025,"sku":"9781487555825","price":30.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_35407688_d997b011-1cf5-41b7-847f-bb6f1816d58b.jpg?v=1752788134","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781487555825-dream-car","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}