Biography earl swift

I wanted something different to listen to as I drove to work, different from the usual memoirs and biographies of famous writers or Jewish families.

I love a bit of contemporary history, especially history that I can touch easily in my own memory banks and this memoir of the Chevy, the American car culture, and a foul-mouthed, self-proclaimed car guy with a penchant for fighting, felt like a good diversion.

Biography earl swift jr This attention to detail throughout Ear Swifts research is why this book definitely deserves 4 stars. But it's the last owner, Tommy Arney, that is the most amazing. Jonathan Rintels. In particular, I enjoyed the colorful dialogue and descriptions that made Tommy Arney and his band of merry men come alive on the pages.

And for much of the book, it was exactly that.

There was a lot of nostalgia evoked. I saw my father and his Dad, both 'car guys', who would have been able to easily visualize every gear, strut, and nuanced curve of the '57 Chevy. It evoked memories of my maternal grandfather, who owned a towing company and had a junk yard full of wrecked cars, rusting and wondrous, and the perfect place for a kid to run around exploring (Tommy Arney, the subject of this book, would have throat-punched anyone who called his business a junk yard).

I want to thank the author for taking a bit of time in the book to describe his own investigative work.

Not only is this book about the '57 Chevy, but it about a specific '57 Chevy wagon, and the author tracked the car through 12 owners and in doing so created another character who gleams off the showroom floor in and then ages through the years, and the author gives us a lifeline of an automobile.

As I have indicated, for much of the book, there is great nostalgia.

Biography earl swift Pub Date: Sept. Cox knew how to get people out of here! Jake Fones. This book is very interesting thoroughly describes the life of a car through the hands of many different owners.

A yearning for the simpler times of the s and the following two or three decades. One third of the book, the ending third, is dedicated to the rebuilding of this Chevy wagon and it is definitely detailed and overly so, and for those of us who aren't motorheads, it's a drag. It also goes in depth on the trials and tribulations of Mr. Arney, who built up an empire of go-go clubs, rental properties, and his classic auto business, but drew the attention of city inspectors and the IRS and ultimately would lose much of his personal worth before being sent to prison.

I will add a caveat for readers, Mr.

Arney is the possessor of a very foul mouth and at times I found it distracting to hear. I have nothing against swearing, my own grandfather cussed in a similarly relentless manner, but to hear it as frequently in the audiobook was very off-putting. Maybe it reads easier in the book form.