Vehicles of the Imagination: Published and Unpublished Transportation Concept Drawings

9781096196471. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 232. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 232 p. Author Steven M. Johnson has been described as a cartoonist who successfully predicted many future products. This book contains more than 1 500 concept drawings mostly unpublished on the subject of vehicles. These were drawn over a 45-year period when he maintained a sideline business as an inventor-cartoonist. His ideas are said to be brilliant prescient amusing or simply ludicrous. He has always had a fondness for automobiles. As a senior in high school in dry sunny California he had at one time a collection of five rust-free autos and often drove his 1929 Model A Ford Roadster to school. In the mid-a1950s a used car in running condition cost no more than $150. The book shows napkin scribbles index card notes and carefully illustrated concept drawings of vehicles that he has imagined. Not trained as an industrial designer he considers himself a wannabe inventor. Here he shares an enthusiasm for vehicles in a book that will be appreciated by those who like odd quirky humor as well as by nostalgic dads young mechanics and hot rod and classic car collectors.