Car Spy: Secret Cars Exposed by the Industry's Most Notorious Photograhper

Car Spy: Secret Cars Exposed by the Industry's Most Notorious Photograhper

by Jim Dunne
Car Spy: Secret Cars Exposed by the Industry's Most Notorious Photograhper

Car Spy: Secret Cars Exposed by the Industry's Most Notorious Photograhper

by Jim Dunne

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Overview

All automobile manufacturers go to great pains to keep their future models under wraps until ready for public unveiling. Huge proving grounds in remote locations with roving, menacing private security forces are enough to keep the casual observers away. But not everyone is a casual observer. Some are quite serious about clamping eyes (and lenses) on the latest design innovations, often years before they become available to the public. If you�ve ever picked up a car magazine and looked at a grainy photo of an oddly shaped and camouflaged car under the headline �2017 Supercar Revealed!� then you have seen the work of the car spy, Jim Dunne. This illustrated narrative tells the tales behind the photos, in an engaging and often humorous fashion. Car Spy is illustrated with more than 200 vintage black and white and modern color images of domestic and foreign cars in various stages of development and testing.

Car Spy will prove irresistible to automotive enthusiasts that have an interest in new cars, the manufacturing process, and the lengths manufacturers will go to in order to protect their intellectual property. People will be fascinated by the lengths a photographer will go to in order to scoop a manufacturer�s new car. This book will narrate the humorous, behind-the-scenes stories to accompany the spy photos.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781934709818
Publisher: CarTech, Incorporated
Publication date: 08/15/2011
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword J. Patrick Wright 5

Preface: Unexpected Advice 7

Introduction: Three Tales from the Front 8

Chapter 1 The Perils and Pleasures of Being a Spy 19

Chapter 2 Where They Test, I Shoot 32

Chapter 3 Clinics: Two Hits and a Miss 56

Chapter 4 Location, Location, Location: My Ranchette 66

Chapter 5 If They Build Them, I Will Come: Factory Tours and Press Trips 79

Chapter 6 Test Cars on the Road and on the Track 94

Chapter 7 Cars Under Cover: The Story of Camouflage 106

Chapter 8 Characters of the Car World 121

Chapter 9 The War Room 149

Chapter 10 Where Detroit Went Wrong 164

Chapter 11 My Best, Their Worst 169

Chapter 12 So You Want to Be an Auto Writer 195

Chapter 13 Bonus Spy Tips 208

Acknowledgments 217

Index 218

About the Author 220

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