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Leaving her home in Seattle in mid-summer to drive "the long way round" to the Detroit auto show, Lesley Hazleton embarks on a five-month journey to visit the holy places for cars - where they are raced, displayed, crashed, tested, and made - as she seeks to understand our deep fascination with automobiles. A committed environmentalist in thrall to the internal combustion engine, Hazleton explores her own worship of speed during assaults on the landspeed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats; negotiates the famed off-road Rubicon Trail across the Sierras; finds the exact spot where James Dean died in his Porsche Spyder; and attends a crash conference in Albuquerque, where her discovery that "when metal and flesh collide, metal always wins," sheds light on our erotic fascination with the automobile. She crushes cars in a Houston junkyard; works the nightshift at the Saturn plant in Tennessee; and in Detroit, turns away from the glitz and gleam of new metal to watch what happens when a car is driven into a million pounds of concrete. Along the way she corresponds with a class of eight-year-olds, befriends a priest who fixes his parishioners' cars, and encounters people and places where

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Author

Hazleton, Lesley, 1945-

Publisher

Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684860114

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13