Traces the history of the automobile from the first self-propelled steam vehicle of the eighteenth century to the proposed external-combustion engine cars of the future.
After the death of his mother and stepfather, sixteen-year-old Steve leaves New England to live in Alabama with his father, a fisherman he has never seen.
Two brothers who accidentally acquire a Doble, an old steam automobile, have serious differences when one desperately needs the money it is worth and the other is determined to restore it before selling.
After witnessing a murder by one of Chicago's toughest gangs, LeRoy flees his native city to hide at the home of his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi and must decide if he will risk his life to testify.
When a famous, hard-headed automobile racer refuses to hire his son as a driver, the equally stubborn son strikes out on his own until father and son eventually crash on the same race course.
Traces the history of the automobile from the first self-propelled steam vehicle of the eighteenth century to the proposed external-combustion engine cars of the future.
As a result of losing a race with a police car, a seventeen-year-old boy loses five hundred dollars, his license, his girl friend, his college scholarship, and his good reputation and discovers that the road back to respectability is anything but smooth.
Traces the history of the automobile from the first self-propelled steam vehicle of the eighteenth century to the proposed external-combustion engine cars of the future.
Hesitant to return to stock car racing after his partner is killed, twenty-three-year-old Ed Stevens decides to try Europe's Formula I road racing instead.