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Tony Thacker is the Director of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California and a historian and writer in his own right. Surrounded by an archive of material and the living legends of hot rodding, Thacker has written a masterpiece dedicated to the 1932 Ford Deuce. Titled ’32 Ford Deuce, the book is simply huge. ’32 Ford Deuce measures 10 ¾ inches in width and 12 ¼ inches in height and is a rich 1 3/8 inches in thickness. The book weighed 5 pounds according to the bathroom scales. Yet it isn’t the heft or the size of the book that is impressive, but the quality of the book itself and the research that went into the subject. The book contains 310 black and white photographs, 273 color photographs, 10 pages of appendix covering all facets of the ’32 Ford Deuce, 26 art drawings, 10 diagrams and cut-aways, 15 newspapers stories and ads, 6 manuals, 8 charts and 46 miscellaneous magazine displays. Edsel B. Ford II wrote the brief Foreword and is understandably proud of this Ford masterpiece of engineering. We will be giving away two autographed copies of this awesome book.
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