Last week the second printing of an unusual U.S. art book was all but exhausted and the third printing was on the presses. The book is Floyd Clymer's Historical
Motor Scrapbook (Clymer Motors, $1.50). To Americans for whom an automobile is a 20th Century work of art and its evolution a nostalgic memory, Floyd Clymer's modest scrapbook is a must.
Tall, mild, bespectacled Floyd Clymer operates Clymer Motors, a Los Angeles wholesale and mail-order automobile-and motorcycle-equipment firm. When Floyd was seven, his doctor-father first let him drive his new 1902, curved-dash Oldsmobile. By...
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