ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society, and the ways we might preserve and conserve it.

Drawing on contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and comprising six sections, this volume carries the heritage discourse forward by exploring the complex and sometimes intricate place of automobiles within society. Taken as a whole, this book helps to shape how we think about automobile heritage and considers how that heritage explores a range of cultural, intellectual, emotional, and material elements well outside of the automobile body itself. Most importantly, perhaps, it questions how we might better acknowledge the importance of automotive heritage now and in the future.

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation is unique in that it juxtaposes theory with practice, academic approaches with practical experience, and recognizes that issues of preservation and conservation belong in a broad context. As such, this volume should be essential reading for both academics and practitioners with an interest in automobiles, cultural heritage, and preservation.

chapter |16 pages

Driven heritage

Introduction

part I|2 pages

Defining automotive heritage from other forms of heritage studies

chapter 1|16 pages

Preservation education and automotive heritage

A holistic approach

chapter 2|12 pages

The treatment of historic automobiles and buildings

Conservation charters and impacts on practice

chapter 3|10 pages

Archaeology and the automobile

part II|2 pages

Conservation and preservation of historic vehicles and associated built environments

chapter 4|11 pages

The “original car”

Conservation, preservation, and the dilemma of mass production

chapter 5|16 pages

Customized vehicles as material culture

A tale of two hot rods

chapter 6|13 pages

Thinking before restoration

Case studies from France’s National Automobile Museum’s Schlumpf Collection

chapter 7|13 pages

Restoring the “unrestored”

New challenges in the preservation of historic vehicles

chapter 8|16 pages

Made in England

How the British set the world standard in preserving motorcycle history and historic motorcycles

chapter 9|21 pages

Adaptive reuse

Parking, zoning, and shopping malls

part III|2 pages

The future of the automotive museum

chapter 11|11 pages

Do you wear white gloves when changing a tire?

The role of museums in historic vehicle preservation

chapter 12|16 pages

Rolling sculpture

Fine cars as fine art … it’s about time

chapter 13|12 pages

A shared heritage of modernity

Telling inclusive motoring stories in the National Motor Museum of Australia

part IV|2 pages

The significance of experiencing intangible automotive heritage

chapter 14|10 pages

Sociologizing automotive heritage

Traditions of automobile folklore and the challenges of risk society

chapter 15|18 pages

What moves us

Differences in cultural attitudes toward automotive preservation and use between Scandinavia and the United States

chapter 16|12 pages

Pebble Beach and Barrett-Jackson

The nexus of automobile heritage and tourism

chapter 17|10 pages

Golden boy in a brave new world

Mike Hawthorn and motorsports heritage in a cultural landscape

chapter 18|13 pages

Car(acter)s in cinematic culture

chapter 19|13 pages

Driving in the dark

Automobilities in film noir landscapes

part V|2 pages

Car design and heritage identity making

chapter 20|15 pages

Branding an American icon

Cultural heritage and the Corvette community

chapter 21|7 pages

Casting values

Molding the Israeli national car

chapter 22|15 pages

Driving patriotism

The shaping of British nationalism and nostalgia in Motor Sport magazine

chapter 23|11 pages

From hobby to high end via heritage

Becoming “Bentley”

part VI|2 pages

Sustainable futures for personal mobility

chapter 24|8 pages

What will remain of automobilism and car culture?

Current issues of global and local automotive heritage

chapter 25|11 pages

It’s the end of the car as we know it

The transformational impact of autonomous cars

chapter 26|16 pages

In search of the greenest car *

Automobility and sustainability

chapter 27|7 pages

Heritage driven

Conclusion

chapter |4 pages

Afterword