Every time we open the car door and slide behind the steering wheel, we face the most important automotive focal point of all—the dashboard. This is where we make our most essential and intimate contact with the car. Arrayed before us, often in a bewildering array of instrumentation, the dashboard offers vital controls and crucial information for the driver. From the most basic functionality of steering and throttle control to an astonishing array of navigation, safety, communication and entertainment features that existed only in science fiction a generation ago, the dashboard truly is the nerve center of the automobile. The dashboard alludes to humanity’s mastery over machines, but at its finest, the dash expresses the emotional and stylistic essence of the particular car. Whether conveying the austere functionality of the original Model T, or the exotic, high-speed thrills of a 1960s Ferrari, the dashboard embodies the emotion and soul of the automobile, communicating to the driver “this is a very special car!” Spanning the last 100 years of automotive history, The Dashboard, gives us a privileged glimpse from behind the wheel of some of the most fabulous and important cars of all time. The Dashboard invites the viewer to savor these automotive masterpieces from an unusual, personal perspective, while offering eye-popping exterior images as well. This interior/exterior perspective provides the viewer with the crucial stylistic context in which to place the classic dashboard. Truly great cars have always managed to marry bold exterior design with harmonious, functional and exciting interiors. The Dashboard captures this remarkable synergy, allowing us to experience the automobile in all its glory.

The Dashboard

LEWIS, Lucinda

Arts & Photography

Car Culture

In the tradition of her landmark coffee-table book Roadside America: The Automobile and the American Dream, renowned automotive visionary and award-winning photographer Lucinda Lewis wows lovers of classic automobiles and popular culture with her photographic tribute to one of the world’s most iconic automobiles—the Chevrolet Bel Air. This pictorial essay of the Bel Air car series is a must have book for anyone who appreciates classic American cars. Lewis has selected some of her favorite photographs from the vintage Bel Air series in their natural habitat – the highways and byways of America. The result, Chevrolet Bel Air: Car Culture Classics Volume 1, is a visual feast of chrome-laden Bel Air’s and their artistically designed accessories and automotive design features set against the backdrop of roadside America with its gleaming neon-drenched 20th century architecture influenced by the rise of the automobile. You will never look at a Chevrolet Bel Air the same way again.

Chevrolet Bel Air (Car Culture Classics)

In the tradition of her landmark coffee-table book Roadside America: The Automobile and the American Dream, renowned automotive visionary and award-winning photographer Lucinda Lewis wows lovers of classic automobiles and popular culture with her photographic tribute to one of the world’s most iconic automobiles—the Chevrolet Bel Air. In the tradition of her landmark coffee-table book Roadside America: The Automobile and the American Dream, renowned automotive visionary and award-winning photographer Lucinda Lewis wows lovers of classic automobiles and popular culture with her photographic tribute to one of the world’s most iconic automobiles—the Chevrolet Bel Air. This pictorial essay of the Bel Air car series is a must have book for anyone who appreciates classic American cars. Lewis has selected some of her favorite photographs from the vintage Bel Air series in their natural habitat – the highways and byways of America. The result, Car Culture Classics: Chevrolet Bel Air, is a visual feast of chrome-laden Bel Air’s and their artistically designed accessories and automotive design features set against the backdrop of roadside America with its gleaming neon-drenched 20th century architecture influenced by the rise of the automobile. You will never look at a Chevrolet Bel Air the same way again.

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The Dashboard

Chevrolet Bel Air (Car Culture Classics)

Chevrolet Bel Air (Car Culture Classics)