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Subject:Re: Mandatory VW Reading
From:Steve Delanty
Date:Fri, 2 May 2003 17:43:36 -0700

At 04:52 PM 5/2/2003, you wrote:
>Book name: Small Wonder
>Writer: Walter Henry Nelson
>Subject: VW from just a dirty little Ferdinand Porsche idea to 1970 model
>production.
>Summary: Tells about the people, places, economic circumstances, Adolf's
>VW Plan, British production years, selling across the Atlantic.
>First publication: 1965, Expanded and updated 1970 on third publication.
>Library of Congress Catalog Card: 79-119031
>If you think list members are inventing stories to tell
>.................. this will give you the ammunition to say: Whoa! Not
>So.
>
>Stan Wilder

What a great book!  It's a great read for anyone interested in the
history of the VW company. (And what a weird and interesting
time those early years VW years were!)

It's strange you would mention it. I unearthed my copy from a
box of "cherished old books" just yesterday.

I *highly* recommend it!

Steve