That beautiful car is a stain young 1906 Oldsmobile Model B Runabout . Yep , Bob Ferry used Googles Books to find oneself sometime magazines that name mechanics , showed pictures and yield descriptions of the Oldsmobile so he could build up it a 100 years later .
There ’s like a million books ( over 3 million ) on Google Books , wee it a gem treasure trove of information that ’s easily searchable , diggable and findable . Perry , who is a 51 - year - onetime shop mechanic , found out of print issues of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics and Holy Writ like Harper ’s gasolene engine book to create an original a replica as potential . He download over a hundred Google Books to his iPad and started build .
It ’s awesome what resourceful mass can do with the Google . And there ’s lowly ol’ me who just used it to search anna kournikova biggest also-ran . Better fortune next time . [ Inside Google Books ]
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