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McAllister, Cameron. |
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Angelo's father is an automobile designer in
Italy during 1940s and has a new car design showing at the
Paris auto show. But Angelo accidentally crashes
it. Now Angelo is determined to help hi father get
back his reputation and design a car for the people.
Together, they come up with a brand new concept. The
"people's car" will be economical enough that just about
everyone will be able to afford it and dependable enough
that they will want to. But World War II breaks out
and they must find a way to hide the car from the Germans
so they cannot use the new technology. Join Angelo
and his father as they take an old lawn mower and turn it
into a revolutionary car design. |
| SUBJECTS: Automobiles -- Design and
construction -- Fiction. Fathers and sons -- Fiction. France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction. Italians -- France -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction. |
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