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Gar Wood boats : classics of a golden era

Of all the legendary and elegant wooden speedboats and runaboats currently collected and restored, Gar Woods, named for their flamboyant creator, are arguably the most coveted. Whereas Chris Craft survived the Great Depression and World War II to enjoy prolific production, only 3,500 Gar Woods were ever built -- of those, only a few hundred are known to exist today

Print Book, English, 1999
MBI Pub. Co., Osceola, WI, 1999