Close-up of the rear end of a vintage white Cadillac with a red lipstick-shaped hairbrush in the open trunk.

“FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT FOR A THRILLING RIDE THROUGH AMERICAN CAR CULTURE AT ITS PEAK IN THE 1950s AND 1960s.”

- Pat M. Malone, Brown University

BUY THE BOOK

Motor City Boomer: The Car Culture that Defined a Generation is now available in stores and online. Check your local bookstore or find it at Wayne State University Press, Bookshop.org, and on Amazon.

Book cover titled "Motor City Boomer" by Larry Lankton, with tagline "The car culture that defined a generation." Features a classic car tail fin in front of a stylized city map background.
Larry Lankton in a Route 66 motel shirt sitting in a coney island cafe.

MEET ME ON THE ROAD!

There are a number of book signings and author talks scheduled throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the Detroit Metro Area, and in Danville, Illinois. Cruise on in to swap car stories and learn more about the cultural history of automobiles in the Fifties and Sixties.