7 ratings | 2 reviews | avg rating:4.29

Tom Glatch’s Followers (6)

Tom’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (7)

Tom’s Friends

Tom hasn't connected with his friends on Goodreads, yet.

Tom Glatch

Goodreads Author

Born

in Milwaukee, WI, The United States

Website

https://glatch.net

Genre

Nonfiction, History, Biography

Influences

Laura Hillenbrand, Thomas Merton, Griffith Borgeson

Member Since

May 2017

edit data

I was 4 years old when my late brother Ray bought a new 1960 Oldsmobile 98 convertible (he was 13 years older), and I was hooked! Top down on a warm summer night, listening to "Fun, Fun, Fun" on the radio (with added reverb unit), that was heaven. At other times Ray owned a 1966 Austin Healey 3000, a 1953 Studebaker Starliner, and later an MG Midget. My father owned a 1959 Pontiac Catalina at the time, a powerful black beauty with a silver metallic interior. Throughout the Sixties Dad bought used Buick Wildcats. These powerful, stylish cars spawned my interest in all things automotive. My first car was a wickedly fast 1970 Plymouth Duster 340, followed by a 1969 BMW 2002 and later a 1967 Plymouth Satellite convertible. While I have never be I was 4 years old when my late brother Ray bought a new 1960 Oldsmobile 98 convertible (he was 13 years older), and I was hooked! Top down on a warm summer night, listening to "Fun, Fun, Fun" on the radio (with added reverb unit), that was heaven. At other times Ray owned a 1966 Austin Healey 3000, a 1953 Studebaker Starliner, and later an MG Midget. My father owned a 1959 Pontiac Catalina at the time, a powerful black beauty with a silver metallic interior. Throughout the Sixties Dad bought used Buick Wildcats. These powerful, stylish cars spawned my interest in all things automotive. My first car was a wickedly fast 1970 Plymouth Duster 340, followed by a 1969 BMW 2002 and later a 1967 Plymouth Satellite convertible. While I have never been a "collector", we purchased a 30,400 mile 1993 40th Anniversary Corvette convertible in January 2022, our dream car ever since we borrowed one from Chevrolet in 1993 for a travel story on Asheville, North Carolina.

I began photographing landscapes, auto racing, and architecture in 1976, first with a Canon AE-1, then, wanting ever more detail and control, an Ikeda 4x5 Field View. In April 1983 I decided to combine my photographic skills with my love of writing. Reading Road & Track magazine in my youth I was struck by the work of John Lamm, a gifted author and photographer who used both talents to create something very special. Then when I was 10 years old our local public library obtained a copy of "The Golden Age of the American Racing Car" by Griffith Borgeson, and I wore out this monumental work, which showed me literary beauty and academic research can coexist. More then anyone, Mr. Lamm and Mr. Borgeson inspired me to write about and photograph automobiles. I am also inspired by photographers O. Winston Link, Walker Evans, Balthazar Korab, Mickey McGuire and Harry de Zitter, while authors Laura Hillenbrand and Thomas Merton define what the written word is capable of.

My first story, on the Sesco Suzuki engine for Midget race cars, was published in Petersen's Circle Track magazine in one of their first issues. I did a number of vintage race car stories for them, then in 1986 also began photographing for Collectible Automobile magazine. I started contributing to Dobbs Publishing's magazines when they bought Corvette Fever in 1989, then followed friend and editor Paul Zazarine to the first internet magazine, corvettemagazine.com, in 1999. Paul then moved to Pontiac Enthusiast magazine a few years later, and I contributed to those titles until they folded during the Great Recession. On the recommendation of Mike Yager of Mid America Motorworks, I began writing auction analysis for Sports Car Market and their sister publications in 2007, and they are still a top client. In 2015 Motorbooks, the world's largest automotive book publisher, offered me a book, "The Complete Book of American Muscle Supercars", which lead to three other coffee table books with them. I have been blessed with working with some of the best automotive publications in the business over the past 39 years!

I met my wife Kelly in 1992 when I hired her to help me photograph a 1958 Corvette for Corvette Fever magazine, my top client throughout the 1990s. Three months later we were engaged, and we were married in September 1993. Kelly is a fine photographer, too, toting her red Nikon D5500, and she shares my enthusiasm for vehicles that look good and perform well. Automotive history has been our primary focus, but we've done biography, travel, and hagiography, too.

We are lifelong residents of the Upper Midwest of the United States. ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Tom Glatch questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Tom Glatch’s books

Average rating: 4.5 · 66 ratings · 27 reviews · 10 distinct works

	American Muscle Cars: A Full-Throttle History by Darwin Holmstrom, Tom Glatch (Goodreads Author) (Photographs) 4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Mopar: Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth Muscle Cars by Tom Glatch (Goodreads Author), Tom Loeser (Photographs) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Book of Dodge and Plymouth Muscle Cars: Every Model from 1960 to Today (Complete Book Series) by Mike Mueller, Tom Glatch (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Book of AMC Cars: American Motors Corporation 1954-1988 by Patrick R. Foster, Tom Glatch (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pontiac Trans Am: 50 Years 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Book of American Muscle Supercars: Yenko, Shelby, Baldwin Motion, Grand Spaulding, and More by Tom Glatch (Goodreads Author), David Newhardt (Photographs) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO: Every Model Since 1964 (Complete Book Series) by Tom Glatch (Goodreads Author), Bob Lutz (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corvette A Day Calendar 2017 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les plus belles Mopar - muscle cars Chrysler, Dodge et Plymouth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art of Mopar: Legendäre Muscle Cars by Tom Loeser, Tom Glatch (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Tom Glatch…

42 posts
Tom Glatch's Blog

Detroit Free Press Reviews The Complete Book of AMC Cars

We were recently honored to have Eric Lawrence of The Detroit Free Press review The Complete Book of AMC Cars. Eric is one of the finest automotive writers around, and The Detroit Free Press is one of the top sources of all automotive news. You can read Eric’s review here.

The post Detroit Free Press Reviews The Complete Book of AMC Cars appeared first on Tom Glatch.

rss
Tom’s Recent Updates

Tom Glatch wrote a new blog post Detroit Free Press Reviews The Complete Book of AMC Cars We were recently honored to have Eric Lawrence of The Detroit Free Press review The Complete Book of AMC Cars. Eric is one of the finest automotive wr Read more of this blog post »
Jan 02, 2025 06:41AM · like

More of Tom's books…

Tom’s Friend Comments

No comments have been added yet.

Tom Glatch’s Followers (6)

Tom Glatch

Goodreads Author

Popular Answered Questions

rssTom’s Recent Updates

rss
Tom’s Recent Updates