Plastics Exposed

"Plastics Exposed" is about life at the beginning of the revolution that saw plastics replace steel worldwide as the predominant material in cars and trucks - developments that gave motor vehicles the weight advantage that make today's stringent fuel standards possible "Plastics Exposed" entertains with first-person accounts of that helter-skelter period, as the public demanded ever greater fuel efficiency, and manufacturers demanded lighter cars, and give readers a sense of the international cast of characters who created an industry.