The lure of classic cars is undeniable and one of the most important features of any classic car is the dashboard. Whether in gleaming chrome, polished wood or padded leather, the "dashboard" has always conveyed much of an automobile's individual design character.  Placing the reader behind the wheel, this book presents a fascinating array of luxury inventiveness and dashboards of over fifty different vehicles.  From the raw simplicity of the Ford Model T and Willy's Jeep to the ultra high-end luxury of the Cord 812 and Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR to the fully equipped cabin of an Aston Martin DB2/4, each dashboard has been photograph up close and described in detail.  The many sections of "Dashboards" are as follows: 1) Foreword by Gordon Murray; 2) Introduction; 3) Panhard et Levassor (1904); 4) Mercedes 37/90 (1912); 5) Bebe-Peugeot (1913); 6) Bugatti Type 13 (1913); 7) Newton-Bennett (1913); 8) Morgan 3-wheeler (1920); 9) Aston Martin 'Razor Blade'; 10) Rolls-Royce Springfield Silver Ghost (1924); 11) Trojan (1924); 12) Austin 7 (1925); 13) Rolls-Royce 20 'Howdah'; 14) Bentley 3-litre (1926); 15) Ford Model T (1927); 16) Voisin 3-litre (1927); 17) Hispano-Suiza H6B (1929); 18) Mercedes-Benz 38/250 SSK (1929); 19) Delage D8 (1930); 20) Dusenberg Model J (1930); 21) Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8A (1930); 22) Minerva AK 'Torpedo' (1930); 23) Daimler 35/120 (1931); 24) Bugatti Type 51 (1932); 25) SSII (1932); 26) Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Le Mans (1934); 27) Mercedes-Benz W25 GP (1934); 28) MG Midget PA (1934); 29) Aston Martin Ulster (1935); 30) Austin Twin-Cam (1936); 31) Chrysler Imperial (1937); 32) Cord 812 (1937); 33) Packard V-12 (1937); 34) Mercedes-Benz 540K (1938); 35) Ford V-8 (1939); 36) Maybach DS8 Zeppelin; 37) Willys Jeep (1943); 38) Talbot Lago Record (1947); 39) BRM V-16 GP (1949); 40) Chrysler New Yorker (1950); 41) Cooper 500 (1950); 42) Jaguar XK120 (1950); 43) Buick Le Sabre (1951); 44) Ferrari 212 Inter (1952); 45) Aston Martin DB2/4 (1953); 46) Chevrolet Corvette (1955); 47) Jaguar Mk VIIM (1955); 48) Lancia Aurelia B20 GT (1955); 49) Mercedes Benz 300SLR (1955); 50) Ford Edsel (1958); 51) Aston Martin DBR4 GP (1959); 52) Cadillac Eldorado (1959); 53) Facel Vega HK500 (1961); 54) BMW 2002 Turbo (1973); 55) Glossary and 56) Acknowledgements.  In addition to an informative narrative, this book includes 169 color photographs with one up-close shot of each automobile's dashboard.  This book is 224 pages and is in excellent condition.  The author is David Holland.  Edition published in 1994.