The book's cover gives the false impression that the scale model "dream cars" are the prime subject matter. The author treats the Napoleonic Coach Competition, coach building and the coach-builders extensively having worked in close consultation with Mr. Skip Geear, America's top expert and guru on the subject. Skip runs the famous FBCG Foundation and Mini-Museum in Eagle Point, Oregon. The coach chapter is a major achievement and has taken years and years of research to complete. You can learn more about Skip Geear, the Foundation and contents of the Mini-Musuem at the Fisher Body Online website. To head directly to the article about the Mini-Museum and the life-size coach created by Francis Londo, click here.

Not to be out done, the scale model "dream car" makers, as the author likes to call them, get equal treatment with lots of period-vintage photographs, photo enhanced "how-to" descriptions, and recently prepared, and unedited, autobiographies written by many of Detroit's top auto designers, Design Chiefs, Directors of Design, and Design Executives who got their start as teenagers the Fisher Body Craftman's Guild.

Besides the history of the miniature model coach building and scale model "dream car" making, the book features 60 autobiographies and biographies, written by and about the top scholarship winning Guildsmen; their lives, their times and their accomplishments. Many of them became a generation and a half of America's top industrial designers specializing in automobile and automotive styling/design, consumer products, graphics and packaging as well as interior and exterior architectural design. The Guild people influenced our aesthetic world for 35 to 40 years and made it a better place.

The history, memorabilia and the people of the Craftsman's Guild are thoroughly covered.