Bobcat: Fifty Years » (First)

Marty Padgett has been an automotive journalist since the 1990s. He is currently editor of “the Web’s automotive authority,” TheCarConnection.com (www.thecarconnection.com). In addition, Padgett contributes regularly to Stuff magazine as their resident “road warrior.” He also writes car news and columns for Import Tuner, Edmunds.com and other publications. Over the years, his articles have appeared in a wide range of magazines, including Car and Driver, Outside, AutoWeek, Men’s Health, and Details.

Marking the 50th anniversary of an icon of American industry, this book celebrates a half-century of Bobcat with brilliant images of these quintessentially American machines at work, including historical photographs and diagrams, alongside the full story of the only skid-steer loader that has ever mattered. Often imitated but never equaled, the Bobcat was born when some hardy souls in the Northern Plains needed a new way to get workdone. The pictures in these pages show how the Bobcat loader has been moving American industry ever since, joined over the years by Bobcat excavators and trenchers, utility trucks and more.