Fall of Eagles, Airmen of World War One
by Alex Revell
By portraying the men at the controls, and using their own voices real and imagined, this book hits a nerve that dry stats do not.
Rolls-Royce and Bentley: the Crewe Years
by Martin Bennett
When this book first appeared in 1995 it quickly established itself as the primary source on all the Crewe cars from 1946 onwards. This 3rd edition adds 120 pages and takes us to 1998.
Fleetwood, The Company & the Coachcraft
by James J Schild
If all you associate with the name “Fleetwood” is “Cadillac” you are overdue for this book! That connection did not come about until after the Fisher brothers bought Fleetwood in 1925 and made it part of the GM empire.
Shelby Cobra Fifty Years
by Colin Comer
50 years ago, Carroll Shelby contacted British specialist manufacturer AC Cars to build him a car, but with an American V8 engine he was going to supply. This book recaps the history of an American icon.
Custom Motorcycles
by Miquel Tres with Claudia Matheja
A custom motorcycle is a very visible, and often very expensive, way of telling the world you’re different. In a world full of mass-market, cookie-cutter consumer goods anything custom is certainly worth a closer look.
Surviving Fighter Aircraft of World War Two: A Global Guide to Location and Types
by Don Berliner
Some 4000+ of around 750,000 aircraft built for WWII survived—this first of three books offers a guided tour of what they are and where they are.
Coachcraft: 1930s Coachbuilding Style
by John Dyson
This London-based coachbuilding company (1934) got its first contract from Railton which explains why it is the VP of today’s Railton Owners Club who wrote this book, the first and possibly last on this subject.
Form Follows Function: The Art of the Supercar
by Stuart Codling & James Mann
There are stacks of “supercar” and “dream car” books that stitch together superficial words and random photos of sexy cars as an excuse to inflict yet another vapid book upon the world. Not this one.
The Automotive Bibliography
by Denis Veilleux
This book catalogs monographs, theses, biographies, encyclopedias, company and government publications; even buyers’, collectors’, spotters’, and identification guides relating to every aspect of motorization.
Henri Chapron
by Dominique Pagneux
While always current in terms of popular taste, Chapron’s designs were not flashy or avant-garde but sober and of restrained elegance. During the peak years of 1928–31 their output reached a lofty 500 cars a year.
Vehicular Engine Design
by Kevin L Hoag
This graduate school textbook is an overview of what will be required of design engineers specializing in auto and light truck engines once they hire on with a major vehicle manufacturer. Fuel and ignition systems are not included, those topics being covered separately elsewhere.
Ferrari: 25 Years of Calendar Images
For more than a quarter of a century Ferrari has offered an “official” calendar, and for the whole of that time one single photographer has had the privilege of being The Man. This book uses select images from Raupp’s calendars to illustrate the story of Ferrari cars.
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