Archive for Author 'Other', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Mr Radley Drives to Vienna
by John Kennedy
Look closely at that cover. Looks like a color print of a b/w photo, right? No! Everything is re-staged—a hundred years apart.
Damsels in Design
by Constance A. Smith
No one thinks twice about women picking wallpaper and hubby’s wardrobe—but planes, trains, automobiles?? And more than seventy years ago? Only one of the twenty considered here made it a lifetime career but all left their mark.
Farman: De l’Aviation á l’Automobile
by Claude Rouxel, Laurent Friry
Built to last forever, Farman cars fell victim to their complexity and the value of the raw materials from which they were made. As the first serious study of the marque, there’s every reason to believe this fascinating and long-awaited book will outlast its subject.
Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion Car
by Jonathan Glancey, Norman Foster
Fuller built three Dymaxions, not so much to build cars but to explore a concept he applied to pretty much everything in life. British architect Norman Foster built a fourth, for a 2010 exhibition in Spain, and this book tells the story of all four.
Ballot
by Daniel Cabart and Gautam Sen
The fastest cars in the world right when they came out (1919). Innovative. Good-looking. Other makers were inspired by them. Today: obscure. Now this monumental 920-page book is a most proper 100th anniversary present.
Swedish Coachbuilders – A Story of Craftsmanship
by Jan Ströman
You may not know the names, you may not even know how to pronounce them but Sweden is more than Saab and Volvo (or Koenigsegg)! This book shows how early Teutonic influences gave way to more original expressions.
The State of American Hot Rodding
by David Lawrence Miller
As American as Jazz but hot rodding is the very picture of old-school—so how will the hobby attract the next generation of enthusiasts?
Dirty Work
by Richard Vaux with Brad Kuhn
June, 1985. Cairo to San Diego. You probably remember hearing on the news that the plane was hijacked. There are even two movies—but until you read this book, you have no idea what really happened.
Follmer: American Wheel Man
by Tom Madigan
From throwing around VW Beetles in parking lots as a young kid to being the oldest F1 débutant since the 1950s, Follmer is the consummate racer. Long retired, you can still find him at vintage races, often in the same cars!
Selling the American Muscle Car: Marketing Detroit Iron in the ’60s and ’70s
by Diego Rosenberg
Just the name “muscle car” was enough to make traditional car buyers—adults, male, conservative—shudder at the thought of running into hotrodders and hooligans at the showroom. Quite the pickle for the carmakers’ marketing folks.
Bud Moore’s Right Hand Man: A NASCAR Team Manager’s Career at Full Throttle
by Greg Moore with Perry Allen Wood
A look at NASCAR from the inside. Watching it on TV or even live gives you little insight into what goes on on the other side of pit wall—not always pretty and never simple.
Bonneville: A Century of Speed
by David Fetherston and Ron Main
The mythic salt flats have played an important role in motorsports for over a hundred years. This book is meant to celebrate and promote it, and back up the myth with hard data but, much like the salt itself, it has difficulties yielding a smooth, straight run.
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