The Saga of the Willys Aero
From Second Fiddle to the Jeep to Proudly Wearing the Ford Badge, 1952–1971
by Mark L. James
How an obscure American compact car was built by four different automakers, over twenty years, on two continents, and helped launch the Brazilian auto industry.
Austin und Willys aus Berlin
by Klaus Gebhardt
You didn’t know that this quintessential American maker made cars in Germany? Not to worry—few seem to! This book will fix that.
Gearhead At Large
by Steven Rossi
A lifetime’s worth of car knowledge became decades worth of magazine columns that have now been turned into this book.
Timeless Mahindra
by Adil Jal Darukhanawala
Expand your Jeep knowledge by seeing not only what it did in India but what it does, far expanding the scope of its US brother.
Built to Better the Best: The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation History
by Jack Mueller
Cars pretty much sold themselves in the years following WWII. K-F, the new kid on the block, had the ideas, the product, the manufacturing capability, motivated workers, government loans—and still failed. This book takes a stab at laying out the complex reasons why.
Automobile Manufacturers of Cleveland and Ohio, 1864–1942
by Frank E. Wrenick with Elaine Wrenick
Automobiles made in Ohio? How about five hundred marques! Ever hear of a Ben-Hur? If not, this book will add a whole new arsenal of automotive minutia to your lexicon.
Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation
by Anthony J. Yanik
The list of Maxwell innovations is long, not just in terms of technology but also policy such as marketing specifically to women or hiring a gender-balanced sales force. Once a leading US carmaker, the original firm is long defunct but survives today in the form of Fiat Chrysler.
Karoserie Petera
by Jan Králík
Petera is not the first name that springs to mind when one thinks “coachbuilder.” However, this Czech firm was one of the most important coachbuilding firms in Central Europe from 1908 to the late 1970s, first making horse-drawn vehicles, sledges and hearses, then automobiles, trucks, coaches, and even gliders during World War Two.
Che’s Chevrolet, Fidel’s Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba
by Richard Schweid
A popular urban myth says that Cuba is filled with pristine examples of American cars from the 1950s and, that when Fidel Castro finally dies, a wave of these befinned wonders will roll up on our shores. Schweid traveled throughout the island nation researching its automotive history.