Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Ferrari in America: Luigi Chinetti and the North American Racing Team

by Michael T. Lynch

A topic essential to the history of Ferrari in America and, given the enormity of that market, to the marque as a whole, both in regards to motorsports presence and road car brand value.

The Art of New German Car Photography: autoalbum 06

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Fifty of the best German automotive photographers, or photographers who work in Germany, or for German clients. No matter. Car photos. Well, mostly of cars. Definitely not car words.

Inside OSCA: The Bolognese Miracle That Amazed The World 

by Carlo Cavicchi

OSCA was the brainchild of the Maserati brothers and they certainly knew what’s what in sports- and racecar-building. But: “Much as genius was overflowing in Bologna, money was lacking.” Always the money. This book tells the story mostly in photos.

Honda: Road to the Red Zone, Sports Story / Voyage en Zone Rouge, l’histoire sportive

by Lionel Lucas

You see Hondas every day; you see books every day. But wait. What you don’t see every day are the Type R versions covered here and you definitely don’t see ambitious, creative, and fun books like this often!

Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing

by Ben Hunt

Motorsports revolves around a vast multitude of unknowables, making the hand of fate a fickle one. Money buys many things but not guaranteed success, but without money, nothing is easy. From the Foreword all through the book the common theme is overcoming self-doubt and committing to the mission.

Lockheed Constellation: A Legends of Flight Illustrated History

by Wolfgang Borgmann

A fine book with which to start your Constellation discovery, and also to appreciate big-picture factors such as how different the playbook for air travel once was—and how difficult it was to have to deal with Howard Hughes.

Baldwin Locomotives

The title is straightforward enough, but what do you expect will be in this book? It will almost certainly surprise you; whether it’s a good surprise depends on where you are in your loco knowledge.

Ronny Bar Profiles: Spitfire, The Merlin Variants

by Ronny Bar

The book intentionally omits any sort of technical or operational detail—because that’s already been covered any which way elsewhere. Instead Ronny Bar does what he does best: show hundreds of examples in profiles to keep modelers busy for years.

Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale

by Patrick Dasse

Leave it to this author to keep finding topics that have been neglected in the literature, or, in this case, by history altogether. Hundreds of pages, hundreds of photos, and an odd case of Alfa’s in-house model playing second fiddle to an outside offering.

GHOSTS 2025 Calendars, The Great War & A Time Remembered

by Philip Makanna

Excellent air-to-air shots, esthetically pleasing, technically tricky, suitable for framing, not expensive. What more could you ask for?

Classic American Car Parts: A Pickers Guide to Buying & Selling

by David H. Lehr

If you want to learn about selling car parts, this book tells how to find, price, market, store and ship them. If you’re “just” a buyer, you’ll get a glimpse of how a dealer sees you.

The Boats of Summer: New York Harbor and Hudson River Day Passenger and Excursion Vessels 

by Richard V. Elliott

In the early days, summer life in NYC meant catching a steamer upriver, perhaps returning by train. Two splendid books representing decades of research look at 63 of the over 1000 vessels that provided such a service, ending in the 1970s when diesels had already taken the place of steam.

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