Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
The Key 2021, The Top of the Classic Car World
Antonio Ghini, editor
This is now the 4th edition of a yearbook that parses the Big Picture, backing up its analyses and forecasts with hard data gathered from surveys and self-reporting by the very people and entities that constitute the inner core of the organized collector car world.
Lime Rock Park: The Early Years 1955–1975
by Terry O’Neil
One of America’s oldest continuously operated road courses, Lime Rock has seen more strife and discord in the local community and in its own ranks, and legal wranglings and financial crises to shut it down a dozen times over. But it still operates. It has taken 680 pages to cover just the first 20 years.
Alvis Society, A Century of Drivers
by David Culshaw
From kings to serial killers, people who chose an Alvis were a discerning lot. Every car ever made is recorded here, and only here.
Classic Speedsters
by Ronald Sieber
Speedster, Semi-Racer, Jack Rabbit, Raceabout, Cutdown? Or simply Roadster? All those names were used, and no matter what exactly they represent, they all apply to a “simple but powerful car meant for speed, fun, and adventure.”
Alfa Romeo Arese
by Patrick Dasse
An Arese is not an Alfa model but the name of the place where they were made, and this book contains hundreds of Alfa Romeo’s own archival photos of it.
Shelby American
by Preston Lerner
Surprise: Even after 60 years of tending the Shelby American orchard there remains unpicked fruit—long untold or misunderstood stories, and even stories that are firmly, and rightly embedded into the canon but had only been known in the version Shelby flogged.
50 First Victories, NASCAR Drivers’ Breakthrough Wins
by Al Pearce and Mike Hembree
There are plenty of good drivers who have good cars and work with good teams yet they just don’t catch a break and win. This books samples almost 70 years of US motorsports activity to relive that elusive first competition win.
Victor Morel and Antoine Joseph Grümmer
by Philippe Gaston Grümmer, Libourel, Friry
You can’t be into car design/styling without wanting to know where it all came from! Morel and Grümmer, his erstwhile employee then partner and successor, were among the leading lights of their day.
Maserati A6GCS
by Walter Bäumer and Jean-Francois Blachette
These small darty cars are as popular in historic racing now as they were in period. They were not cheap then and are shockingly expensive now so a book is a painless way of getting into a car of which Bäumer has become the foremost chronicler.
Alpine: The Quest For Absolute Agility
by Uzan & Fournier
Anyone who says the new Alpine A110 cribbed from the Porsche Cayman must not know anything about the original Alpine or understand that the new car started with a totally blank sheet. And if you heard one barreling down the road, you’d never mistake it for anything else. Alas, Americans won’t be so lucky. This fantastic book will make that loss only harder to bear.
My Friday Drives: Discovering the Letbelah Car Museum
by Jethro Bovingdon, Editor
Been to Qatar lately? The place has a reputation for a lot of things, but classic cars? It’s all changing, and this opulent books gives you one first long look at one of the biggest private car collections there.
100 Dream Cars: The Best of “My Ride”
by A.J. Baime
The title may not inspire much confidence but this book really has substance. And it is beautifully made—yet costs practically nothing. If you read the Wall Street Journal you already know what to expect, but the photos look waaaay better here!
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