Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
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!
Spada, The Long Story of a Short Tail
by Bart Lenaerts & Lies de Mol
The title sort of gives it away: Ercole Spada’s design career got underway with his interpretation of the truncated tail. Others did it too, he did it differently. At last there’s an entire—and supremely well designed—book about him.
F1: The Pinnacle, The Pivotal Events That Made F1 the Greatest Motorsport Series
by Tony Dodgins and Simon Arron
From technical and regulatory issues to people and places, this book connects those dots in time whose influence were not fleeting but gave form to what the sport is now and, more importantly, will be tomorrow.
Lost In Time – Formula 5000 in North America
by John Zimmermann
Even right now, today, Formula 1 is asking itself if there really is an audience for open-wheel single seaters in the US. The F5000 managers in the 1970s thought not and pulled the plug on an otherwise fully functioning racing series. By now, some people may have forgotten it ever existed.
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