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The Heroes We Needed

The B-29ers Who Ended World War II and My Fight to Save the Forgotten Stories of the Greatest Generation

by Trevor McIntyre

This is not another color-within-the-lines aircraft history. If you have an imagination, it’ll hit you were it hurts. And, sure, you’ll learn plenty.

Mustang: 60 Years

by Donald Farr

Now in its seventh generation, the Mustang has been in continuous production since 1964. More importantly, it has remained the “type” of car it started as—although it did have its bloated periods—with only the Mach-E departing entirely from form.

Porsche Racing Cars: 2006 to 2023

by Brian Long

The latest installment in this trilogy picks up the story when Porsche resumed motorsports activities after a few low-profile years and considers both works and customer contenders.

When Wedge had the Edge

by Gautam Sen

Not every car design that is pointy on one end and thick on the other qualifies as a wedge. If this is news to you, or if you thought wedge styling had its moment half a century ago and was then relegated to the margins of history, read this book.

Art of the Automobile in Miniature

by Gerald Amery Wingrove

It’s not surprising to learn that this master model maker started out as a lathe operator. What is surprising are the heights he reached, and the prices his work commands.

Motorcycle Passion

by Michael Köckritz, editor

A big, juicy book. Lots of photos. Interesting layouts and typefaces. It’s easy to put this book down and think, Why? As in Why Bother? Not so fast.

I Worked on Spitfires

The Memoirs of a Member of RAF Groundcrew and his Part in the Victory in Europe

by Ronald L. Chapman

Even after all these decades since WWII ended there are still new voices to shed light on increasingly forgotten things, in this case the foreign pilots who fled countries that had fallen to the Germans offering their services to the RAF.

Against All the Others: Porsche’s Racing History, Volume 1 – 1968

by Randy Leffingwell

Porsche has participated in tens of thousands of motorsports events over the years so you can’t be surprised that it will take multiple books to cover them. Here is Volume 1. Prepare to be impressed.

Porsche Outlaws: Stuttgart Hot Rods

by Michael Alan Ross

Porsches are surely not the first marque that comes to mind when the conversation turns to hot rods. But making a car faster, cooler, and better-handling appeals to any gearhead, and once one person starts, things might just grow into a veritable movement.

Jacques Saoutchik, Maître Carrossier: 1948 Talbot-Lago Grand Sport Chassis 110101

by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson

A car with a great story, and a book with a great story. A car with a forensic restoration, and a book with forensic research. Things like this don’t happen every day.

DeLorean: The Rise, Fall, and Second Acts of the DeLorean Motor Company

by Matt Stone

Big title for a small book. It doesn’t answer all questions and in a way doesn’t even ask all of them—but it does connect many dots and it certainly shines a light on the multitude of external factors the auto industry, not just boutique makers, faced in the Eighties.

Lola GT: The DNA of the Ford GT40

by John Starkey

This book fills a gap in the timeline between Ford getting snubbed by Ferrari and finding a new partner with whom to build race cars. Lola already had their own prototype bolted together, and Ford made them a deal. The rest is history—except the telling of that history has been incomplete.

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