Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Inside Marine One
by Ray L’Heureux
From building kit models to ferrying the Chief Executive of the United States, Frenchy L’Heureux’s life in aviation has put him where the front-page news took place, but behind the scenes.
Drone Strike!
by Bill Yenne
Drone activities may be in the news a lot but in fact much remains—and rightly so given their purpose—behind closed doors. Yenne’s book is an excellent primer not only on what drones are capable of but how they fit into the arsenal.
Bugatti Blue, Prescott and the Spirit of Bugatti
by Lance Cole
About 100 miles northwest of London you’ll feel like a time traveller. First opened in 1938 you can still see the same cars competing here, six times a year. People who know come from near and far—but outside of England, few seem to.
Schlumpf
by Ard & Arnoud op de Weegh
In the 1970s, this was the story. Greedy industrialists pilfering their corporate treasury to buy classic cars instead of paying their employees’ wages and pensions. But is that what happened? This book presents an alternative version.
The Works MGs
by Mike Allison & Peter Browning
MGs were capable and therefore popular—and not super expensive to boot. No wonder they became the budding racer’s favorite mount. This book too has stood the test of time.
The 1968 London to Sydney Marathon
by Robert Connor
Nothing like it had ever been done before. Spectators numbering in the millions observed it along its far-flung route, school children followed it with their fingers on the map. It was epic; and, finally, there’s a book about it.
Kings And I, My Life With Rolls-Royce Cars
by A. David (Lieberdavid) Burdoin
One man’s cars, why he liked them, what he did with them, and the people he met along the way. (No actual kings involved!)
Schweizer Carrossiers – Von den Anfängen bis 1970
by Ferdinand Hediger
Up to the WWII era no serious concours d’elegance would have been without examples of Swiss coachwork. Some of the names in this overview of select Swiss coachbuilders have become so obscure that they may well surprise even native readers.
For the Love of Old Cars: The Jack Passey Story
by Ken Albert
Too few people outside the hardcore collector community seem to know Jack Passey. He may be “Mr. Lincoln” but many other makes found in him a good custodian and early champion of the old-car movement.
Wings of the Weird and Wonderful
by Eric M. “Winkle” Brown
He’s flown more aircraft than anyone else and has all sorts of records to his name. The 53 aircraft he found the most memorable are discussed here.
The First Beetle: Resurrecting a 1938 Prototype
by Becker, Struwe, Grundmann
Over twenty millions of these things had been built. What are the odds that a genuine prototype of this quintessential throwaway car would have survived 70 years? It did, and this is the story of its recommissioning.
Under the Spotlight
by Davide Bassoli
The mere mention of the words “Earls Court show car” in a For Sale ad is bound even today to raise a car’s profile because it would have been a tricked-out example of what all a coachbuilder or carmaker could do.
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