Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
De Dion Bouton, An Illustrated Guide to Type & Specification 1905–1914
by Michael Edwards
They were the world’s largest automobile manufacturer in the early days. This book shows how trying to be everything to everyone is a heavy cross to bear—and can ruin you.
Remember Those Great Volkswagen Ads?
by Alfredo Marcantonio, David Abbott, John O’Driscoll
Hindsight is everything. What is now considered one of the greatest ad campaigns EVER was dismissed at the time by the very man who hatched it as a total mistake!
Auto-Mobilität – Wie der Mensch das Laufen verlernte
by Roland Löwisch
The history of the car and all the various bits that made it possible, from the taming of fire to the taming of animals to the invention of the wheel.
A formidable, illustrated reference book you’ll be picking up again and again. Even if you don’t speak German!
Il Cavallino Nel Cuore, Autobiography of a Designer
by Leonardo Fioravanti
From junior stylist to Managing Director at Pininfarina, high-level positions at Fiat and Ferrari, his own design-engineering-architecture firm—this fabulously illustrated book offers rich detail of a rich life.
Rocket and Jet Aircraft of the Third Reich
by Terry C. Treadwell
A popular subject these days—but this book won’t be! Too inaccurate.
Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696–1860
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
by Tredrea & Sozaev
Britannia may have ruled the waves although at the time Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson wrote his poem Rule, Britannia! in 1740 it was meant as an exhortation, something to aspire to, not a statement of fact.
Flying Boats of the Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Ships of the Sky
by Richard Knott
To make the far-flung corners of their empire accessible, the British built a flying boat called—Empire. A fleet of over 40 plied the skies for a decade, until something new and better took its place.
How to be a Good Motorist
by Harold Pemberton
Written in the 1920s this little book seeks to brief new drivers on road etiquette and basic knowledge about owning and operating a motorcar.
Motors Finest, Rolls-Royce and Bentley from the Seeger Collection
by Peter Müller
Soon this private collection will be open to the public but unless your travels take you to Liechtenstein, this book is the only way to see the cars all in one place.
The Lancaster and the Tirpitz
by Tony Iveson & Brian Milton
The subtitle calls only the bomber “legendary” but not the battleship? A good and necessary book but a bit one-sided.
Turbo 3.0, Porsche’s First Turbocharged Supercar
by Ryan Snodgrass
A truly important technological success, and not only for Porsche. Turbocharging is the way many hypercars go these days and this glorious book lays it all out.
Desert Boneyards: Retired Aircraft Storage Facilities in the U.S.
by Patrick Hoeveler, Adel Krämer
End-of-life questions are complicated, even for inanimate objects. Organ donor? Cremation? Cryogenics? Stuffed museum display? What happens to old aircraft when their glory days are past?
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