Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Dino – The V6 Ferrari

by Brian Long

For a few years now, the GT version of this late 1960s car is making everyone who once derided it as an inferior Ferrari look foolish and requires larger and larger checks to buy. If one is in your future, this book is a must.

De Tomaso, From Buenos Aires to Modena

by Daniele Pozzi


In every regard, de Tomaso had a full and complicated life, his exotic road cars were more practical and no less sexy than others but remained marginalized anyway, he was a wheeler-dealer in the best and the worst sense—this book sorts some of it out.

Sukhoi Su-24

by Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov

Pick any three current conflicts from the news and chances are someone is operating this now 45-year-old aircraft in anger. What makes the Fencer so capable for so long? From micro to macro detail, this book answers everything.

Goodwood: Revival, Members’ Meeting, Festival of Speed

by Knut Gielen

Any of the three Goodwood events are pretty much bucket list items. If you’ve never been, this book is a splendid way to see what it’s all about. If you have, ditto, because you couldn’t possibly have seen everything there is to see

Antique and Classic Cars, Vol. 2

by Richard C. Wheatley & Brian Morgan

When this book came out half a century ago, the driver had to be smart where the car wasn’t. If a manual choke or a crash gearbox have you confused, this book tells of positively alien things.

Alfa Romeo: View From the Mouth of the Dragon

by S. Scott Callan

A history of . . . well, many things, among them Alfa Romeo. But that’s almost the least noteworthy bit about this – – – let’s call it a book and get on with it.

Men of the Battle of Britain

by Kenneth G. Wynn

Some 3,000 men denied the German Luftwaffe air superiority over Britain and thereby changed the war and the world. This monumental book records each of their stories and particulars.

Paint Locker Magic: A History of Naval Aviation Special Markings and Artwork

by William Tate & Jim Meehan

There are lots of books about nose art—this one takes a completely unexpected tack and explores, among other things, why naval aircraft have fewer decorations than those of other services.

Carrera RS

by Thomas Gruber and Georg Konradsheim

If the car is hard to find these days, try finding the first edition of this epic book! This book was and is a reference-level opus, so don’t miss it again.

Bentley – The Vintage Years, Vols. 1, 2, 3

by Clare Hay

A supreme accomplishment in terms of research by the foremost living Bentley scholar, this phenomenal third edition is a beg/borrow/steal proposition for the Cricklewood crowd.

Škoda Superb, A New Era

by Lewandowski, Zimmer, Peitzmeier

Škoda has been around for 120 years. This book showcases their flagship model.

Gilles Villeneuve: His Untold Life From Berthierville to Zolder

by Károly Méhes

Even thirty years after his death one doesn’t have to look hard for memories and memorials to the well-liked GP driver. Impressions from his contemporaries are gathered here to shed light on the phenomenon.

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