Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Maserati 250F In Focus
by Anthony Pritchard
An iconic 1950s racecar, competent in its day but with an uncommonly complicated afterlife. Pritchard takes a competent stab at unraveling it.
My Lifetime in Motorsport
by S.C.H “Sammy” Davis
He lived a life colorful enough to require three versions of an autobiography! Racing driver, rallyist, motoring journalist, artist, cartoonist and man about town, he was one of the most popular and enduring figures in the history of British motorsport.
David Kimble’s Cutaways: Techniques and the Stories Behind the Art
by David Kimble
If you read about cars, you have seen Kimble’s work. His brilliant cutaways invite/require hours of study and really do show things no one could see this way on their own. Here he explains how he does it.
RAF In Camera: 1950s
by Keith Wilson
Both in terms of aviation technology and politics, the 1950s were a fertile period because of the transition from propeller to jet and the global changes in the balance of power. This photo album documents both.
Tyler Alexander: A Life and Times with McLaren
by Tyler Alexander
From mechanic to team boss, the author chronicles his life at a seminal team in an ever-changing sport.
Cars I Could’ve, Should’ve, Kept
by Jackson Brooks
Who hasn’t uttered those words? Still, this author has no regrets and is just grateful to have been their custodian for even a little while.
Cherry’s Model Engines, The Story of the Remarkable Cherry Hill
by David Carpenter
Can you picture yourself pouring years of work into building a fully functional miniature machine from scratch—not a toy, if you please—and then giving it away?? Cherry Hill has done it. Twenty times.
The Wankel Rotary Engine, A History
by John B. Hege
A simple design, compact size, light weight, nearly vibration-free operation . . . so why is no one using this engine? In the 1970s automakers were tripping over themselves to license it. This book explains what happened. Or didn’t.
A Chronology of Aviation
by Jim Winchester
A handy and solid overview of civil and military flight but, inevitable in a book this small, limited in scope.
Brighton Belles, A Celebration of Veteran Cars
by David Burgess-Wise
The famous London-Brighton run admits only cars from the very dawn of motoring, from the middle of the nineteenth century up until 1904. What started as a primitive horseless carriage would turn into a 100 mph monster within a few short years.
The Pininfarina Book
by Günther Raupp (editor)
Is there such a thing as quintessential Italian style? Pininfarina, now 85 years in business, says yes. This book is supposed to make the case.
Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War
by Elisabeth Shipton
Why did men not want women in the military? Because it would have given them the right to vote! Perish the thought. But when nations were in danger of perishing, society changed its mind. For a while.
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