Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
The Complete Bentley
by Eric Dymock
By the time of this book’s writing, 101 models had been built over some 90 years and they’re all in this lavishly illustrated book.
The Roycean: From Manchester to Crewe, via Derby, No. 6
by Tom Clarke, Will Morrison eds.
The Roycean, now in its sixth year, is an annual journal containing scholarly articles by a number of contributors on arcane but fascinating aspects of the history of Rolls-Royce and (Derby- and Crewe-built) Bentley motorcars up to the 1960s.
The Ride: New Custom Motorcycles And Their Builders
by Chris Hunter, Robert Klanten editors
Motorcycles with attitude. From one-off cost-no-object confections to creatively stroked basic Honda S90s this book offers a global look at new philosophies and old skills.
Finnish Fighter Colours 1939–1945, Vol. 2
by Kari Stenman & Karolina Hołda
A mass of information you’ll not easily find elsewhere, especially if you’re a modeler looking for ideas and definitive exactitude. While Finland had to buy its aircraft from other nations, there’s one domestic product here (and it really deserved to be on the cover!).
Aircraft of World War I, 1914–1918
by Jack Herris & Bob Pearson
Illustrated with detailed artwork of aircraft and markings this little book packs a punch belying its size. Anyone new to this fascinating subject will find it a competent guide.
The Chopper, The Real Story
by Paul d’Orléans
There are piles of books about choppers and motorcycle culture; none are like this one. If you recognize the bike on the cover even from this angle—that’s both good and bad . . . the book explains why.
Fall of the Flying Dragon: South Vietnamese Air Force 1973–75
by Albert Grandolini
After the US started to pull out in 1973, how did the numerically superior local forces they left in charge manage to lose the war? Drawing on new material this excellent book offers new—and very different—answers.
Total Performers: Ford Drag Racing in the 1960s
by Charles R. Morris
If you think a Velvet Brute is an umbrella drink you’d better read this book, quick. Written by someone who drove those cars in that decade the book offers an authentic look at a very unusual era marked, not least, by a Chevy v Ford debate on full boil.
Professor Porsche’s Wars
by Karl Ludvigsen
Ferdinand Porsche’s very successes had the unintended consequence of making him an increasingly indispensable national asset. This proximity to power kept his order books full, but at what cost?
The Early Days
by Davide Bassoli
Focusing on the launch year of the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud/Bentley S Series this unusual book takes the reader back to 1955 to experience the car as a contemporary would have. People who like to “play” with books are in for a surprise!
Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races 1953–1962
by Terry O’Neil
At long last here’s another missing piece to the puzzle that is the not undramatic and certainly not painless shift from amateur to pro racing in the US.
Vânator – Romanian Hunter
by Radu Brînzan
“The Most Famous Fighter You Never Heard Of.” Historians, modelers, aviation folk: Now you can explore this elegant machine in what the subtitle rightly calls “Ultimate Detail.”
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