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Motorama: GM’s Legendary Show & Concept Cars

by David W. Temple

In the 1950s and ‘60s, if you couldn’t make it to the car show, GM would bring its cars to a big city near you in the form of a rolling auto show replete with specially made “dream cars” for just this event.

Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 30

by Bruno Schmäling & Winfried Bock

This first book of a new series shows a different—and better—approach to working from primary sources and focuses on the human story behind early military aviation.

The Top Gear Story

by Martin Roach

It’s not really possibly to be into cars and not know Top Gear. Which is not to say you’ll like it . . . it’s loud, too often offensive, sometimes racist. But the stunts—the editing—even the music, everything shows a deft command of the medium.

Show Rod Model Kits: A Showcase of America’s Wildest Model Kits

by Scotty Gosson

The wacky world of wacky kit cars is on full display here. Hot rods were once on the fringe—now they’re at Pebble Beach. Kit building is a great hobby, especially if you have the skills to color outside the lines.

Velocity: Heroes of American Auto Racing

by Pete Lyons

Twelve men that made a difference—for twelve months in which YOU will make a difference, right? Be inspired, learn something, look at pretty pictures. Go.

Turning Silver into Gold/Aus Silber wird Gold – 2014

by Hartmut Lehbrink

The silver Mercedes racers won the gold in 2014, the first time the works team won F1 top honors ever. The team won a whole bunch of other awards too so there was much to celebrate, and this is the official M-B “party book”—in more ways than one.

Porsche 918 Spyder

by Bogner, Pander, Peitzmeier

The technical specs of this hypercar are as mind-boggling as the sheer novelty of its technology. But more than that, much more than that, all the things that made this car possible that can’t be quantified on a spreadsheet really matter here. This book tries to capture that.

Boulton Paul Defiant

by Mark Ansell

What’s that behind the cockpit? And why are there things sticking out at the bottom? The Defiant is an interesting bit of kit with an undeservedly poor reputation.

Jacques Saoutchik – Maître Carrossier, Vol. 4 Addendum

by Peter M. Larsen & Ben Erickson

Only a few months earlier, the authors finished an 1100-page book on this subject, thinking, hoping that everything anyone would ever want to know had been recorded. And then wild and crazy things started coming out of the woodwork, hence this Addendum.

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15

by Dariusz Karnas

Primarily intended as a reference for model builders this book shows you were every rivet is and the differences between versions. Some basic history is provided and dozens of color profiles demand attentive study.

Finnish Fighter Colours 1939–1945, Vol. 1

by Kari Stenman & Karolina Hołda

Finnish color schemes, yes. Finnish aircraft, no. This book is all about Western aircraft in the Finnish Air Force. They flew Russian ones too but they’ll be covered in Vol. 2.

Lamborghini: 100 Years of Innovation in Half the Time

by Luca Molinari & Raffaello Porro (editors)

A celebration of fifty years of Automobili Lamborghini. Splendidly illustrated, several writers from the design world discuss the cars in the context of whatever it is that constitutes Stilo Italiano.

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