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

The Pucará Story

by Ricardo Caballero, Phil Cater

Still in production after some 45 years, and still only airplane insiders know and appreciate this little multi-role machine. For the first time in English, a proper book gathers all you need to know.

Zeppelin: the Story of the Zeppelin Airships

by Hans Georg Knäusel

For almost forty years, Zeppelins glided through the skies. How they got there and how they suffered extinction at the very height of their technical perfection is the story here.

The Book of the Ferrari 288 GTO

by Joe Sackey

Unless you’re made of money you won’t be able to buy a 288. But if you buy this book you can read the actual owner’s manual, see how the custom luggage hugs the trunk just so, and count the fins on the valve cover. Oh, and learn its story.

Warhol and Cars, American Icons

by Gail Stavitsky

Andy Warhol put his mind, and his brush, to all sorts of consumer goods. Would the images in this museum show resonate if they were not by a famous, iconic, controversial artiste?

311 Squadron

by Pavel Vančata

A number of foreign nations fought with the British in WWII. Here Czech bomber crews serving in the RAF get a nod.

Automotive Jewelry

by Michael Furman

Commentary by historians, designers, authors, collectors and curators accompanies a selection of superb photos by someone who divines the essence of a car and knows how to photograph it.

The Ferrari Book

by Günther Raupp

And lead us not into temptation . . . an irresistible book for anyone who appreciates photography. Even if you’re not a Ferrari guy/gal.

Still Life with Cars, An Automotive Memoir

by John L. Lumley

A life with cars is anything but “still,” as these entertaining vignettes prove. You recognize yourself in Lumley’s trials and tribulations—and triumphs.

Ultimate Car Collector Guide

by James J. Schild

“Everything you want to know about car collecting but were afraid to ask!” Or, in the case of the novice hobbyist, didn’t know to ask. The author has been there/done that so that you may profit from his experience!

Tricycles, Quadricycles and Light Cars 1894–1907: A Forgotten History

by Aldo Carrer

Tons of photos—but little else—of the earliest of the early days of mobility. From vehicles to buildings to fashion, you’re “not in Kansas anymore.”

Autowork

by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth (Editors) 

What’s life like on the “inside” for the men and women who make cars in the US? From the early days up to the 1980s, these essays paint a not so rosy picture of the conditions at work and, by extension, at home.

The 1924 Coolidge-Dawes Lincoln Tour

by Larry Krug

Eyewitness accounts from an epic US presidential campaign that covered thousands of miles by road, involved over 100,000 vehicles, and reached millions of people—in 1924, when passable roads where still a novelty.

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