Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Kidnap of the Flying Lady: How Germany Captured Both Rolls-Royce & Bentley
by Richard Feast
A catchy title—that makes sense only to people who already know the story. Or think they know. Fact is, it will be another few decades before the material facts of this episode will become unsealed.
Elva: The Cars, The People, The History
by János Wimpffen
This exhaustive book is surely the last word on the subject of the little English car with the French name that willed it to go, which it did, but for only ten years.
The New Cunard Queens
by Nils Schwerdtner
If you encounter an ocean liner these days whose name has the prefix Queen you know you’re looking at a Cunarder. This book offers a look at the famous company’s history and its three current flagships.
Watkins Glen, the Street Years 1948–1952
by Phillipe Defechereux
People who like round numbers will know that the year this book was published—2011—was the 50th anniversary of the first Formula 1 Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. That was 1961, by which time The Glen had been successfully hosting races for over a decade.
Steve McQueen: A Passion for Speed
by Frédéric Brun
To an American reader a book written from a foreigner’s perspective about a quintessential American icon is often as revealing as it is disconcerting—the two being different sides of the same coin.
Sports Car Racing in the South: Texas to Florida, 1957–1958
by Willem Oosthoek
To the serious student of racing in the US, this book and its two future companions will be inevitable purchases. To the more casual reader it won’t be the hard data so much as the abundance of photos that will make this acquisition worthwhile.
Art of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle
by D Blattel & D Gingerelli
This is first and foremost a photo book. If you’ve had Harleys on your brain for a while it is almost not possible not to have encountered photographer Blattel’s images before.
Bugatti (Hawley)
by Hawley, des Cordes, Mishne
From stone masonry to automobiles this catalog of a museum show looks at the artistic output of the entire Bugatti clan across three generations.
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Porsche: The Sports Racing Cars 1953–72
by Anthony Pritchard
This book covers Porsche’s air-cooled, rear-engined competition models from the 550 to the 917. It also includes F2 and 1 cars because of their connection to the cars in the WSC Championship and GT Prototype classes but it excludes the 911 (except for the 911R) because it is not a dedicated competition model.
The Airplane: A History of Its Technology
by John D Anderson Jr.
Almost all such books begin with the Wright brothers—not the first to fly and certainly not the inventors of the airplane—and it is ironic to consider that none other than Wilbur W. once ruminated, in a fit of despair: “Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!”
Delage, France’s Finest Car
by Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise
“The Beautiful French Car” is not a slogan cooked up by a clever press person but an accolade given by the public. The serious literature on this marque is quite thin and this book goes a long way toward painting a definitive picture of the entire lifespan of the company, not just the glamour decade from the late 1920s onwards.
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