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

On and Off the Flight Deck: Reflections of a Naval Fighter Pilot in World War II

by Henry A Adlam

If your eyes are glazing over at being proffered yet another memoir of WWII flyboy derring-do, relax, this one is different.

The Competition Bicycle: The Craftsmanship of Speed (Rizzoli ed.)

by Jan Heine & Jean-Pierre Pradères

The evolution of board, road, mountain, and touring competition bikes told in excellent photos and thorough text.

The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit

by Michael Cannell

This book explores the cost of winning. Of the two top contenders, one died and the one who won no one seemed to care about.

Frontline and Experimental Flying with the Fleet Air Arm

by Geoffrey R Higgs

A British naval flyer relates his 35 years of service at the controls of 100 different aircraft, from single-engine propeller plane to multi-engine jet.

The Brescia Bugatti

by Bob King

The most-built Bugatti is the least-written about—until now. This book presents known survivors and their history.

Motor Movies – The Posters!

by Paul Veysey

From starring role to bit part, automobiles are inseparable from movies. This book offers a look at the poster art and publicity campaigns.

Formula 1 Technology

by Peter G Wright

Power, Weight, Tire Grip, Drag and Lift—understand any of these and you’re pretty smart. Understand all of them and you’ll see why a racecar at speed can cling to the roof of a tunnel upside down and not fall off.

Fall of Eagles, Airmen of World War One

by Alex Revell

By portraying the men at the controls, and using their own voices real and imagined, this book hits a nerve that dry stats do not.

Fleetwood, The Company & the Coachcraft

by James J. Schild

If all you associate with the name “Fleetwood” is “Cadillac” you are overdue for this book! That connection did not come about until after the Fisher brothers bought Fleetwood in 1925 and made it part of the GM empire.

Shelby Cobra Fifty Years

by Colin Comer

50 years ago, Carroll Shelby contacted British specialist manufacturer AC Cars to build him a car, but with an American V8 engine he was going to supply. This book recaps the history of an American icon.

Custom Motorcycles

by Miquel Tres with Claudia Matheja

A custom motorcycle is a very visible, and often very expensive, way of telling the world you’re different. In a world full of mass-market, cookie-cutter consumer goods anything custom is certainly worth a closer look.