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2011 Motor Press Guild Awards Announced

The Motor Press Guild announced on 12/14 its 2011 recipients of the Dean Batchelor Award. “Elva” won in the books category.

New McLaren Books from Coterie Press

Coterie Press is offering an expanded third edition of McLaren, The Cars which now goes up to 2012 and includes the 2011 MP4-26 F1 car, as well as the new MP4-12C supercar that will be in the hands of the first lucky customers in 2012. The new book is cheaper ($49.95) than the 2009 edition we reviewed here!   A companion […]

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.

New & Improved Website!

Today, a new and improved SpeedReaders website is going live. It is completely redesigned and has much-enhanced functionality. Many of our US readers will be familiar with the Public Radio concept: no cost to the public — a minimum of advertising — made possible by the support of the people who use the service. More […]

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.

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