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Shenanigans: Lifting the Hood on General Motors

by Arnold O’Byrne

The author rose from accounts clerk to senior executive at GM and in his role as in-house auditor laid bare corruption, dishonesty, and disrespect at GM Ireland. This autobiography tells it like it is.

Motorsports and American Culture

by Mark D. Howell & John D. Miller (eds)

Are motorsports relevant to the culture at large? Essays from a diverse range of contributors look for answers from the late nineteenth century to the present—but other cultures may well have different answers.

Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895–1940

by Gijs Mom

Written by an academic for a scholarly audience this book investigates why, among the various modes of transport, it was the car that established itself as dominant, and its geographic spread.

Red Dust Racers

by Graeme Cocks

You may not have heard of the place—described in the 1920s and ‘30s as one of the best natural racing surfaces in the world and a history stretching back over 100 years—but you will have heard of the cars, mostly British and American.

The Spectre Arise

by Steve Stuckey

Introduced in 1936 and drawing on the firm’s aero engine expertise the P III was to defend Rolls-Royce’s honor in the “battle of the cylinders.” It is considered the first modern Rolls-Royce, with all the pros and cons this entails. This book has no cons but there aren’t many copies to go around.

The Road to Monaco—My Life in Motor Racing

by Howden Ganley

F1 mechanic, F1 driver, journalist, constructor of his own race car—Ganley has been around. As employee No. 3 at McLaren he was there when the floors were dirt and the chassis stand a wooden crate. Lives like this are uncommon, and so are good books about them.

Aspects of Motoring History

by Malcolm Jeal (ed.)

This annual publication by the SAH’s UK branch covers a wide range of subjects, many of which too esoteric to be examined by anyone else.

Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental

by André Blaize

Introduced in 1930, the P II Continental was a supremely capable and stylish car. Only 279 were made and every one is covered in these excellent books.

Carriages to Cars

by Steve Bradford-Best

British country coachbuilder Ralph E. Sanders & Sons were active from around 1900 to the 1930s. Long overlooked by the motoring writer they are now introduced into the record by a local boy.

The Silver Ghost: A Supernatural Car

by Jonathan Harley

This is the Rolls-Royce model that made the company famous and without which it would not be existing today. The author specializes in Silver Ghost restoration and this book tells its and his shop’s story.

Montier’s French Racing Fords

by Chris Martin

Carroll Shelby wasn’t the first to take Ford to Le Mans, French Ford dealer Charles Montier was—forty years earlier, in the form of a hopped-up Model T!

WO Bentley Rotary Aero Engines

by Tom Dine

The man that did Britain proud in motor racing with his eponymous cars also designed engines for tanks and airplanes and made significant contributions to the very early days of flight.

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