Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Alfa Romeo SZ Coda Tronca: The Art of Conservation

by Corrado Lopresto, Gautam Sen, Paolo Di Taranto

Important car, important collector, important decisions how/if to preserve or restore it.

De Dion Bouton, The Veteran Years 1899–1904 

by Michael Edwards

The innovative marque already had plenty of experience with things mechanical before it popularized the motorcar in France and helped established its auto industry. The well-built cars were expensive even in their home market. And then the American imports came.

Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s

by Anne Morrissy

You’ll never look at a taxi cab the same. Next time you hail one, just be glad that no one is likely to shoot at you because of it. A hundred years ago . . . different story, at least in Chicago.

Cadillac 1970–1979, An Era of American Automotive Opulence

by Robert S. Newbrough

Once upon a time, owning a Cadillac was a big deal. The decade being visited here definitely qualifies but US emissions and safety regulations plus shifting consumer preferences meant big, comfortable cruisers were on their way out.

1 of 1 Muscle Cars: Stories of Detroit’s Rarest Iron

by Wes Eisenschenk

Some cars were only ever built as a singular specimen, others ended up solo acts because no other survivors are known. Either way, chances of seeing one in the wild are slim so this book brings 37 examples to you.

Nash-Healey, A Grand Alliance

by Nikas and Chevalier

If you know the marque, you know that there has not been a prior book. If you don’t, this one will take you into a much deeper rabbit hole than just those cars. And if you appreciate intelligent writing and good design you will see here just how much is achievable.

The Evolution of Automotive Technology: A Handbook

by Gijs Mom

Different cultures produce different tech. What?? That’s just one of the points this academic text makes, enlisting 125 years of global automobile history to describe the mutually dependent development of technology and society. From engineering to driver behavior, nothing escapes scrutiny.

McLaren: The Road Cars, 2010–2024

by Kyle Fortune

Most carmakers build road cars to finance their racing effort. McLaren went the other way. With full access to their archives and personnel, along with driving impressions by automotive journalists, this book seems to tick so many boxes that even company insiders say they learned something.

Trophy Girl 

by Marlis Manley

A historic novel, centered around the first national race for stock cars at Taft Stadium in Oklahoma City in July 1957, written by an author whose dad really was the first Grand National Champion.

The Graham-Bradley Tractor, A History

by Michael E. Keller

The Graham Bradley was was considered a rich man’s tractor in the late 1930. Less than 2300 were built over its 3-year production and no more than 500 survive. Here the story is told in the context of American agriculture and overall industrialization.

As a Matter of Fact, I Am Parnelli Jones

by Parnelli Jones with Bones Bourcier

Told by the protagonist as much as by his peers this memoir paints a rich picture of the people, cars, and venues in American racing of the 1960s and ‘70s in a sometimes feisty and always engaging manner.

Design & Desire

by Keith Helfet

A flat mountain top took such strong hold of young Helfet’s emotions that he felt moved to train as a designer—and found his calling, and a quarter-century gig at Jaguar. This book was originally intended as a private affair for only family and friends; thank goodness someone convinced him otherwise.

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