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Fast Company: Six Decades of Racers, Rascals and Rods

by Speedy Bill Smith with Dave Argabright

By the time you’ve walked this earth for 80 years, you’ve seen (and maybe even learned) a thing or two. Even better (for us) is if you’ve a story to tell and the ability to do that telling.

Porsche Showroom Posters: The First 25 Years

by Everett Anton Singer

Historically, Porsche has actively used graphics and visual aids to promote its racing successes along with its charismatic line of road-going sportscars, particularly in its early years

Hot Rods and Custom Cars: Los Angeles and the Dry Lakes, The Early Years

by Ken Gross and Robert Ames

Featuring period photos from the 1940s and ’50s by Strother MacMinn, a fixture in the world of auto design, on his stomping ground.

Phil Hill: Yankee Champion, First American to Win the Driving Championship of the World

by William F Nolan

Originally published in 1962 and out of print long enough to be worth some serious money in the collectable-book marketplace, this is a revised, updated and enhanced edition.

Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend

by Miranda Seymour

The protagonist of this book went from 1920s nude model, ballerina, and cabaret dancer to race driver, becoming the “fastest woman in the world.”

Paul Frère, My Life Full of Cars: Behind the Wheel with the World’s Top Motoring Journalist

by Paul Frère

He drove in eleven F1 GPs. Teamed with fellow Belgian Olivier Gendebien, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Ferrari in 1960. He had an influence on three generations of automotive writers and here you can read why and how.

Walter Röhrl Diary: Memories of a World Champion

by Röhrl, Müller, Klein

“I didn’t really know why I was so fast and it didn’t really interest me.” Not exactly the words one would expect from the 1980 and 1982 World Rally Champion, a veritable legend in his field who was voted by his peers Driver of the Millennium (2000).

Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their Work

by Ronald Barker, Anthony Harding (Editors)

The book is a collection of biographical essays of 12 designers of whose work the authors say “the current state of the art owes a lot to the knowledge which other designers have absorbed from them.”

Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything

by Stephen Bayley

Everything about this book, inside and out, is “designerly”. It is not an automotive history, nor is it in any way “nuts-and-bolts” as both author and publisher attempt respectively to make clear in the book’s introduction and press material.

Bristol Cars: A Very British Story

by Christopher Balfour

Bristols are rarely mentioned by people outside of GB and especially in the same breath with other luxury British marques. However the firm does rank right up there in the lofty heights as makers of hand-built, limited-production, super luxury machines.

Wheels of Dreams: Vintage Cars and the People Who Love Them

by Tom Strongman

Strongman is a semi-retired newspaperman and his ability to get the story proves the value of such training. Beyond his words however, are the images of his color photography, which is beautifully and artfully displayed throughout the book’s 123 pages.

Peking to Paris, 100th Anniversary Edition

by Luigi Barzini

Barzini was a newspaper reporter by profession and war correspondent, but more than that—as this book attests—he’s a terrific storyteller with a terrific story to tell. He was along on every one of the 8,000 miles on two roadless continents in 1907.

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