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Rolls-Royce Chassis Card Index
Vol 1: 40/50 HP (Ghost) plus very early cars
complied by Barrie Gillings
Anyone with an interest in the impact of the early motorcar on culture and society, early automobility, industrial history, or even a Who’s Who of the early 20th century will find in the almost 40,000 Rolls-Royce files on DVD an inexhaustible store of raw data.
The Corvette Factories, Building America’s Sports Car
by Mike Mueller
Mueller has scavenged the GM Media Archives and we are the better for it. His book is filled with more than 300 photos that start out to tell the story of the three factories that have built America’s sportscar, but in the end provide a detailed history of the famed fiberglass flyer.
Chassis 141, The Story of the First Le Mans Bentley
by Clare Hay
Hay has earned recognition as a pre-eminent chronicler of WO Bentleys from sweeping histories written about the Bentley firm during its early Cricklewood years. Painstakingly researched, these books are among the most definitive, respected canons of Bentley literature.
Rolls-Royce: Storia, technical e modelli
by Halwart Schrader
Did you know that in 1912 a Silver Ghost took part in the second edition of the Monte Carlo Rally? That car was the first Rolls-Royce ordered, bought, and owned by an Italian. And it started a love affair between the “Best Car In the World” and the country best known for low, red, uncomfortable, and noisy sportscars for middle-aged teenagers.
A Century of Automotive Style, 100 Years of American Car Design
by Michael Lamm & Dave Holls
When first released in 1996 the book garnered raves from everywhere and everyone. The automotive media heaped on still more praise—and now it is released as a searchable DVD.
Two classic books by Ken Purdy
This prolific freelance writer (1940s–1970s) edited magazines directed toward men including True and Argosy, writing authoritatively on many subjects, but is remembered primarily for his car-related material. It is no accident that the Award For Excellence in Automotive Journalism given by the International Motor Press Association is named after him.
British Racing Green: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of British Motor Racing
by David Venables
This is the first of several books in the “Racing Colours” series edited by the renowned Karl Ludvigsen. The book presents its topic organized by marque, one per chapter, for the proverbial “household” names. Several of the “lesser” ones are bundled together, ending with a four-page chapter bringing up the rear of the field.
Classic British Car Electrical Systems
by Rick Astley
Utter the word LUCAS and grown men will quake in their boots. Astley explains the reasons for Lucas’ market dominance and their relationship to Smiths, Rists, and Autolite—and that Lucas built to a price point: meaning you get what you pay for! So there.
The Scarlet Car
by Richard Harding Davis
This slim book first published in 1907 is certainly among the very earliest motoring stories. The characters and events are skillfully brought to life, jumping off the pages and into your mind even as you read. It is the sort of book that you can—and want—to devour in one sitting.
Eat Free or Die
by Kevin Clemens
Written by a bona fide, real-life, practicing, authentic, credential-carrying automotive journalist, this is a wild ride (that was just too easy!) of a novel which I read as a sort of slightly less-complicated, car-centricDaVinci Code. This fast-moving, turbocharged whodunit features the adventures of a super hot-shot automotive journo from a super hot-shot automotive magazine.
Zoom, The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
by I Carson and V. Vaitheeswaran
It is pretty clear that something has to change. The system of transportation that we have developed over the past 100 years—the one that is dependent of infinite amounts of cheap energy and two or even three new cars in every garage must come to an end in the not too distant future.
Magic Motors 1930
by Brooks T Brierley
One way to approach this book is to consider it as an essay in photos. The introduction states right away that the reader is “assumed to have some familiarity with the subject” and that the book is not meant to be “a comprehensive marque-by-marque history.”
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