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On a Global Mission, The Automobiles of General Motors International, Vol. 2 

by Louis Fourie

This second volume of three takes us to still other locations around the globe including Australia, South America, South Africa, South Korea and China by exploring Holden, Daewoo and unique Chevrolet, Buick, and Opel variants.

Classic Speedsters

by Ronald Sieber

Speedster, Semi-Racer, Jack Rabbit, Raceabout, Cutdown? Or simply Roadster? All those names were used, and no matter what exactly they represent, they all apply to a “simple but powerful car meant for speed, fun, and adventure.”

Alfa Romeo Arese

by Patrick Dasse

An Arese is not an Alfa model but the name of the place where they were made, and this book contains hundreds of Alfa Romeo’s own archival photos of it.

On a Global Mission, The Automobiles of General Motors International, Vol. 1 

by Louis Fourie

Everyone everywhere has heard of General Motors—but probably by a different name. Each volume in this trilogy will present brands/model lines offered in specific countries. Nothing else comes even close to being comparable in scope to this trilogy.

Shelby American

by Preston Lerner

Surprise: Even after 60 years of tending the Shelby American orchard there remains unpicked fruit—long untold or misunderstood stories, and even stories that are firmly, and rightly embedded into the canon but had only been known in the version Shelby flogged.

Art, Architecture and the Automobile, Presented by Gilmore Car Museum

by David Lyon

Beautifully produced and covering an incredible number of vehicles 1886 to 2016, this exquisitely illustrated book places each in the context of its time. What more superlatives might be added wouldn’t be nearly as attention-grabbing as its affordability!

Victor Morel and Antoine Joseph Grümmer

by Philippe Gaston Grümmer, Libourel, Friry

You can’t be into car design/styling without wanting to know where it all came from! Morel and Grümmer, his erstwhile employee then partner and successor, were among the leading lights of their day.

Maserati A6GCS

by Walter Bäumer and Jean-Francois Blachette

These small darty cars are as popular in historic racing now as they were in period. They were not cheap then and are shockingly expensive now so a book is a painless way of getting into a car of which Bäumer has become the foremost chronicler.

Alpine: The Quest For Absolute Agility

by Uzan & Fournier

Anyone who says the new Alpine A110 cribbed from the Porsche Cayman must not know anything about the original Alpine or understand that the new car started with a totally blank sheet. And if you heard one barreling down the road, you’d never mistake it for anything else. Alas, Americans won’t be so lucky. This fantastic book will make that loss only harder to bear.

My Friday Drives: Discovering the Letbelah Car Museum

by Jethro Bovingdon, Editor 

Been to Qatar lately? The place has a reputation for a lot of things, but classic cars? It’s all changing, and this opulent books gives you one first long look at one of the biggest private car collections there.

Corvette Concept Cars, Developing America’s Favorite Sports Car 

by Scott Kolecki

The first show car generated so much interest that mass production started only a few months later and that first year it was only available in white and as a convertible. Seventy uninterrupted years later it’s available in all sorts of flavors, and still GM’s halo car.

100 Dream Cars: The Best of “My Ride”

by A.J. Baime

The title may not inspire much confidence but this book really has substance. And it is beautifully made—yet costs practically nothing. If you read the Wall Street Journal you already know what to expect, but the photos look waaaay better here!

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