Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Holy Halls: The Secret Vehicle Collection of Mercedes-Benz
by Christof Vieweg
This book won’t tell you where the 12 nondescript buildings are in which Mercedes-Benz stores its collection of over a thousand cars (!) but it shows you what’s in them. Your calculator will melt down trying to keep up with the tab!
Marcel Pourtout: Carrossier
by Jon Pressnell
One of the big names in French coachbuilding did so much more than the swoopy bespoke bodies people nowadays remember. What Pourtout did not do was keep good records. This book took a brave author to sort it all out.
Art Fitzpatrick & Van Kaufman, Masters of the Art of Automobile Advertising
by Rob Keil
Previously unpublished sketches, studies, and reference photos show two automotive artists and their team at work, thanks to unprecedented access to their archives
Time Flies: The History of PacWest Racing
by John Oreovicz
At the height of the CART era, PacWest Racing threw their hat into the ring. Who better to tell that story than a former team member. Even he admits that the rapid rise was as much of a surprise to him as the slightly slower but still irreversible decline.
Lost Muscle Car Dealerships
by Duncan S. Brown
A complete list of dealerships that once specced their own souped-up cars or sponsored customers’ race cars, if it were even possible to compile one, would number more than the 17 presented here. This book also includes Canadian ones.
The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World
by Bryan Appleyard
The car is dead. Long live the car. A new era is almost here and the days of the current one are definitely numbered. The modern world is unimaginable without the car, so let’s take a look at how it all played out.
Around the World in a Napier – the Story of Two Motoring Pioneers
by Andrew M. Jepson
Around the world in 80 days?? Nah. Make that six years—and 46,528 miles, and 39 countries. They literally went were no one had been before. And you can follow them here.
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Celebrating 70 Years of Automotive Excellence
It started in 1950 with thirty cars of which five belonged to one guy. And then it grew—how and why is what this book is about. Today a PBC trophy is a bucket list item, heck, even just attending as a spectator is.
Astonishing Stories Pilots Tell
by Robert N. Pripps
You’ve heard it: flying is hours and hours of absolute boredom interspersed by moments of sheer panic. The author has written three dozen books about farm tractors but his heart has always been in the clouds. He earned his pilot’s license half a century ago—plenty long to have picked up a few tales.
Freestone & Webb, 1923–1958
by James Taylor
“Top Hat” and “Razor Edge” were just some of the clever ideas this coachbuilder had up their sleeve, they won gold medals nine years in a row, and were among the last five big remaining firms. But bespoke coachwork went the way of the dodo bird and it is little consolidation that F&W went out in a blaze of glory.
Concept Cars of the 1960s: Yesterday’s Future
by Richard Heseltine
Heseltine’s premise is that the 1960s were prime time for the concept car, and gives ample evidence of it. The future then posed different questions than it does today so the 200 cars discussed here cover the whole spectrum from of-the-moment practicality to science fiction.
Detroit Steel Artists
by Matthew Kilkenny
Ray Dietrich probably designed more custom and semi-custom cars than any other designer of the Classic Car Era. This is the book about Dietrich and others and those cars.
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