Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
How to Build a Car
by Adrian Newey
If only really smart people can design race-winning cars then just how smart must someone be whose designs have won over 150 Grands Prix? An unexpectedly gifted writer, Newey reveals the man behind the cliché of the geeky designer in his ivory tower.
Bugatti Blue
by Lance Cole
About 100 miles northwest of London you’ll feel like a time traveller. First opened in 1938 you can still see the same cars competing here, six times a year. People who know come from near and far—but outside of England, few seem to.
Schlumpf
by Ard & Arnoud op de Weegh
In the 1970s, this was the story. Greedy industrialists pilfering their corporate treasury to buy classic cars instead of paying their employees’ wages and pensions. But is that what happened? This book presents an alternative version.
Streamliner
by John Wall
Combining salesmanship and media savvy, Loewy created brand images for major corporations but also made himself into a national brand through the assiduous courting of journalists and tastemakers to become the face of both a new profession and a consumer-driven vision of the American dream.
The Works MGs
by Mike Allison & Peter Browning
MGs were capable and therefore popular—and not super expensive to boot. No wonder they became the budding racer’s favorite mount. This book too has stood the test of time.
The Perfect Car
by Nick Skeens
If volatility of temperament is a measure of competence then Barnard should be counted a genius. And he is, because he really was. The exasperating perfectionist who cut down anyone and anything in his way makes for an intense story.
The Cadillac Northstar V-8, A History
by Anthony Young
First seen in the Pininfarina-designed Cadillac Allante, the technically complex Northstar has powered cars as diverse as grocery-getters and a Le Mans prototype. Phased out in 2011, without a direct replacement, this long-serving powerplant gets a good look here.
The Tasca Ford Legacy: Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday!
by Bob McClurg
How did Tasca become the premier Ford performance dealership in the US? By being way more than a retailer. Fielding their own race cars, developing their own performance parts, and offering excellent customer service gave them the sterling reputation that is the company’s currency even today.
The 1968 London to Sydney Marathon
by Robert Connor
Nothing like it had ever been done before. Spectators numbering in the millions observed it along its far-flung route, school children followed it with their fingers on the map. It was epic; and, finally, there’s a book about it.
Kings And I, My Life With Rolls-Royce Cars
by A. David (Lieberdavid) Burdoin
One man’s cars, why he liked them, what he did with them, and the people he met along the way. (No actual kings involved!)
Schweizer Carrossiers – Von den Anfängen bis 1970
by Ferdinand Hediger
Up to the WWII era no serious concours d’elegance would have been without examples of Swiss coachwork. Some of the names in this overview of select Swiss coachbuilders have become so obscure that they may well surprise even native readers.
For the Love of Old Cars: The Jack Passey Story
by Ken Albert
Too few people outside the hardcore collector community seem to know Jack Passey. He may be “Mr. Lincoln” but many other makes found in him a good custodian and early champion of the old-car movement.
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