Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
I Love to Make the DIRT FLY!
by Carl Hungness
Who was the man who “Created A Great City From A Jungle”? A serial entrepreneur who started a bicycle business, created multi-million dollar enterprises, and dreamt up the Indy 500.
Under the Spotlight
by Davide Bassoli
The mere mention of the words “Earls Court show car” in a For Sale ad is bound even today to raise a car’s profile because it would have been a tricked-out example of what all a coachbuilder or carmaker could do.
Mille Miglia, 1000 Miles of Passion
40 towns in 48 hours. Anyone with the right car and about €8500 can apply. Take a look at the 2014 event to see if this is for you.
Early Australian Automotive Design: The First Fifty Years
by Norm Darwin
The automotive industry is one of the most significant Australian industries of the twentieth century. It began around 1895—and only now is there a comprehensive account of the design side of it, not just overall styling but component/industrial design.
Building the Star of India
by David M. Cox
Would you be able to tell from the cover photo that this is a 22″-long model?? With thousands of parts, many fully functional? You do have to be a rocket scientist to build these things—or you have to know the fellow who wrote this book and can build yours.
British Armoured Car Operations In World War One
by Bryan Perrett
WW I was the first conflict to see widespread use of mechanization, a threshold hybrid stage where horse, camel, and mule fought alongside car, tank, and airplane. All except the latter are discussed here.
Ikarus: Busse für die Welt
by Christian Suhr
If you like busses, you’ll want to know about Ikarus from Hungary and this is about the only book to do the job. From China to Canada, you may have ridden in one and not even known it!
Porsche 930 to 935: The Turbo Porsches
by John Starkey
If the book title sounds familiar it is because this is now the third edition. The previous ones quickly sold out but they had the field pretty much to themselves. Not anymore.
Intermeccanica: The Story of the Prancing Bull (rev. 2nd ed.)
Andrew McCredie & Paula Reisner
Having the good sense to work with skilled designers, Reisner turned out five attention-getting cars in 13 years. Half a century later Intermeccanica still turns out high-quality hand-built vehicles.
Ultra-Large Aircraft 1940–1970
by William Patrick Dean
“Volumetric fuselage aircraft”—if that’s not a word you normally use in a sentence, read this book to get insights into a very complicated subject and some very unusual aircraft.
Classic Grand Prix Cars
by Karl Ludvigsen
Why and how—and when—did F1 shift from front- to rear-engined racers? Back in print now this book offers the sort of in-depth analysis that has made Ludvigsen’s name.
Porsche: Origin of the Species
by Karl Ludvigsen
Don’t be distracted by the various models of Porsche the company throws at the market in order to have “something for everyone”—at the core there is a discernible bloodline. Ludvigsen shows the connections and unearthed new ones.
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