Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Bonneville: A Century of Speed
by David Fetherston and Ron Main
The mythic salt flats have played an important role in motorsports for over a hundred years. This book is meant to celebrate and promote it, and back up the myth with hard data but, much like the salt itself, it has difficulties yielding a smooth, straight run.
Il Cavallino Nel Cuore, Autobiography of a Designer
by Leonardo Fioravanti
From junior stylist to Managing Director at Pininfarina, high-level positions at Fiat and Ferrari, his own design-engineering-architecture firm—this fabulously illustrated book offers rich detail of a rich life.
City of Speed: Los Angeles and the Rise of American Racing
by Joe Scalzo
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but fact and the correct application thereof is not. The subject matter makes sense, the author is known. All should be well. This 2007 book was lauded by everyone; we beg to differ.
How to be a Good Motorist
by Harold Pemberton
Written in the 1920s this little book seeks to brief new drivers on road etiquette and basic knowledge about owning and operating a motorcar.
Motors Finest, Rolls-Royce and Bentley from the Seeger Collection
by Peter Müller
Soon this private collection will be open to the public but unless your travels take you to Liechtenstein, this book is the only way to see the cars all in one place.
Donald Healey’s 8C Triumph Dolomite
by Jonathan Wood
With just three chassis and parts for six engines built, chances are you’ve not seen a 1934/35 Dolomite. They were the most expensive British open two-seaters of their day. None were sold—but they survived, and here is the full story.
Exotic Barn Finds: Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin and More
by Matt Stone
Bristling with photos this book looks at the stories of some 30 imported sports cars found mostly derelict in unlikely places and then restored to life, or at least preserved for a time.
Turbo 3.0, Porsche’s First Turbocharged Supercar
by Ryan Snodgrass
A truly important technological success, and not only for Porsche. Turbocharging is the way many hypercars go these days and this glorious book lays it all out.
Squire: the Man, the Cars, the Heritage
by Jonathan Wood
Few were made, as expensive as Bugattis, but they held a reputation for exceptional top speed and braking.
Automobile Manufacturers of Cleveland and Ohio, 1864–1942
by Frank E. Wrenick with Elaine Wrenick
Automobiles made in Ohio? How about five hundred marques! Ever hear of a Ben-Hur? If not, this book will add a whole new arsenal of automotive minutia to your lexicon.
The World’s Fastest E-Type Jaguar, The Quest for the Record
by Phil Shephard
That a 50-year-old E-Type set a record on the ice, twice, actually, is surprising enough. So is the story of its amateur crew coping with small budgets and many a deprivation.
Scale Auto Magazine
Executive Editor: Mark Savage
What had been a hobby for pre-teen male gearheads back into the late 1950s and 1960s has grown up. Scale Auto Magazineprovides today’s (mostly adult) hobbyists with information and inspiration. Editor Mark Savage and his team do this well, publishing a handsome and useful magazine every other month.
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