Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Aspects of Motoring History

by Malcolm Jeal (ed.)

This annual publication by the SAH’s UK branch covers a wide range of subjects, many of which too esoteric to be examined by anyone else.

David Kimble’s Cutaways: Techniques and the Stories Behind the Art

by David Kimble

If you read about cars, you have seen Kimble’s work. His brilliant cutaways invite/require hours of study and really do show things no one could see this way on their own. Here he explains how he does it.

An Inkling of Brewster

by Frank E. Wismer III

This US coachbuilder bodied the most expensive automobiles of the day and also built its own complete cars so it is no wonder that its clientele is a veritable “Who’s Who” of high society. Based on heretofore private papers the book offers a good overview.

Tyler Alexander: A Life and Times with McLaren

by Tyler Alexander

From mechanic to team boss, the author chronicles his life at a seminal team in an ever-changing sport.

Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental

by André Blaize

Introduced in 1930, the P II Continental was a supremely capable and stylish car. Only 279 were made and every one is covered in these excellent books.

Carriages to Cars

by Steve Bradford-Best

British country coachbuilder Ralph E. Sanders & Sons were active from around 1900 to the 1930s. Long overlooked by the motoring writer they are now introduced into the record by a local boy.

Cars I Could’ve, Should’ve, Kept

by Jackson Brooks

Who hasn’t uttered those words? Still, this author has no regrets and is just grateful to have been their custodian for even a little while.

Cherry’s Model Engines, The Story of the Remarkable Cherry Hill

by David Carpenter

Can you picture yourself pouring years of work into building a fully functional miniature machine from scratch—not a toy, if you please—and then giving it away?? Cherry Hill has done it. Twenty times.

The Wankel Rotary Engine, A History 

by John B. Hege

A simple design, compact size, light weight, nearly vibration-free operation . . . so why is no one using this engine? In the 1970s automakers were tripping over themselves to license it. This book explains what happened. Or didn’t.

Brighton Belles, A Celebration of Veteran Cars

by David Burgess-Wise

The famous London-Brighton run admits only cars from the very dawn of motoring, from the middle of the nineteenth century up until 1904. What started as a primitive horseless carriage would turn into a 100 mph monster within a few short years.