Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
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.
The Pininfarina Book
by Günther Raupp (editor)
Is there such a thing as quintessential Italian style? Pininfarina, now 85 years in business, says yes. This book is supposed to make the case.
The Complete Bentley
by Eric Dymock
By the time of this book’s writing, 101 models had been built over some 90 years and they’re all in this lavishly illustrated book.
The Last Days of Henry Ford
by Henry Dominguez
Not just the “last days” but the last 18 months. New details and new perspectives paint a more human picture of this tortured tycoon.
The Roycean: From Manchester to Crewe, via Derby, No. 6
by Tom Clarke, Will Morrison eds.
The Roycean, now in its sixth year, is an annual journal containing scholarly articles by a number of contributors on arcane but fascinating aspects of the history of Rolls-Royce and (Derby- and Crewe-built) Bentley motorcars up to the 1960s.
Total Performers: Ford Drag Racing in the 1960s
by Charles R. Morris
If you think a Velvet Brute is an umbrella drink you’d better read this book, quick. Written by someone who drove those cars in that decade the book offers an authentic look at a very unusual era marked, not least, by a Chevy v Ford debate on full boil.
Professor Porsche’s Wars
by Karl Ludvigsen
Ferdinand Porsche’s very successes had the unintended consequence of making him an increasingly indispensable national asset. This proximity to power kept his order books full, but at what cost?
The Early Days
by Davide Bassoli
Focusing on the launch year of the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud/Bentley S Series this unusual book takes the reader back to 1955 to experience the car as a contemporary would have. People who like to “play” with books are in for a surprise!
Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races 1953–1962
by Terry O’Neil
At long last here’s another missing piece to the puzzle that is the not undramatic and certainly not painless shift from amateur to pro racing in the US.
Porsche Carrera
by Rolf Sprenger, Steve Heinrichs
Small motor—big results. The 4-cam made Porsche successful and even when it was phased out a key technology carried over into larger applications. This superlative book has it all, plus the first-ever attempt to list every racing car motivated by it.
Bentley – The Book
This book is a guided tour to all things Bentley, to introduce people to the marque’s history and brand values—and to make them lust after a Bentley, be it in the form of a car or a sofa or a handbag . . . or even “just “ a haircut at a very special London barber.
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