Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Motorama: GM’s Legendary Show & Concept Cars
by David W. Temple
In the 1950s and ‘60s, if you couldn’t make it to the car show, GM would bring its cars to a big city near you in the form of a rolling auto show replete with specially made “dream cars” for just this event.
Reborn, An Owner’s Workshop Guide for the 25/30 Rolls-Royce
by Charles Vyse
It is a sad fact of life that a car once bought is never as good as first hoped, and a sold car is always better in memory than it truly was! So, don’t sell out of despair—fix!
The Top Gear Story
by Martin Roach
It’s not really possibly to be into cars and not know Top Gear. Which is not to say you’ll like it . . . it’s loud, too often offensive, sometimes racist. But the stunts—the editing—even the music, everything shows a deft command of the medium.
Riley Sports Cars 1926–1938
by Graham Robson
As so many other British makes, afflicted as they were of a singularly Britsh way of executing industrial policy, Riley had a complicated history. This book isn’t helping, not even in regards to the small sports car segment it focuses on.
Show Rod Model Kits: A Showcase of America’s Wildest Model Kits
by Scotty Gosson
The wacky world of wacky kit cars is on full display here. Hot rods were once on the fringe—now they’re at Pebble Beach. Kit building is a great hobby, especially if you have the skills to color outside the lines.
Velocity: Heroes of American Auto Racing
by Pete Lyons
Twelve men that made a difference—for twelve months in which YOU will make a difference, right? Be inspired, learn something, look at pretty pictures. Go.
Turning Silver into Gold/Aus Silber wird Gold – 2014
by Hartmut Lehbrink
The silver Mercedes racers won the gold in 2014, the first time the works team won F1 top honors ever. The team won a whole bunch of other awards too so there was much to celebrate, and this is the official M-B “party book”—in more ways than one.
Porsche 918 Spyder
by Bogner, Pander, Peitzmeier
The technical specs of this hypercar are as mind-boggling as the sheer novelty of its technology. But more than that, much more than that, all the things that made this car possible that can’t be quantified on a spreadsheet really matter here. This book tries to capture that.
Jacques Saoutchik – Maître Carrossier, Vol. 4 Addendum
by Peter M. Larsen & Ben Erickson
Only a few months earlier, the authors finished an 1100-page book on this subject, thinking, hoping that everything anyone would ever want to know had been recorded. And then wild and crazy things started coming out of the woodwork, hence this Addendum.
Enzo Ferrari’s Secret War
by David Manton
No, this is not about Ferrari’s “war” on the race track with Ford but his much lesser-known actions during World War II vis-à-vis the Germans. If you ever wondered why Enzo had a soft spot for New Zealanders, this book has an answer—one that reads like fiction but aparently is not.
Berliet 1905–1978
by Christophe Puvilland
Public transport with a French flavor, made by a pioneer automaker that got off the ground thanks to American money. Beaucoup de photos.
The Little Bastards
by Jim Lindsay
Blue collar boys yearning for the fast lane. Trading their bicycles for hot rods they experience beer, women, racing, male bonding, and assorted drama. A fictional story—but you know people who lived just that story.
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