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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.

Sports Car Racing in the South: Texas to Florida, 1961–1962

by Willem Oosthoek with Photography by Bob Jackson

If you’re a car person you’ve heard of Stuttgart. How about Stuttgart, Arkansas? Geneva, Florida? Opa Locka? Opelousas? Even if you have, you’ve probably long forgotten who raced what where. No more!

Audi Design, Zwischen Entwicklung und Revolution

by Othmar Wickenheiser

AUDI means “listen” in Latin but here you can read all about the firm’s design philosophy over the last fifty years. And if you, as they hope you do, nowadays can recognize an Audi at a mere glance, they know they got it right.

WAFT 2

by Bart Lenaerts and Lies De Mol

“Unusual” doesn’t begin to describe this highly subjective look at cars, car people, and car culture. For better or worse, there’s nothing like it but it’s very weirdness earns it a place on your bookshelf.

If you can find a copy . . .

The Silver Ghost: A Supernatural Car

by Jonathan Harley

This is the Rolls-Royce model that made the company famous and without which it would not be existing today. The author specializes in Silver Ghost restoration and this book tells its and his shop’s story.

Where the Writer Meets the Road

by Sam Posey

Among this race driver’s trophies is an Emmy for sports writing and this anthology is a good testament to Posey’s abilities behind the pen. Now in his seventies, he’s been around, literally and figuratively.

Ever Since I Was a Young Boy, I’ve Been Drawing Sports Cars

by Bart Lenaerts & Lies De Mol

See the world of car design from the inside. Sports cars, being such highly subjective interpretations of the essence of a car or a carmaker, can be highly divisive. Understanding the thought processes of the people that design them will help.

Montier’s French Racing Fords

by Chris Martin

Carroll Shelby wasn’t the first to take Ford to Le Mans, French Ford dealer Charles Montier was—forty years earlier, in the form of a hopped-up Model T!

The Daily Mirror World Cup Rally 40: The World’s Toughest Rally in Retrospect

by Graham Robson

Any time you need to carry oxygen in a car you know you’re in for a trying time. Then and now the 1970 World Cup Rally is thought to be the toughest-ever rally. Six weeks, 16,000 miles, three continents, 17 torturous stages, elevations of up to 16,000 feet.

Inside IMSA’s Legendary GTP Race Cars: The Prototype Experience

by J. Martin & M. Fuller

Taking a page out of the anything-goes Can-Am playbook, the GT Prototype racing series was inaugurated in 1981 to reinvigorate the International Motor Sports Association which itself had been founded, in 1969, as an answer to another series’ shortcomings, the SCCA.

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