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

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

by Bryce G. Hoffmann

Unlike GM and Chrysler, FoMoCo took no taxpayer bailout but looked deep into its corporate soul—and threw out the playbook and overhauled itself. Who, why, how are all covered here. Read and learn.

Le Mans Panoramic

by Gavin D Ireland 

A close-up, all-access look at two recent years of the world’s oldest sports car endurance race in sweeping double-page panorama shots that almost put you right into the scene!

Fast Car Physics

by Chuck Edmondson

So you want to drive fast. Better you first strap on your slide rule before you strap yourself into that car.

French Curves: Delahaye, Delage, Talbot-Lago

by Adatto, Figoni, Hinds; photos by Furman 

Twenty-five cars from the Mullin Automotive Museum illustrate the finer points of French coachwork—and it’s not all swoops and chrome.

Citroën DS, Design Icon

by Malcolm Bobbitt

Even for a company known for building innovative cars, the DS was wildly radical—and sold nearly 1.5 million copies!

Speedway: Auto Racing’s Ghost Tracks

by SS Collins and Gavin D. Ireland

Unless you have a heart of stone, this book will stir the soul! The tooth of time gnawing away at once-famous race tracks. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.

Mercedes-Benz SL W113 Series: 1963 to 1971

by Brian Long

Beautiful car, beautiful book. Try to own at least one or the other! This year-by-year model history will steer you right.

Breaks de chasse: Racés, Sportifs, Intemporels

by Michel Stéfani

Whether it’s hauling or hunting or just looking different, a “hunting car” may be just the thing you need. But unless you speak French, only the pictures will tell the story.

Bentley Eight Litre

by Clare Hay

The 8L was Bentley’s attempt to move away from the sports car market and break into the luxury car business, competing directly with Rolls-Royce. The car was good, the business case not.

Peking to Paris 2007: The Ultimate Driving Adventure

by Philip Young

If it’s exhausting just to read the book, imagine actually doing the grueling rally—and paying a $100K for the opportunity to risk life and limb, not to mention car.

The Cameron Story

by William T Cameron

Author Bill Cameron (no relation to Everett Scott Cameron, protagonist of this book) has taken it upon himself to devote some 15 years of his retirement to research and record for posterity the various iterations of The Cameron Car Company. Not an easy task as this company has gone in and out of business more than any other.

Making Sense of Squiggly Lines: The Basic Analysis of Race Car Data Acquisition

by Christopher Brown

If your car is already plumbed for data acquisition, this book will help you get the most out of the squiggly lines on your graphs.

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