Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Fleetwood, The Company & the Coachcraft
by James J Schild
If all you associate with the name “Fleetwood” is “Cadillac” you are overdue for this book! That connection did not come about until after the Fisher brothers bought Fleetwood in 1925 and made it part of the GM empire.
Shelby Cobra Fifty Years
by Colin Comer
50 years ago, Carroll Shelby contacted British specialist manufacturer AC Cars to build him a car, but with an American V8 engine he was going to supply. This book recaps the history of an American icon.
Form Follows Function: The Art of the Supercar
by Stuart Codling & James Mann
There are stacks of “supercar” and “dream car” books that stitch together superficial words and random photos of sexy cars as an excuse to inflict yet another vapid book upon the world. Not this one.
The Automotive Bibliography
by Denis Veilleux
This book catalogs monographs, theses, biographies, encyclopedias, company and government publications; even buyers’, collectors’, spotters’, and identification guides relating to every aspect of motorization.
Henri Chapron
by Dominique Pagneux
While always current in terms of popular taste, Chapron’s designs were not flashy or avant-garde but sober and of restrained elegance. During the peak years of 1928–31 their output reached a lofty 500 cars a year.
Vehicular Engine Design
by Kevin L Hoag
This graduate school textbook is an overview of what will be required of design engineers specializing in auto and light truck engines once they hire on with a major vehicle manufacturer. Fuel and ignition systems are not included, those topics being covered separately elsewhere.
Ferrari: 25 Years of Calendar Images
For more than a quarter of a century Ferrari has offered an “official” calendar, and for the whole of that time one single photographer has had the privilege of being The Man. This book uses select images from Raupp’s calendars to illustrate the story of Ferrari cars.
They Started in MGs: Profiles of Sports Car Racers of the 1950s
by Carl Goodwin
Cheap, quick, easy to fix and modify, the MG TC really was the one car that can be said to have launched sports car racing in America. You’ll be surprised at who all cut their teeth on this little machine.
Ferrari: 2012 Official Scuderia Ferrari Calendar
Highlights from Ferrari’s most recent F1 season, captured in images by three of the big names in motorsports photography. There’s really not much more that needs to be said, but there is always a useful bit of background to further enlighten the viewer.
Ferrari Myth 2012: The Official Ferrari Calendar
by Günther Raupp
Imagine standing in front of this cover, in all its 27˝ x 19˝ eyeball-searing grandeur. If you do not feel something stirring inside there’s something wrong with you—and you do not deserve to look at it anymore. Only 5000 of these things exist so move over!
Sprint Car Salvation
by Dave Argabright
The subtitle of this fast-moving novel by a highly respected and talented racing journalist is “A Jimmy Wilson racing adventure” and an adventure is just what it is!
Porsche by Mailander
by Karl Ludvigsen
Anyone with an interest in photography, and, of course, Porsche 356 race and road cars (especially 550 sports-racing Spyders) will find the many previously unpublished photos in this book irresistible.
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