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

A Ribbon of Road in the Moonlight

by Michael Pearson

This builds up to the 1957 Targa Florio road race in Sicily. Fast cars, pretty women, a man with a plan. You’ll be entertained—if you don’t think too much.

Bugatti: A Hundred Years of Innovations and Excellence (1909–2009)

Various authors

Not your typical Bugatti book. This one looks at the overall engineering history of the firm on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

The Jordan Automobile, A History

by James H. Lackey

A swanky car, made in America’s “second” auto city, Cleveland. A dance partner told Ned Jordan to make cars a woman would want—and so he did. The most expensive one cost as much as two houses. It couldn’t last.

Austerity Motoring, From Armistice Until the Mid-Fifties

by Malcolm Bobbitt

After WW II, Britain’s output of new cars was earmarked for the export market in order to generate much-needed cash. Add to that fuel rationing and shortages of raw materials and you see why austerity was the watchword.

Coachwork on Vintage Bentleys

3 Litre, 4½ Litre, 6½ Litre, Speed Six & 8 Litre 1921–31

by Nick Walker

Walker is well known as the author of several cornerstone titles in any decent British-car library. Several of them are in this publisher’s “In Detail” series that is an essential resource for the restorer.

MGB, MGC & MGB GT V8, La grande sportive britannique

by David Knowles

One of the quintessential British sports cars, the MGB was in production for 18 years. Today, you’ll find the cars anywhere—but books en français, not so much.

Jaguar XJR7

by Ted West, photos by P. Harholdt

Racing improves the breed, so it is said. The Jaguar XJRs five-year run may not have made the accursed road cars any better but they certainly had enough of a halo effect to stabilize the brand’s slipping fortunes.

Clouds and Shadows

by David Tod

The subtitle says it all: “The reminiscences of life at the Motor Car Division of Rolls-Royce Ltd. Crewe—(Or, the adventures of a small cog in a big wheel)”

Alfa Romeo: A Century of Innovation

by Christian Schön

To be building cars for 100 years means Alfa must be doing something right. This book looks at the cars and the people that made it so.

100 Years of the British Automobile Racing Club

by Gareth Rogers

From formula cars to trucks, pretty much anything with wheels has been raced under BARC auspices and on BARC tracks, and not just in the UK. This book goes on a colorful whirlwind tour of all things BARC.