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

Chevrolet Volt: Development Story of the Pioneering Electrified Vehicle

Edited by Lindsay Brooke

Remember GM’s EV1? Who does?? The Volt will be remembered—and not just for its exploding batteries. This book summarizes key facts, concepts, and people behind the car.

The Complete Book of Porsche 911: Every Model since 1964

by Randy Leffingwell

How is it that the 911 has managed to stay relevant for over 50 years? If a 911 is in your future, especially an older one, don’t go shopping without having read this book first.

The Spirit: Celebrating 75 Years of the Rolls-Royce Motor Car

by Ken Dallison

Twenty-four 18 x 14˝ watercolors of classic Rolls-Royce automobiles in a leather-bound limited-edition book.

The Brescia Bugatti

by Bob King

The most-built Bugatti is the least-written about—until now. This book presents known survivors and their history.

Motor Movies – The Posters!

by Paul Veysey

From starring role to bit part, automobiles are inseparable from movies. This book offers a look at the poster art and publicity campaigns.

Formula 1 Technology

by Peter G Wright

Power, Weight, Tire Grip, Drag and Lift—understand any of these and you’re pretty smart. Understand all of them and you’ll see why a racecar at speed can cling to the roof of a tunnel upside down and not fall off.

Rolls-Royce and Bentley: the Crewe Years

by Martin Bennett

When this book first appeared in 1995 it quickly established itself as the primary source on all the Crewe cars from 1946 onwards. This 3rd edition adds 120 pages and takes us to 1998.

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.

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