Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
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and, of course, Porsche 356 race and road cars (especially 550 sports-racing Spyders) will find the many previously unpublished photos in this book irresistible.
The Automobile Yearbook 2011/12
by Serge Bellu (Editor)
Published since 1953, this yearbook wraps up everything automobile-related that made the news in the preceding year. Traditionally, the book covers three main aspects of the automobile: industry, motorsport and culture.
Kidnap of the Flying Lady: How Germany Captured Both Rolls-Royce & Bentley
by Richard Feast
A catchy title—that makes sense only to people who already know the story. Or think they know. Fact is, it will be another few decades before the material facts of this episode will become unsealed.
Elva: The Cars, The People, The History
by János Wimpffen
This exhaustive book is surely the last word on the subject of the little English car with the French name that willed it to go, which it did, but for only ten years.
Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix Season
by Paul Chenard
A marvelous limited-edition collection of artwork—only 50 pieces—with narrative about the 1934 racing season in Europe.
The A-Z of 21st-Century Cars
by Tony Lewin
Not to be mistaken for an encyclopedia-like blow-by-blow/model-by-model compendium of automobiles, this book looks at people, firms, and models that “changed the course of car design.”
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