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

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.

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

by Günther Raupp 

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.

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