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Birth of a Giant, The Men and Incidents that Gave America the Motorcar
by Richard Crabb
Even today this 1969 book is worth consulting. Make that especially today because many of its primary sources are no longer with us to correct the errors that inevitably creep into the retelling of their stories.
Senna: The Truth
by Franco Nugnes
F1 driver Ayrton Senna perished in 1994 and the author of this book was there. Much has been written since but apparently we’re still not done weighing the causes and consequences and many matters large and small. This book takes a different tack.
The Porsche Art Book
by Edwin Baaske (Editor)
Even if Porsches leave you cold and you dismiss the whole “car as art” issue as contrived, you will want to meet these artists and see how they work and think.
The Ferrari 250 GTO Spotting Guide
by Yan-Alexandre Damasiewicz
Small enough to slip into your coat pocket this handy field guide is meant to help identify which of the 36 cars you’re looking at—provided you ever see one in the wild at all. Even if you don’t, you’ll learn here about not only the differences as-new but also mods made in later years.
Maserati 250F: A Legendary Formula 1 Car
by Walter Bäumer & Jean-François Blachette
If you follow the serious 250F literature you know there is untrodden ground. Is this the book to button it all up? It pretty much is. It is massive in terms of physical attributes, and massively important.
Delage, France’s Finest Car
by Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise
“The Beautiful French Car” is not a slogan cooked up by a clever press person but an accolade given by the public. The serious literature on this marque is quite thin and this book goes a long way towards painting a definitive picture of the entire lifespan of the company, not just the glamour decade from the late 1920s onwards.
The Automotive Alchemist
by Andy Saunders
Andy Saunders Creative Cars dreams up custom cars that are found on show fields and in galleries and in private collections, and in his own driveway. He has many more cars to “get out of his system”—this book showcases several decades of work.
Power Unleashed: Trailblazers Who Energised Engines with Supercharging and Turbocharging
by Karl Ludvigsen
An extraordinary trilogy quite without equal outside of a professional-grade education. Making an engine yield more output is almost as old as the combustion engine itself, and most of the people and most of their ideas are given their due.
Whitney Straight – Racing Driver, War Hero, Industrialist
by Paul Kenny
Born into a prominent family, he hated being referred to as the “Boy Millionaire Race Track Idol”—but he was all that and more, and on his own merits. He would have been more still if he hadn’t died young, at 66. And then this fine book would have had to be even longer!
John, George and the HWMs: The First Racing Team to Fly the Flag for Britain
by Simon Taylor
Underdogs. One a mechanical engineer, the other almost a household name as a quite good race driver. England is picking itself up after the war so they stood up a race team—because they could and because no one else was. They did well, but ask people today about “HWM” . . .
Joseph Figoni: Le Grand Couturier de la Carrosserie Automobile
by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson
Brimming with extraordinary source material these three volumes explore the Bugatti period in this coachbuilder’s oeuvre, and present info on 113 chassis bodied 1925–1939. The press release says “brace yourself,” and it ain’t kidding: over 1100 pages!
The First American Grand Prix: The Savannah Auto Races, 1908–1911
by Tanya A. Bailey
Savannah, Georgia may be a hotbed for many things, but racing?
International participants declared the course America’s greatest and the author is certainly its greatest fan.
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