Archive for Items Categorized 'Biography/ Autobiography', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
How to Build a Car
by Adrian Newey
If only really smart people can design race-winning cars then just how smart must someone be whose designs have won over 150 Grands Prix? An unexpectedly gifted writer, Newey reveals the man behind the cliché of the geeky designer in his ivory tower.
Schlumpf
by Ard & Arnoud op de Weegh
In the 1970s, this was the story. Greedy industrialists pilfering their corporate treasury to buy classic cars instead of paying their employees’ wages and pensions. But is that what happened? This book presents an alternative version.
Streamliner
by John Wall
Combining salesmanship and media savvy, Loewy created brand images for major corporations but also made himself into a national brand by courting journalists and tastemakers to become the face of both a new profession and a consumer-driven vision of the American dream.
The Perfect Car
by Nick Skeens
If volatility of temperament is a measure of competence then Barnard should be counted a genius. And he is, because he really was. The exasperating perfectionist who cut down anyone and anything in his way makes for an intense story.
Hobbo
by David Hobbs with Andrew Marriott
Englishman David Hobbs had a long driver career in motorsports, almost four decades competing in almost every form of racing. If you only know him from his gig as F1 commentator, prepare to be surprised.
50/50
by Sylvia Wilkinson
Retired since 2001, this driver’s name showed up on many a winner’s podium all through the 1980s—but also in court proceedings, involving his own father no less. He now suffers an incurable disease.
For the Love of Old Cars: The Jack Passey Story
by Ken Albert
Too few people outside the hardcore collector community seem to know Jack Passey. He may be “Mr. Lincoln” but many other makes found in him a good custodian and early champion of the old-car movement.
I Love to Make the DIRT FLY!
by Carl Hungness
Who was the man who “Created A Great City From A Jungle”? A serial entrepreneur who started a bicycle business, created multi-million dollar enterprises, and dreamt up the Indy 500.
Airmen’s Obituaries, Book Two
by Jay Iliff (Editor)
You may not have known Moose Fumerton, Bobbi Trout, Cyclops Brown, orGrumpy Unwin in life but you really should get to know them in death. Think of these obits as mini biographies—nothing morbid about that!
One Off: The Roads, The Races, The Automobiles of Toly Arutunoff
by Anatoly A. Arutunoff
The story of a supremely colorful life—that’s still going on, full bore. Well, almost. If you know anything about the beginnings of club racing in the US, this is a name you know—or should know.
The Kellner Affair: Matters of Life and Death
by Larsen and Erickson
The raison d’être for this book is that French coachbuilder J.P. Kellner was executed by the Nazis as a spy, a victim, as were others, of denunciation. This monumental book examines original documents, all reproduced here—and concludes/proves that the guy blamed for it is not the guy! Oh, and there are cars too . . .
Brian Redman – Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks
by Brian Redman, Jim Mullen
A really good biography of a great racer and a hugely decent man who survived his pro years—often barely—with enough good cheer to retire at age 52 and still remain active in historic racing.
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