Archive for Items Categorized 'Biography/ Autobiography', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Design Between the Lines
by Patrick le Quément, Stéphane Geffray
You’d have to have been sequestered on your private island for the last 50 years not to know the name of the author of this book. Simca, Ford, VW/Audi, Renault—some 60 million cars have Patrick le Quément’s fingerprints on them, and he reshaped his industry.
The Master Driver of the World, The 1914 Cactus Derby
by Mark G. Dill
Only five of twenty starters finished this last running of the Los Angeles—Phoenix race and were lauded as “Motormen of Speed,” with the winner crowned “Master Driver of the World.” That was Barney Oldfield, he of the wild antics and colorful reputation.
Alwin Springer – Racing With Porsche in North America
by Alwin Springer with Wilfried Müller
From his days as journeyman mechanic to cofounding a legendary Porsche tuning company to working for Porsche directly, Springer has led Porsche to many of its most significant milestones in North America. He may be retired but he’s not done!
The Green Flag, Just a Bloke’s Story
by Barry Green with Gordon Kirby
“The Bloke” is an Australian whose name has become a staple in American motorsports history as a racing mechanic and team leader/owner. He’s worked with so many of the big names that it is a surprise that no one had already written a book about him.
Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a Car Tragic
by Chris Harris
Once, and only for a while, Ferrari banned Harris from reviewing their cars. So did Lamborghini. Such is the price of journalistic independence. He’s done a lot more than Top Gear. And he really does know cars.
An AUTObiography
by Charles Howard
After some 65 years of “loving cars” UK vintage-car dealer Charles Howard figures he has a thing or two to tell the world—about cars in particular and life in general.
Norman Conquest, One Man’s Tale of High-Flying Adventures and a Life in the Fast Lane
by Vic Norman
For £399 he’ll let you try wingwalking for yourself, or you can spend £45 and just read about it and a hundred other unusual things. That Ferrari 250GTO Nick Mason owns? Used to be his—sold for £16,000. No regrets. Never had a proper job. How does he do it?
Il Mio Drake
by Lycia Mezzacappa
The Barber of Maranello tells all! Well, no, but the book does reveal an unknown side of the notoriously private Enzo Ferrari, not least because they saw each other six mornings a week.
George Westinghouse, Powering the World
by William R. Huber
His teachers thought he was mentally disabled. He quit college, but he received his first patent at the age of 19. Hundreds more would follow and he became a captain of industry, his 60-odd companies providing paychecks to tens of thousands and changing the world.
Béla Barényi: Pioneer of Passive Safety at Mercedes-Benz
by Harry Niemann
Born into the age of the horseless carriage young Barényi had a knack for engineering and an uncommonly acute awareness of unintended safety hazards—so he built himself a racing sleigh with a padded steering wheel! One of his many innovations may well have saved your life.
Roger Williamson: A Collection of Memories from Friends, Mechanics, Rivals and Family
by K. Guthrie & D. Banks
The F1 cars of Williamson’s era were getting faster and faster but neither the tracks nor safety consciousness evolved at pace. His horrific death in a fire at the 1973 Dutch GP is a chilling example of Murphy’s Law at full tilt.
Kim: A Biography of M.G. Founder Cecil Kimber
by Jon Pressnell
This epic book is less about the cars than the man behind them, and in this case especially you cannot appreciate the former without the latter. Pressnell leaves no stone unturned to present a multi-faceted picture of a complicated man who took the firm to the loftiest of heights—only to be fired.
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