Archive for Items Categorized 'Biography/ Autobiography', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Lee Noble, Supercar Genius

by Christopher Catto

Noble Automotive started out building kit cars and did it so well that soon enough customers asked for complete cars. Of the many models over the decades are some that moved the needle so decisively that established automakers had to do some hard thinking. This is the first book to tell the full story.

Daredevil at the Wheel: The Climb and Crash of Joan LaCosta

by Tony St. Clair

She really did set the women’s speed record, in 1926—and she really did get arrested for armed robbery, in 1929. This is a wild story, exceedingly well researched and compellingly told.

Robert and John Pitcairn: Titans of Rail, Oil and Glass  

by William R. Huber

The story of industrialization and transportation in America would be incomplete without the brothers Pitcairn, and their circle of peers and friends. Things they did and ideas they had affect lives still today.

Amateur Racing Driver

by T.P. Cholmondeley Tapper

In the 1930s he became the first internationally known racing driver from New Zealand and had a promising start but a short career, making a greater name for himself as a skier and also found his way into aviation.

Flying Boat Pilot in War and Peace, Disaster and Survival

The Extraordinary Life of Captain M.J.R. ‘Roly’ Alderson

by Mark Alderson

From learning on an Avro Lynx biplane—six months after Lindbergh’s solo Atlantic crossing—to leading BOAC’s “Comet Development Unit” this book covers the whole arc of aviation development.

Forever Young: Six Lost Talents of Motor Racing

by Wagstaff, Marriott, Saltinstall & Banks

A tribute to drivers who were on their way to a promising career but died doing what they loved before seeing it fully blossom.

Joe of All Trades, From a Formula 5000 Championship to an Island Paradise 

by Joe Wright with Gordon Campbell

During the 1960s and 1970s it was not uncommon to find New Zealand race mechanics among all the top racing teams around the world. Wright was one of the most successful and this is his autobiography.

My Travels on Racer Road: Can-Am and Formula 1 in Their Golden Age 

by Pete Lyons

This award-winning US motorsports journalist and photographer once said he felt “enchanted” by the sights and sounds and ideas to which his job took him. You will be too—by the words in this autobiography.

Mister Showman, The Man who Created the Custom Car Show Phenomenon

by Bob Larivee Sr.

Could this story have happened anywhere but America? If there were a book on how to run car shows, Larivee would have written it. An autobiography is the next best thing.

The Brown Bullet, Rajo Jack’s Drive to Integrate Auto Racing

by Bill Poehler

What do a four-time (1978, 1979, 1999 and 2003) NFL coach of the year and Super Bowl winner born in 1936 and a Champ- and midget-car driver (1905–1956) have in common? More than you might ever imagine!

How Did I Get Here? 

Memories of Six Decades in Motorsport, and Musings on the Future of Formula 1 and the Planet

by Peter Wright

To say that Peter Wright is the guru of ground effect is like saying that Sir Ian McKellen is just the Gandalf guy. And that’s only one of the arrows in his quiver.

Charlie Schwab, President of Carnegie Steel, U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel  

by William R. Huber

Somebody who should know (Thomas Edison) called him the “master hustler.” He became one of the very rich men of his time—and died in debt. Still, 2000 people lined the streets. So what sort of fellow was this?

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