Archive for Items Categorized 'Multilingual / Not English', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Gotha de l’Automobile Française
by Claude Rouxel and Laurent Friry
To cut a long story short, this is THE book to have on French car manufacturers if you have an interest in the upper crust cars of the Twentieth century.
Alfa Romeo & Mille Miglia
by Andrea Curami
Published in the year of Alfa Romeo’s 100th anniversary, this book follows the Porsche and Mercedes Benz volumes in a series of books by the late Andrea Curami (d. 2010) about the Mille Miglia efforts of specific marques.
Salmson, la belle mécanique française
by Laurent Chevalier, Claude Chevalier
This book is the enhanced re-edition of Chevalier’s 1997 volume by the same publisher and which has sold out. His son Laurent has found about 200 new photographs that have never been published before. It proves that the “definitive work on …” only exists in authors’ and editors’ dreams or, at least, until the next one!
Karoserie Petera
by Jan Králík
Petera is not the first name that springs to mind when one thinks “coachbuilder.” However, this Czech firm was one of the most important coachbuilding firms in Central Europe from 1908 to the late 1970s, first making horse-drawn vehicles, sledges and hearses, then automobiles, trucks, coaches, and even gliders during World War Two.
Veteranos y Clásicos
by Josep Vert i Planas
“Vert Carrocerias” produced passenger and commercial vehicles but it was after WWII that their interest in classic cars developed into a sideline that specialized in the restoration of what was left after the war had taken its toll.
Bagheera: l’irrésistible panthère de Matra Simca
by André Dewael
Dewael founded the Belgian Matra Club in 1987 and so it is only natural that he embarked on the huge task of writing the definitive book on the futuristic Bagheera coupé—the “irresistible panther.” No stone was left unturned.
Ces belles voitures dont a rêvé mon père
by Xavier de Nombel & Patrice Vergès
The authors of this book are fixtures in the French automotive world. Both grew up in postwar France, when cars when cars were difficult to obtain and sometimes extravagantly expensive. Here they describe “their father’s dream cars.”
Joyaux Automobiles des Maharadjahs
by Gautam Sen
A clientele of wealthy Indian enthusiasts with incredibly deep pockets and remarkable eccentricities absorbed disproportionately large numbers of European and American cars, from bejeweled Rolls-Royces to more common fare such as Fiats and Fords.
French Etceterini Miscellanea
A review of three slim specialty French books:
La 4CV Bosvin-Michel-Spéciale by Robert Bosvin
La Saga sportive de la Renault 4CV by François Rivage
Sportives tricolores, 1950–70 by Jean Paul Decker
La Carrosserie Française: du Style au Design
by Serge Bellu
(French) Right from the cover photo the book leaves no doubt that French cars look, well, different. This distinction—and it is a distinction—is as true today as it was at the very beginning of the automobile era.
Porsche 917: The Heroes, the Victories, the Myth
by Födisch, Neßhöver, Roßbach, Schwarz
What distinguishes this large-format book from the many others on this model is its approach. While the car and its history are described in all pertinent detail, it is first and foremost an appraisal, or, better, anappreciation of the car, written by the very people who knew it best.
Fuerza Libre 1919–1942: Grand Prix, Sports Cars and Specials Racing in the Pampas
by Guillermo D Sánchez
There is no greater compliment to pay a book than to say it covers new ground. Unless you are South American and lived at the time of the Fuerza Libre, pretty much everything in this book will be new to most.
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