Archive for Items Categorized 'Out of Print', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Test Pilots: The Story of British Test Flying 1903–1984
by Don Middleton
Written by a pilot who is also a good writer this 1985 book continues to impress. This is not about flyboy derring-do but the hard and dangerous work of trying out things that look good on paper but have never been done in the wild before.
New York Fifth Avenue Coach Company, 1885–1960
by Oliver J. Ogden
Fifth Ave is the premier north-south thoroughfare in Manhattan, with landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, not to mention high-value residential buildings. Obviously, buses had to look the part.
Old Farm Tractors
by Philip A. Wright
The tractors in this book were “old” already when it first came out, six decades ago. Now they’re ancient, and increasing in popularity as collector’s items. Unless it’s an ultra classic, which could top a million dollars, they’re even affordable.
The American Car Since 1775
The Most Complete Survey of the American Automobile ever Published
by The Editors of AQ
Fifty years after its first publication you can still find this book without much effort, at less than the original MSRP, and often in “as new” condition—meaning those owners never used the book as it was meant to. Don’t be that person!
Novi, The Legendary Indianapolis Race Car, Vols 1 + 2
by George Peters and Henri Greuter
Fan favorites, powerful, and certainly capable of winning, no Novi-engined racer ever won the one event they were designed for, the Indy 500.
The Kalamazoo Automobilist: 1891–1991
by David O. Lyon
You may have heard of a Wolverine, but probably not in an automotive context. Checker is a big name, of course. How about Barley, Blood, Cannon, Cornelian, Dort to name just a few of the makers you’ll encounter in this book. Street names are in many cases all that remains.
The Story of a Stanley Steamer
by George Woodbury
This is not a company history but the saga of one specific 1917 model that a retired college professor took a shine to, returning a derelict to operational status. It was a complicated task in 1950 when this book was written, and would be harder now.
Rolls-Royce Memories, A Coming-of-Age Souvenir
H. Massac Buist
Written in 1926, this memoir offers both a personal and in-depth look into yesteryear when cars and airplanes were new and wondrous. We are given a contemporary account of the doings of Charles Stewart Rolls and F. Henry Royce. It’s like watching the old TV show “You are There.”
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.
The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins
by C. Lyle Cummins Jr.
Cummins is not only the name behind the ubiquitous Cummins Diesel truck engine but also a world speed and endurance record holder. Readers with historical awareness will recognize in the publisher’s name a clever homage to Sadi Carnot, the brilliant young French scientist who is considered the father of thermodynamics.
Zany Afternoons
by Bruce McCall
In a former life, McCall was a principal in McCaffery & McCall, the huge New York advertising agency that served Mercedes-Benz USA. On the side, he wrote less serious stories for Car & Driver (remember the Denbeigh Super Chauvinist?), Playboy, and The National Lampoon.
Those Elegant Rolls-Royce
by Lawrence Dalton
This first of the five Rolls-Royce books lifelong motoring enthusiast Lawrie Dalton would write covers the range of coachwork mounted on Rolls-Royce chassis from 1907–1939. To produce the best book possible, he started his own publishing house; that was half a century ago, and it still exists.
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