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Fast Company: Six Decades of Racers, Rascals and Rods

by Speedy Bill Smith with Dave Argabright

By the time you’ve walked this earth for 80 years, you’ve seen (and maybe even learned) a thing or two. Even better (for us) is if you’ve a story to tell and the ability to do that telling.

Phil Hill: Yankee Champion, First American to Win the Driving Championship of the World

by William F Nolan

Originally published in 1962 and out of print long enough to be worth some serious money in the collectable-book marketplace, this is a revised, updated and enhanced edition.

Walter Röhrl Diary: Memories of a World Champion

by Röhrl, Müller, Klein

“I didn’t really know why I was so fast and it didn’t really interest me.” Not exactly the words one would expect from the 1980 and 1982 World Rally Champion, a veritable legend in his field who was voted by his peers Driver of the Millennium (2000).

Peking to Paris, 100th Anniversary Edition

by Luigi Barzini

Barzini was a newspaper reporter by profession and war correspondent, but more than that—as this book attests—he’s a terrific storyteller with a terrific story to tell. He was along on every one of the 8,000 miles on two roadless continents in 1907.

Porsche 908: The Long Distance Runner

by Födisch, Neßhöver, Roßbach, Schwarz

The 908 was the company’s first car to have an engine of the maximum size the regulations allowed at the time of its inception, 3 liters. It was an important car in its day but is often overlooked nowadays, especially as it is overshadowed by its successor.

We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing’s Legendary Team

by Dave Rockwell

The Ramchargers were a group of like-minded young engineers who formed an after-hours racing team to transform Chrysler’s stodgy image and make it into a performance brand, in the process becoming one of the most successful drag-racing teams.

The Cobra-Ferrari Wars 1963–1965

by Michael L. Shoen

First published twenty-five years after the “war”, Michael Shoen’s account, is still considered the definitive work on what is one of America’s greatest motorsports accomplishments of the sixties.

Racing for Mercedes-Benz, A Dictionary of the 240 Fastest Drivers of the Marque

by Hartmut Lehbrink

The firm we know now as Mercedes-Benz is among the longest-lived and most storied marques in the automotive firmament. Naturally, racing is a key element in its success, and here, for the first time, is a compendium of the names that made it so.

Chassis 141, The Story of the First Le Mans Bentley

by Clare Hay

Hay has earned recognition as a pre-eminent chronicler of WO Bentleys from sweeping histories written about the Bentley firm during its early Cricklewood years. Painstakingly researched, these books are among the most definitive, respected canons of Bentley literature.

British Racing Green: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of British Motor Racing

by David Venables

This is the first of several books in the “Racing Colours” series edited by the renowned Karl Ludvigsen. The book presents its topic organized by marque, one per chapter, for the proverbial “household” names. Several of the “lesser” ones are bundled together, ending with a four-page chapter bringing up the rear of the field.

Genevieve

by Henry Cornelius

This film, made in 1953, has old cars, romance, comedy, gentle action, along with sex appeal and charm enough to drain away the day’s tensions—it almost guarantees you’ll be in a good mood after seeing it!

On Any Sunday

by Bruce Brown

Follow American Motorcycle Association Championship contender Mert Lawwill as he drives his van full of Harleys to dirt and road courses across America seeking to again earn the AMA championship laurels.

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