The Automobile and American Life
by John Heitmann
It’s complicated . . . what aspect of life is not affected by the car? It’s a big topic and this little book can get you started.
My 1001 Cars, The Reference Edition
by Gabriel Voisin
This French pioneer aviator and airplane/car maker colored outside the lines and rose to be a captain of industry, rubbing shoulders with tycoons and beautiful women—and died in poverty and obscurity.
The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton
by Benjamin J. Burns
Quick: who was the first to cross the Atlantic by plane? If you said Lindbergh, or Earhart, you’d better read this book!
Mille Miglia: The World’s Greatest Road Race
by Anthony Pritchard
Anyone could race here, just for the fun of it, and many did. Amateur drivers next to pro racers, Isetta bubble cars next to fire-belching sports cars—all on public, everyday roads. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.
The Edwardian Rolls-Royce
by J Fasal and B Goodman
Rolls-Royce’s Silver Ghost is the car whose mechanical excellence made the company famous, making the words “Rolls-Royce” a byword for excellence in any endeavor.
Porsche and Me
by Hans Mezger with Peter Morgan
If you own a Porsche, or even just like them, and don’t know Mezger’s name: off with your head! Here, by his own hand, at last, the story of Porsche’s great engineer.
Fall of Eagles, Airmen of World War One
by Alex Revell
By portraying the men at the controls, and using their own voices real and imagined, this book hits a nerve that dry stats do not.
Eagle: Henry Royce’s First Aero Engine
by Derek S Taulbut
This excellent book details the development process of Rolls-Royce’s WWI V-12 aircraft engine of complex design, extraordinary power, and uncommon reliability.
Porsche: The Sports Racing Cars 1953–72
by Anthony Pritchard
This book covers Porsche’s air-cooled, rear-engined competition models from the 550 to the 917. It also includes F2 and 1 cars because of their connection to the cars in the WSC Championship and GT Prototype classes but it excludes the 911 (except for the 911R) because it is not a dedicated competition model.
Flying Cars, Amphibious Vehicles and Other Dual Mode Transports
by George W Green
This book lists just about everyone from 1900 to 2010 who has ever publicly stated an intention to build either a flying car, a car/boat combination, or any other land/sea/air multi-use vehicle. Green briefly summarizes what is known about each effort and in rare cases, its success or failure.
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!
James Allison: A Biography of the Engine Manufacturer and Indianapolis 500 Cofounder
by Sigur E Whitaker
You know rearview mirrors, four-wheel brakes, front-wheel drive, and maybe even balloon tires. But do you know that all these things, and many more, can be traced back to one of the businesses that sprang from the fertile mind of James Allison (1872–1928)?
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