Škoda Superb, A New Era

by Lewandowski, Zimmer, Peitzmeier

Škoda has been around for 120 years. This book showcases their flagship model.

Gilles Villeneuve: His Untold Life From Berthierville to Zolder

by Károly Méhes

Even thirty years after his death one doesn’t have to look hard for memories and memorials to the well-liked GP driver. Impressions from his contemporaries are gathered here to shed light on the phenomenon.

Restoring Museum Aircraft

by Robert C. Mikesh

Remember how you used to see non-original polished metal, even chrome, in the engine compartments of cars in serious concours d’elegance? Well, times have changed, and so have the philosophical approaches to automotive restoration.

Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the Critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans

by P. Lerner, photos by D. Friedman

A mouthful of a title and one of the most colorful chapters in racing history. Lerner does not let all the hoopla get in the way of presenting a nuanced, properly researched account.

Maserati 250F In Focus

by Anthony Pritchard

An iconic 1950s racecar, competent in its day but with an uncommonly complicated afterlife. Pritchard takes a competent stab at unraveling it.

The Man Who Built the Best Car in the World

by Brian Sewell, illustrated by Stefan Marjoram

The slender book, splendidly illustrated, offers the briefest of glimpses of the man behind the car, Henry Royce, whose high standards for everything he encountered propelled him into greatness and also into sickness.

Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans

A.J. Baime

Not your normal racing book! The epic battle between H. Ford and E. Ferrari in the 1960s was about much more than the cars each built, or racing prowess and showroom sales. It was first and foremost about humiliating the opponent.

My Lifetime in Motorsport

by S.C.H “Sammy” Davis

He lived a life colorful enough to require three versions of an autobiography! Racing driver, rallyist, motoring journalist, artist, cartoonist and man about town, he was one of the most popular and enduring figures in the history of British motorsport.

British Buses 1967

by Jim Blake

Is an interest in buses a “purely British phenomenon”? The author doesn’t think so—and offers piles of photos to show us what we might be missing.

Aspects of Motoring History

by Malcolm Jeal (ed.)

This annual publication by the SAH’s UK branch covers a wide range of subjects, many of which too esoteric to be examined by anyone else.

Keep A Knockin’, The Story of a Legendary Drummer

by Charles Connor with Ziv Biton

When the now 80-year-old Connor joined The Upsetters (aka Little Richard’s band) he was only 18. The band didn’t have a bass player so he had to drum extra hard—enabling him to “upset” many a musical convention with innovative rhythm work.

David Kimble’s Cutaways: Techniques and the Stories Behind the Art

by David Kimble

If you read about cars, you have seen Kimble’s work. His brilliant cutaways invite/require hours of study and really do show things no one could see this way on their own. Here he explains how he does it.

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