How Your Car Works

by Arvid Linde

A basic guide to what does what and why, and how to keep it that way! From types of bodywork to types of powerplant and ignition to emission, the book explains just enough to make you conversant enough to make that phone call for professional help.

Lunches With Mr. Q: An Auto Industry Titan on Business, Life and Sports Car Dreams

by Kevin Nelson

Anyone who drives an import car in the US, especially in the postwar years when folks like importer Kjell Qvale blazed the trail, owes him a debt of gratitude. This book offers a look at a life well lived.

How To Restore Your Collector Car

by Tom Brownell

On the show field, that gleaming collector car looks swell—but what did it take to get it there? Brownell has been there/done that. Learn from him!

Hitler’s Chariots: Vol. 3, Volkswagen – from Nazi People’s Car to New Beetle

by Blaine Taylor

The world’s least popular man did have a hand in creating the world’s most popular car. There’s more to the Beetle story than that but this book does not deliver on its title.

Hitler’s Chariots: Vol. 2, Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser Parade Car

by Blaine Taylor

Calling itself “the first ever illustrated study devoted to the famous 770K” is no idle boast. Illustrated, yes; study, not so much.

Lawrence of Arabia

by David Murphy

If all you know of Lawrence is the movie, prepare to be surprised. The man had more depth—and more problems—which is why he’s still being studied today. This book is an ideal introduction.

T.E. Lawrence in War and Peace: An Anthology of the Military Writings of Lawrence of Arabia

by Malcolm Brown

Peace probably came at a higher cost to Lawrence than the war in the Middle East that he so singularly shaped. Here you can weigh the toll in his own words and those of other principals and contemporaries.

Hitler’s Chariots: Vol. 1, Mercedes-Benz G-4 Cross-Country Touring Car

by Blaine Taylor

There’s a car for every purpose and season—the six-wheeled G4 is what the German government used during WWII to make the rounds when speed was not a priority but ruggedness and a certain protection were.

AMARG: America’s Military Aircraft Boneyard

by Nicholas A. Veronico, Ron Strong

An excellent pictorial survey of the history of a one-of-a-kind storage facility and the procedures used in mothballing, recommissioning, or destruction.

Betty & Veronica: Bad Boy Trouble

by Melanie Morgan & Steven Butler

Comic book character Archibald “Chick” Andrews tried to impress his new neighbor, Betty, right from his first appearance in 1941. He hasn’t stopped since—and nor have people stopped reading about him!

Facel Véga, Le Grand Tourisme à la française 1939–1964

by Chambrette, Bel, Renou and Revoy

This book does not only cover the Vega, one of the 20th century’s glamour cars, but all the products and activities of the entire Facel company.

Control in the Sky: The Evolution & History of the Aircraft Cockpit

by L.F.E. Coombs

This meticulously detailed account examines not only specific cockpit and flight deck arrangements but also how basic human skeletal and cognitive factors influence the design of the pilot’s “office.”

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