Buick, The Australian Story

by Eric North and John Gerdtz

The story of the auto industry in Australia, especially the Holden aspect, is interesting all on its own. As with many American makers, Holden too dates back to saddlery and carriage-building beginnings with the company bearing a man’s surname.

Four Works of Fiction by B S Levy

Writing a novel is both a skill and an art, requiring an author to make “word” people who we, as the readers, will find believable and simultaneously keep us engaged, so that we keep reading and turning those pages. If the author happens to be writing historical fiction—well, that’s one more challenge, because now what […]

Bucyrus Heavy Equipment: Construction and Mining Machines 1880–2008

by Keith Haddock

Haddock, who 20 years ago co-founded the Historical Construction Equipment Association has written the definitive history of Bucyrus, an American company synonymous with moving earth.

Let ’Em All Go!

by Chris Economaki

A “must have” if you have any interest whatsoever in any aspect of motorsports. There are few who have seen as much, experienced as much, or spent as many years across all facets of the sport and business as Economaki.

A Drive in the Clouds: The Story of the Aerocar

by Jake Schultz

All too often writers of transportation articles and books do a fine job of telling the automotive/train/plane story, but fall short when trying to convey the human side. Not Schultz.

A Tale of Two (GM) Books

A Tale of Two Books — with apologies to Charles Dickens It is simply human nature that you have likely clicked ahead to those “vital statistics” to see how much these books cost before even starting to read these words about them. It is just as likely that, generally speaking, you are already accustomed to […]

Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

by Greg Grandin

There are books about the T, the A, ’32s, Ford in competition, Henry and Edsel, Ford vs Ferrari—it truly is a very long list of books that parse out and relate various aspects of Ford. And now there’s one about Ford City!

The Brothers Rodríguez

by Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón

This book tells us not only about Pedro’s life on the track, but it also traces his and his brother Ricardo’s rise from obscurity to international celebrity status, and ends with their untimely deaths.

Jupiter’s Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph

by Ted Simon

It takes a special kind of wanderlust to travel overland around the world. Even more so if it is 1973 and you’re traveling on a Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle.

Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis

by William F. and Douglas L. Milliken

This important book has a very special place, for the vast majority of the material has been taken directly from the previously unpublished writings of Maurice Olley, often called an “ueber engineer,” and a key contributor to automotive suspensions.

Bentley “Old Number One”

by Michael Hay

Old Number One was the most famous of racing Bentleys, the personal property of chairman Woolf Barnato. It was still around in 1990, restored to 1932 Outer Circuit form—wherein lies the crux of this book.