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!
Classic British Car Electrical Systems
by Rick Astley
Utter the word LUCAS and grown men will quake in their boots. Astley explains the reasons for Lucas’ market dominance and their relationship to Smiths, Rists, and Autolite—and that Lucas built to a price point: meaning you get what you pay for! So there.
The Scarlet Car
by Richard Harding Davis
This slim book first published in 1907 is certainly among the very earliest motoring stories. The characters and events are skillfully brought to life, jumping off the pages and into your mind even as you read. It is the sort of book that you can—and want—to devour in one sitting.
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.
Eat Free or Die
by Kevin Clemens
Written by a bona fide, real-life, practicing, authentic, credential-carrying automotive journalist, this is a wild ride (that was just too easy!) of a novel which I read as a sort of slightly less-complicated, car-centricDaVinci Code. This fast-moving, turbocharged whodunit features the adventures of a super hot-shot automotive journo from a super hot-shot automotive magazine.
1965: Jim Clark & Team Lotus, The UK Races
by William Taylor
A 208-page large-format book about just eleven race weekends that took place 45 years ago in England seems fairly indulgent. But when the subject of the book is the incomparable Jim Clark, and the year is 1965, it all makes sense.
The World’s Fastest Indian
by Roger Donaldson
This is not a documentary but a theatrical movie telling the story of the legendary Bert Munro, the New Zealander with a dream to set a record at Bonneville on the Indian motorbike that he had owned for forty-some-odd years.
Super Speedway
Few racing movies begin with a tight shot of three fat chickens roosting on a barn beam, but this is an exception. That’s just one aspect setting Super Speedway well apart from the usual racing film.
Zoom, The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
by I Carson and V Vaitheeswaran
It is pretty clear that something has to change. The system of transportation that we have developed over the past 100 years—the one that is dependent of infinite amounts of cheap energy and two or even three new cars in every garage must come to an end in the not too distant future.
Magic Motors 1930
by Brooks T Brierley
One way to approach this book is to consider it as an essay in photos. The introduction states right away that the reader is “assumed to have some familiarity with the subject” and that the book is not meant to be “a comprehensive marque-by-marque history.”
A Gullwing at Twilight, Shifting Gears Gracefully
The Bonneville Ride of John Fitch
by Chris Szwedo
Fitch is today a living testimony to the fact that attaining a “certain age” need have no relationship to being useful or productive. One must only remain fully engaged in life and living and, of course, be blessed with the gift of good health. As proof, take a look at this DVD, gloriously filmed by Chris Szwedo,
Equations of Motion: Adventure, Risk and Innovation
by William F Milliken
You’ve heard the saying about someone having “forgotten more than the rest of us will ever know.” This certainly applies to Bill Milliken, except that he hasn’t forgotten anything! He was 95 years old when he published the first version of this autobiography, the hardcover edition.
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