GHOSTS 2025 Calendars, The Great War & A Time Remembered

by Philip Makanna

Excellent air-to-air shots, esthetically pleasing, technically tricky, suitable for framing, not expensive. What more could you ask for?

Taming the Automobile

by Kerry Segrave

Key point: unlike many other innovations, the auto industry was imposed on society from the top down. What? The author is a Cultural Historian and has written about topics as diverse as Shoplifting and Foreign Films.

Prodrive: 40 Years of Success

by Ian Wagstaff

When this UK motorsport and engineering group turned forty it was high time for a look back—and forward. On both counts there’s surely a lot more to be mined, but here’s a start.

Quarter-Mile Corvettes 1953– 1975

The History of Chevrolet’s Sports Car at the Drag Strip

by Steve Holmes

The Corvette started the same year the NHRA hosted its first event. That there is a connection between the two was unintentional but this book will show how entwined they have become.

How Did I Get Here? 

Memories of Six Decades in Motorsport, and Musings on the Future of Formula 1 and the Planet

by Peter Wright

To say that Peter Wright is the guru of ground effect is like saying that Sir Ian McKellen is just the Gandalf guy. And that’s only one of the arrows in his quiver.

The Hidden Bugatti Diatto Alliance

by Claude Teisen-Simony

Bugatti’s government work during WWI had put money in his coffers—so he saw a bright future in continuing with aero engines afterwards. A business partner had a different idea, and that collaboration would shape the future of racing and luxury automobiles.

The Forbidden Bugatti Authentication Handbook

by Claude Teisen-Simony

This book is not for the casual enthusiast but for anyone wrestling with existential problems of authenticating high-dollar collectibles. More to the point, anyone who has found themselves on the barricades when no consensus can be achieved among parties with different interests or agendas.

Charlie Schwab, President of Carnegie Steel, U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel  

by William R. Huber

Somebody who should know (Thomas Edison) called him the “master hustler.” He became one of the very rich men of his time—and died in debt. Still, 2000 people lined the streets. So what sort of fellow was this?

Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories

by Giles Chapman

The author calls himself nosy—and proud of it. If he wasn’t (one or the other or both) there’d be no book, a selection of interviews he collected over a lifetime of talking to people.

Classic American Car Parts: A Pickers Guide to Buying & Selling

by David H. Lehr

If you want to learn about selling car parts, this book tells how to find, price, market, store and ship them. If you’re “just” a buyer, you’ll get a glimpse of how a dealer sees you.

The Rover Story 

by Graham Robson

Except for Land Rovers you can’t buy a new Rover anymore these days but you can now get this long out of print book again. Well-organized, it focuses on the core period 1877–1988 while also touching on the years before and after.

The Boats of Summer: New York Harbor and Hudson River Day Passenger and Excursion Vessels 

by Richard V. Elliott

In the early days, summer life in NYC meant catching a steamer upriver, perhaps returning by train. Two splendid books representing decades of research look at 63 of the over 1000 vessels that provided such a service, ending in the 1970s when diesels had already taken the place of steam.