Ikarus: Busse für die Welt
by Christian Suhr
If you like busses, you’ll want to know about Ikarus from Hungary and this is about the only book to do the job. From China to Canada, you may have ridden in one and not even known it!
The Pulitzer Air Races
by Michael Gough
In the space of only a few years, American flyers in American planes went from footnote to superstars—thanks to a series of races few seem to remember anymore. This is the first book exclusively devoted to them.
One Off: The Roads, The Races, The Automobiles of Toly Arutunoff
by Anatoly A. Arutunoff
The story of a supremely colorful life—that’s still going on, full bore. Well, almost. If you know anything about the beginnings of club racing in the US, this is a name you know—or should know.
The Watch Book
by Gisbert L. Brunner & Christian Pfeiffer-Belli
Sure, smartphones tell time—but that’s not what the engineering marvels and artworks that are the mechanical wristwatch are about. This book showcases 18 makers and highlights of their work.
Porsche 930 to 935: The Turbo Porsches
by John Starkey
If the book title sounds familiar it is because this is now the third edition. The previous ones quickly sold out but they had the field pretty much to themselves. Not anymore.
Intermeccanica: The Story of the Prancing Bull (rev. 2nd ed.)
Andrew McCredie & Paula Reisner
Having the good sense to work with skilled designers, Reisner turned out five attention-getting cars in 13 years. Half a century later Intermeccanica still turns out high-quality hand-built vehicles.
Ultra-Large Aircraft 1940–1970
by William Patrick Dean
“Volumetric fuselage aircraft”—if that’s not a word you normally use in a sentence, read this book to get insights into a very complicated subject and some very unusual aircraft.
Classic Grand Prix Cars
by Karl Ludvigsen
Why and how—and when—did F1 shift from front- to rear-engined racers? Back in print now this book offers the sort of in-depth analysis that has made Ludvigsen’s name.
Torpedo: The Complete History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
by Roger Branfill-Cook
Ships sink when they have a hole in them. How to put that hole into a ship, well, that’s not as easy as you might think. This very readable book offers a look into a world we rarely think about.
Porsche: Origin of the Species
by Karl Ludvigsen
Don’t be distracted by the various models of Porsche the company throws at the market in order to have “something for everyone”—at the core there is a discernible bloodline. Ludvigsen shows the connections and unearthed new ones.
Tupolev TU-22 Blinder
by Sergey Burdin & Alan E. Dawes
The West feared it, the Soviets had high hopes for it, but this pioneering supersonic bomber failed to live up to either. But it looked pretty. And crews could turn unused alcohol from the AC system into “vodka.” Nastrowje.
The Argentine Temporada Motor Races 1950 to 1960
by Hernan Lopez Laiseca
Fabulous photos, many new to the record, document a formative—and very dangerous—period in a corner of the world in which few people had a driver’s license but were all mad for racing.
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