A famed gearhead looks back at a lifetime of automotive passion.
Wayne Carini is a widely beloved classic car enthusiast. In My Life Chasing Classic Cars, this famed gearhead looks back at a lifetime pursuing his automotive passions. From learning about cars at his fathers side as a child through a career ......
The book that fans of the renegade racing series Can-Am have been waiting for.
Can-Am: the words are still magic to a generation of road racing fans to whom the Canadian-American Challenge Cup series represents the pinnacle of the sport they love. Taking over from the USRRC (United States Road Racing Championship) in ......
From James Gray, author of the bestselling Max Verstappen, comes the very first biography of Lewis Hamiltons designated successor George Russell, published to mark the British Grand Prix.
From dominating the karting tracks of East Anglia to the top of the podium in Formula 3 and Formula 2, George Russell ......
Death arrived early at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Two years before the track hosted its first 500-mile event, five drivers and spectators were killed during inaugural races on the Speedway. Death has lingered around the oval ever since. Over the past century, fatalities have mounted and a total of seventy-three drivers, mechanics, and ......
Whether you are a new or longtime F1 fan, here is your ultimate armchair companion to the popular Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive, providing deeper insight into all the shows plot points.
F1 expert Stuart Codling is your guide to all things F1. The Formula 1 Drive to Survive ......
A rich resource for investigating the history of a short-lived but influential British carmaker.
The Allard Motor Company archives are a particularly rich resource for those investigating the history and influence on the British motor industry of this short-lived but significant carmaker. The production records ......
Authentic Collectables are very proud to announce an exciting, limited edition hard cover book project being produced with Dick Johnson and acclaimed author John Smailes titled Dick Johnson Racing: The First To 1000 - Celebrating 1000 Championship Races 1981-2022.
Dick Johnson Racing is without doubt one of the most iconic teams in ......
The first book to tell the early history of cars in Los Angeles.
Los Angeless car culture has shaped the nations preferences in transportation, architecture, leisure, and even dining. The story of the automobile and that of Los Angeles have been entwined for more than a century. Driving Force: How Los Angeles Put ......
The authorized biography of a polymath racecar engineer.
This biography of Bill Sadler tells the story of an innovator who set the racing world astir with his boldly inventive cars. His original creations--including the Formula Libre and the Sadler Mark V--brought him racing victories at tracks such as Watkins Glen ......
The name Zora Arkus-Duntov has long been inextricably linked with Corvette in the minds of automotive historians and enthusiasts. But the story of Zora Arkus-Duntov runs far deeper than his twenty plus years of professional involvement as both Corvettes primary advocate within General Motors and as the fiberglass sports cars first chief ......
Danger Sound Klaxon! reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer technologies of the twentieth century. Although its metallic shriek at first shocked pedestrians, savvy advertising strategies convinced consumers across the United States and western Europe to adopt the shrill Klaxon ......
Formula One 2023, the worlds bestselling Grand Prix handbook, is the essential resource for the season ahead.
Formula 1 fans will be kept fully up to speed with detailed examinations of all the teams racing in 2023 (from Ferrari and Red Bull to Mercedes and Aston Martin), every driver in the competition ......
The Australian Grand Prix is the crown jewel of local motorsport, its also the gold standard by which Formula One GPs are judged. Each year since 1985 the Formula One circus has pitched its tent in Australia for an annual round of the World Championship.
Formula One was an immediate hit in Adelaide, spawning a golden era of 11 ......
Contrary to popular opinion, the automotive industry is not a mans world! Since the early days of General Motors, there have been women-known and unknown-who have had vital roles in design, engineering, manufacturing, and administration. In this follow-up to Damsels in Design, her book on women automotive designers from 1939-1959, Constance ......
This book contains many, many stories surrounding the subject of classic car ownership. With vehicles from around the world and from many marques, youll find stories that will feed your interest generally, plus find that something about a car that you love.
The stories are great and include detailed photographs that are sure to delight ......
She’s a Beauty! is back in print – but with a difference. Now in two volumes, this lavishly illustrated first volume documents the Holden story from 1934 to 1948. Volume Two will continue the story from 1949 to 1953, and in subsequent decades. Volume One, rich with new stories, photographs and facts, includes not only material from the 2006 ......
Discover the story behind the company and cars created by the visionary Carroll Shelby, who put Ford and, by extension, the United States on the international motorsports map.
Formed in 1962 with the creation of the Ford-powered AC Cobra, Shelby American then worked with Ford Motor Company to stun the ......
Rushie - Garry Rush A Motor Racing Life is a stunning 300-page hard-bound book that showcases Garrys racing life and moments that have led him to becoming an immortal of Australian Motor Sport.
As F1 enjoys one of its fiercest and most hotly contested rivalries in decades, this book delves into some of the blistering contests and feuds which have lit up the sport over the years.
The rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen is one of the fiercest we have seen in Formula One in ......
A candid and comprehensive overview of the work of a modern design master.
One of Italys most prolific designers in any field, Paolo Martin is a name perhaps best known to automotive aficionados. The visionary behind some of the most important cars of the 1960s and 70s--such as the Fiat 130 Coupe, the Lancia Beta ......
AUTOCOURSE 2022-23 72nd YEAR OF PUBLICATION In a dramatic season the Formula 1 World Championship was concluded in Abu Dhabi in a contentious late race finish which saw Max Verstappen overtake the helpless Lewis Hamilton to take his first world title. Mercedes and Hamilton - now the winningest driver in history - broke more records. The Briton ......
Throughout the history of the sports car, no marque has epitomized the excitement and passion of driving like Porsche. The Saratoga Automobile Museum, in collaboration with architect Steven Harris, presents 22 of the marques rarest air and water-cooled cars. This remarkable collection highlights the manufacturers past seven decades of ......
Journallist and broadcaster Andrew Marriott writes with a light and humorous touch about a multi-faceted career covering some six decades.
He reckons he was the youngest ever person to report a Formula 1 race for a national publication and now the oldest person to regularly report from the pit lanes of Le Mans, Daytona and ......
Jacky Ickx is one of the true greats of motor racing. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, he was both highly successful and hugely versatile, racing at the highest level in a wide variety of categories - including Formula 1, sports cars, touring cars and rally raids - and winning throughout. Among many accolades, he won the Le Mans 24 Hours ......
The Monaco Grand Prix is considered one of the most demanding races in Formula 1. Constant gear changes and the slowest corner in the world championship have always demanded everything from the racing drivers.
Edward Quinn captured the most famous car race in the world from 1950 to 1965 in numerous photos. In his recordings, the ......
Produced with the full support and involvement of Jim and his family, ‘Gentleman Jim: The Official Racing History of Jim Richards’, tells the story of Richards’ amazing career, beginning in his native New Zealand and following his racing journey that took him to Australia in the mid 1970s and onto a career the likes of which have not been seen ......
The iconic voice of our sport and a great man. * Lewis Hamilton *
Maybe old soldiers never die? His legacy and his memory is so strong, and what he gave to so many Formula 1 fans and number of people he affected, he became bigger than the sport, so we have got a lot to be thankful to Murray for. * Damon Hill *
Genius broadcaster ......
Brian Cunninghams first book, Under the Bonnet, was a colourful and humorous collection of memories of his time as a car mechanic in the 1970s and 80s. When he wrote it, he was sure he had put everything of interest down, but the many letters he received from appreciative readers reminded him of plenty more escapades. When the Wheels Come Off ......
32 Ford Coupe Comes Back to Life. 115 Color Pictures.
Discovered in the deep woods of Minnesota in 1985, Dick Stoebel brought a rusted-out 32 Ford coupe hulk back to life over eight years of innovation, help from friends, and "good old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity."
Using skills he had acquired restoring other vehicles and ......
Formula One is known for glitz and glamour, but lurking in the background are dark, and sometimes deeply strange, goings on: sex scandals with prison camp themes, Nigerian prince scams, protests of its grands prix in countries known for their human rights violations, tax evasion--the list goes on. These things often stay in the background, ......
F1 is one of the most watched sports on the planet with some of the highest paid athletes in the world. For over a decade Lee McKenzie has been at the heart of it all. Thanks to a relaxed but informative interview style, she has become one of the most respected F1 presenters and interviewers in the sport, with drivers requesting her for ......
This book presents the first 50 years of the history of the Misano World Circuit "Marco Simoncelli". This historic track - the "Autodromo del mare" or seaside circuit - has witnessed unforgettable chapters in the history of motorsport, on two wheels and four, from the very first season in 1972 when the facility was inaugurated, through to the ......
Why does a man with a Ferrari and a Porsche drive a Fiat Panda? Is going fast really necessary? Is it your fault if you get run over? Why will electric cars really save the planet (possibly)?
In Carbolics the UKs favourite petrol head (after Clarkson and Hammond) James May answers these questions and ......
Shelby American didnt last long, but it was a flame that burned incandescently before being extinguished by corporate politics. In less than a decade, it created a legacy that will be revered as long as cars still roar around racetracks. Now, on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of this iconic company, Shelby American: The Renegades ......
The Lamborghini Countach: a remarkable supercar, a car of extreme and timeless appeal is the protagonist of this new monograph. The book opens with the long period of gestation in which Marcello Gandini - then head of design at Carrozzeria Bertone - defined the futuristic lines of a car that, to many at first sight seemed to have come from ......
The entire technical evolution and the competition history of a rally car as glorious as it was "unexpected" enclosed in a single volume. The Fiat 131, born as a tranquil family car, proved capable of transforming into a formidable rally competitor. This monograph draws on the testimony of the engineers who contributed to its creation and the ......
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