Antique Classic category: 247 books
Porsche 914
An Enthusiast's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The Porsche 914 was born into consistently confusing and troubled times at Porsche and Volkswagen, not least with the idea of a non-911 Porsche horrifiying many at the time. A Porsche with an engine that wasn't in the back was simply unthinkable. Richard Gooding examines the story of a car of mixed...
Citroën 2 CV
The iconic deudeuche
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
The Citroën 2CV is a true classic and deserves its place in the history of the automobile.
Originally designed as a cheap and easy-to-use car in the French countryside.
She has become an art of living !
This book looks at the history of this unusual vehicle from its pre-war design to the last car …
Corvettes
Images & Stories About America's Great Sports Car
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Whether you have owned one or just wished you did, Corvettes evoke glamour, elegance, speed, a little danger, and a sense of American pride. In this book, Harvey Goldstein pairs decades-spanning photos of these classic sportscars with great stories from Corvette owners. As you explore the words and...
Me and My MG
Stories from MG Owners Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Read about the Berkshire restorer who saw a heap of old iron in the bushes and realized it used to be a 1926 bullnose Super Sports, and the seven year old boy in Norfolk, Virginia, who read a book called The Red Car and knew that, one day, he would have to have a TC, and the Dutch boy who saw an MGB...
The Corvette in the Barn: More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
It's every car-guy's fantasy-to casually peer into a long-forgotten garage or barn or warehouse and find the car he has searched for his whole life. Corvette in the Barn is a collection of true, often amazing, stories and essays about car collectors and enthusiasts who have discovered unusual and...
by Leo Santucci
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This new revised edition brings the state of the art to every chapter. 203 great photos have been added. 30 additional blueprints provide even more details. Includes a brand new aftermarket heads and blocks section. Build sheets have been developed and organized to provide a clear record of your engine...
Ford Flathead V-8 Builder's Handbook 1932-1953
Restorations, Street Rods, Race Cars
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
How to rebuild all Ford or Mercury V8 flatheads for stock or high horsepower. Down-to-earth facts help you select components like an expert. Everything you must know about boring, stroking, porting & relieving, balancing. Camshaft selections available today. Pistons & crankshafts--which are...
by Editors of Chevy High Performance Mag
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Now readers can turn their Chevelle or El Camino into the ultimate street machine.
Here is a compilation of tech articles from Chevy High Performance, the most popular magazine among Chevy enthusiasts. Includes articles on engine performance, tires, wheels, suspension, bodywork, exhaust,...
Mercedes-Benz W111 Fintail with buyer's guide and chassis number/data card explanation
From the 220b, the 230S to the 220SE Cabriolet
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
The Mercedes-Benz six-cylinder W111 Sedan followed in 1959 the successful ponton Mercedes and was the first development with a keen eye on safety and on broadening the export business. The 220SE two-door versions, introduced in 1961, followed on the unaltered sedan chassis and were praised for their...
Growing up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel:
An American Auto Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Witty and softly sardonic, William Schiffs autobiographical romp describes his lifelong travels from early childhood to the Golden Years. Growing Up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel: An American Auto Biography is framed in a web of Americana, including cars he has ridden in, driven, modified, and...
by Arthur Pound
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
“ …GENERAL MOTORS in 1933 reached its twenty-fifth milestone. Since the founding of General Motors Company of New Jersey in 1908, the growth of the organization has contributed a unique chapter to American industrial history. From beginnings so small that its birth escaped notice in financial...
Automotive giants of America
Men who made our Motor Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1926): Curiosly, although our automobile industry is young, its leaders are not young men. Every one of the twenty is self-made. No other industry in this country or anywhere else in the world ever enjoyed such growth or accomplished so much in the brief space of twenty-five...
Cars
Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Sources are eclectic, results mixed, but one thing is certain: car design is being forced up an ever tightening spiral of creativity. These machines are memorials of our tastes, yearnings and capabilities. They have layers of meaning and can, as Henry Ford knew, be read like a book... if only you...
Mercedes-Benz 300SL W198 with chassis number/data card explanation
From the 300SL Gullwing to the Roadster
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Interested in the Mercedes-Benz 300SL? Then you will like to read this 250-page guide. It shows you the car's history and explains chassis number and data card. It also comes with superb recent non-Daimler AG color photos, including pictures of the suspension. These are some of the topics covered:
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