Tom Cotter: 13 books
by Tom Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
**Tom Cotter is the best-known barn-find collector-car expert working today. *Tom Cotter's Best Barn-Find Collector Car Tales†‹ *pulls together his best barn find stories from America and around the globe. **
Tom Cotter bought his first barn find some 50 years ago and has never looked...
Motor City Barn Finds
Detroit's Lost Collector Cars
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Tom Cotter returns to troll through Detroit and discover long forgotten classics in Motor City Barn Finds. You won't believe some of the rides he finds.
Detroit has been America's Motor City for decades. It's home to Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, as well as numerous auto industry companies...
The Hemi in the Barn: More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Reviews: "Tom Cotter's sequel to last year's best-selling The Cobra in the Barn relays one great tale after another, with players unearthing rare cars to die for. The treasures include an armored Mercedes-Benz Aktion P command car discovered in pieces in Russia, a desirable Dodge Daytona Hemi...
Ford Model T Coast to Coast
A Slow Drive across a Fast Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Driverless cars are on the horizon, but before the world falls asleep in the driver’s seat, let’s take a look back down the road from whence we have come. Ford Model-T Coast-to-Coast, documents the cross-country adventure of two brave drivers as they pilot a century-old Model-T on a 3,000-mile...
Barn Find Road Trip
3 Guys, 14 Days and 1000 Lost Collector Cars Discovered
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Great collector cars are still out there--just waiting to be found! Sadly, there is very little reality in reality TV. That wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that these shows are the only TV shows for the barn-find collector car aficionado. Barn Find Road Trip is the antidote to all the manufactured...
Route 66 Barn Find Road Trip
Lost Collector Cars Along the Mother Road
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Abandoned cars on America's most iconic abandoned road. Sounds like a great idea for a road trip. For a nation that loves the idea of the road, there is no more legendary ribbon of highway than the 2,451 miles comprising historic Route 66. Along the Mother Road lies the detritus of the automotive...
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...
The Vincent in the Barn: Great Stories of Motorcycle Archaeology
Great Stories of Motorcycle Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
It's every motorcyclist's dream. A friend or acquaintance says, "You know, there's an old bike that's been sitting in this garage for years." The hunt is on. And rather than the usual worthless Hondazukimaha pile of hopeless oxidation, at the back of that barn you find a genuine classic,...
Cuba's Car Culture
Celebrating the Island's Automotive Love Affair
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Welcome to Cuba's automotive time capsule, filled with classic cars. The story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed healthy tourism trade and American outpost status, and by the 1950s it had the highest per capita automotive...
The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
Now in paperback for the first time, here is the classic version of a car lover's fairy tale: You look into an old abandoned barn or garage or warehouse--and there's the car you've searched for your whole life. Here are the true stories of people who found their dream cars in the most unlikely places:...
The Harley in the Barn
More Great Tales of Motorcycles Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Driving down a country road, a flash of chrome catches your eye as you pass an old farmstead. Next time you roll by, you slow down and focus on a shed behind the house. Could that be? Good lord, it is! Hard on the brakes, quick reverse, and pull in the drive. Yep, it’s a vintage Triumph Bonneville...
by Tom Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
101 barn-find tales sure to entice any car collector. In recent years, the quest to find and restore forgotten automotive gems has generated a cult-like following - a very large cult-like following. So large, in fact, that the subject of automotive archaeology has inspired an entire genre of television...
"TV" Tommy Ivo
Drag Racing's Master Showman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In the early 1960s, Tommy Ivo had the world in the palm of his hands. Still a young man, he was already a star of television and film with a promising Hollywood future ahead of him. Then his producers told him he had to quit drag racing. He quit the entertainment industry instead.
This is the...