Veloce imprint: 339 books
Alfa Mail
Open letters from a part-time petrol head
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Alfa Mail is about Alfa Romeos. What made them great and what will probably make them extinct. It’s also about other cars too great, good, bad and appalling plus planes, bikes, places, people, prejudice ... and tractors.Motor vehicles are the greatest practical enablers of the 20th Century (even...
by Alastair Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
The Café Racer captures the very essence of motorcycling, with its stripped-to-the-bone styling and a timeless blend of cat-quick chassis, matched to a barn-storming engine.From its roots in the '59 Club, home-brewed specials and the creation of the Triton by Dave Degens, the Café Racer became the...
Edward Turner
The man behind the motorcycles
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
For the first time the life of Edward Turner, one of Britain _x0019_s most talented motorcycle designers, is revealed in full, so this is much more than just another book about Triumph motorcycles. Although seen by many as an irascible man who ran a very tight ship, it is an inescapable fact that that...
Cortina
The Story of Ford’s Best-seller
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In the 1960s the Cortina was an entirely new type of British car, light yet strong, cheap to buy yet roomy. It established a new class of car - the 'Cortina Class' - and Ford's rivals had to rush to compete. Not only was the Cortina the first, it was the best, too; a fascinating, ever-evolving project...
Hillclimbing & Sprinting
The Essential Manual
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Hillclimbing & Sprinting - collectively known as Speed Eventing - is one of the most popular ways of getting into UK motor sport. The events are accessible, straightforward & inexpensive, yet are held in an informal, friendly but competitive atmosphere. Some 400 such events take place in the UK each...
Ford GT40
Production & Racing History, Individual Chassis History
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Born of the Ford Motor Company’s absolute determination to beat Ferrari at LeMans, the Ford GT40 would not only achieve this goal in the most resounding manner, but would also become one of the best-loved and most charismatic sports racing cars of all time.Here, in definitive detail, is the full story...
Subaru Impreza
The road car & WRC story
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Perceived as a replacement for the long running Leone, the Impreza quickly gained a good reputation through Subaru’s successful WRC programme. This book covers the full story of the Impreza, from concept through to the current production car, looking at the rally machines along the way, and illustrated throughout with contemporary material.
Lola T70
Revised 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Lola T70 was the car that Eric Broadley wanted to build for Ford instead of the GT40. He thought the GT40 too conservative in specification for a state-of-the-art sports racing car, so he split with the giant corporation to build the T70 under the aegis of his own company: Lola. Immediately successful,...
Off-Road Giants!
Heroes of 1960s Motorcycle Sport
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
If you can recall watching motorcycle scrambles and trials on your black and white TV during the 1960s, then this is the book for you. It’s a trip down memory lane as the author recalls boyhood journeys in his big brothers ex-GPO van to watch the stars in action, some of the world’s best, including...
Unraced ...
Formula One’s lost cars
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Formula 1, the worlds most popular motor sport, from a totally new perspective . Hidden in workshops around the world lie forgotten and abandoned machines - their builder’s dream unfulfilled. These purpose built cars have never started a race, never felt the excitement of a grand prix. Yet they define...
The Dune Buggy Handbook
The A-Z of VW-based Buggies since 1964 - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
The book introduces the reader to the whole cult of the dune buggy, from its earliest beginnings as a crude off-road vehicle in the 1920s, to the explosion of glass fibre-bodied and VW-based fun cars that became the cult transport of teenagers everywhere in the 1960s and 1970s. With histories, production...
How to Build a Successful Low-Cost Rally Car
For Marathon, Endurance, Historic and Budget-car Adventure Road Rallies
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book sets out in graphic detail a hundred tips that cost very little but which will transform your car. For example, how a wire coat-hanger transforms an exhaust system so that it can survive the Sahara Desert, how a tube of bathroom silicone sealer waterproofs an engine, and how a garden chain...
Motorcycle Road & Racing Chassis
A modern review of the best independents
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book is an account of the companies and individuals, who have played a major part in the design and advancement of motorcycle frame (chassis) performance. These independent companies began to spring up in the early postwar years, when motorcycle racing began to take place again. Due to the lack...
Triumph Production Testers’ Tales
from the Meriden Factory
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
From the 1950s through to the 1970s, Hughie Hancox worked at the Triumph Meriden factory in various capacities a fitter, a member of the famous Royal Corps of Signals Motorcycle Display Team, in the experimental department (where he actually worked on the prototype Bonneville), and eventually as one...