Veloce imprint: 339 books
BRM V16
How Britain’s auto makers built a Grand Prix car to beat the world
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Few cars of any kind have a more exotic and exciting reputation among enthusiasts than the first BRM, a 16-cylinder wonder machine that was a bright beacon of promise in Britain _x0019_s drab post-war years. Heralded as a certain race winner and backed by the nation _x0019_s motor industry, exploiting...
Ford Cleveland 335-Series V8 engine 1970 to 1982
The Essential Source Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The definitive history of 335-Series Cleveland Small Block Ford V8 Engines produced in the USA, Canada and Australia between 1970-1982. Years of meticulous and dedicated research have allowed Des Hammill to collate extensive and accurate information to produce this fully comprehensive, unique...
Dodge Challenger & Plymouth Barracuda
Chrysler’s Potent Pony Cars
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The ultimate Chrysler pony car book written in Peter’s now familiar and welcome unpretentious style, featuring every series and model of pony car made by the Chrysler Corporation in the 1960s and 70s, including the slippery Barracuda and classic Dodge Challenger, along with stars of the big screen and drag strip.
Hot Rod & Stock Car Racing
in Britain in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Short oval racing (Hot Rod and Stock Car Racing) was, and remains, one of the best supported forms of motor racing in the country, in terms of both competitors and spectators. Hot Rod and Stock Car Racing had seen packed terraces throughout the sixties and seventies, as the public went to local circuits...
Autodrome
The lost race circuits of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Around Europe lie a number of long forgotten monuments, wind swept and abandoned the derelict buildings and crumbling tarmac are all that remains of once great motor racing circuits. From the great speed bowls of Monza and Brooklands, to the parkland of Crystal Palace. All photographed as they are now but remembered in their prime.
by Graham Templeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
At last a practical handbook on how to choose and operate datalogging equipment and get the full benefit from what it tells you. Aimed at the amateur competitor, it covers hardware and software and takes over where the manufacturers instructions run out. It shows how to understand what the data is telling...
Formula 5000 Motor Racing
Back then ... and back now
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book covers a very popular ‘formula' of racing cars that is generally untapped as a subject by other authors. Although Formula 5000 has never had the mass appeal of F1, in some instances the cars and drivers became favourites of spectators across the globe. Some drivers went on to great fame after...
Fast Ladies
female racing drivers 1888 to 1970
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
It took a great deal of determination on the part of women to sweep aside male resistance in the inner circles of the motor sport world. Discover the statuesque Camille du Gast of the 1903 Paris-Madrid race; dancer Hellé Nice, the ‘Bugatti queen'; Violette Morris, the ‘Hyena of the Gestapo'; the...
VW Golf
Five Generations of Fun
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The combination of model history, coupled to hot hatch performance, all comprehensively illustrated through major photo shoots and detail pictures, make this the complete guide to the first five generations Golf, including the classic GTIs. With all models, including Golf spin-offs, assessed, enthusiast-driving...
Art Deco and British Car Design
The Airline Cars of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
This is a book about automotive styling, in particular the streamlined styling that defined what are now known as Airline cars. During the mid-1930s the majority of British car manufacturers and coachbuilders experimented with streamlined styling. This fashion was the result of Art Deco, an international...
by David Pullen CEng CEnv MIAgrE
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Collecting farm models is a popular hobby worldwide. Britains has been a leading manufacturer of these models for over eighty years, producing many initiative standard setting models. The company launched its first model baler in the late 1960s and its first combine ten years later, receiving the UK...
Preston Tucker & Others
Tales of brilliant automotive innovators & innovations
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Can you imagine a world where people drive beautiful and unusual cars, created by designers prodigiously endowed with talent and imagination?Names like Preston Tucker, Carl Borgward and John DeLorean are hardly known today. Nevertheless, todays cars would be a lot different without their contributions...
by Peter Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
All you could want to know, and all the expert tips, about getting the maximum performance from the MGB's four-cylinder B-series engine for road or track. A book packed with understandable and down to earth advice based on the author's years of hands-on e
How to Power Tune Harley Davidson 1340 Evolution Engines
For Road & Track
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
A complete practical guide on how to get more power with reliability from Harley's Evolution V-twin engine without wasting money on modifications that don't work and over-specced parts. Includes cylinder head planing and porting; valves, valve springs and valve seats; carburetors, camshafts and followers;...