Antique category: 247 books
Peking to Paris
Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A Publishers Weekly Top-10 Travel Book: A couple embarks on an auto race, and whether it’s the antique car or the marriage, something’s bound to break down…
Dina Bennett nicknamed her restored 1940 Cadillac LaSalle “Roxanne.” In the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, it was known as...
Fast N' Loud
Blood, Sweat and Beers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The breakout star of Discovery’s hit automotive restoration show Fast N’ Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details and jaw-dropping stories, and injected with the...
Amazing Barn Finds and Roadside Relics
Musty Mustangs, Hidden Hudsons, Forgotten Fords, and Other Lost Automotive Gems
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Something that to the rest of the world is nothing but a forgotten automotive hulk slowly degenerating into a pile of iron oxide is to the car enthusiast something so much more. Like those who restore Victorian homes or antique furniture, car guys see not a decrepit piece of junk, but a desirable...
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...
Auto Biography
A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government...
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...
by Douglas Keister
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Buckle up as Douglas Keister takes you for a decidedly retro ride in the world of diminutive travel trailers in Teardrops and Tiny Trailers. The demand for vintage trailers-the smaller the better-has risen dramatically in recent years, with the most in-demand trailers being "teardrops,"...
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...