Automotive category: 1940 books
Bluebird CN7
the inside story of Donald Campbell’s last Land Speed Record car
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Since the early 1920s the name Bluebird has been synonymous with world speed record breaking on land and water. Driven first by Sir Malcolm Campbell, then his son Donald, and latterly by Donald’s nephew Donald Wales in electric powered vehicles, they have consistently pushed records ever higher.This...
Advanced Transport Systems
Analysis, Modeling, and Evaluation of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
This book provides a systematic analysis, modeling and evaluation of the performance of advanced transport systems. It offers an innovative approach by presenting a multidimensional examination of the performance of advanced transport systems and transport modes, useful for both theoretical and practical...
by Mick Twemlow
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
The Vodka-Cola Cowboy describes life trucking in what is possibly the harshest environment, in the world - Russia. Between 1990 and 1995 British owner driver Mick Twemlow worked to transport goods to, from and within Russia and the wider Soviet Union. Living in Moscow with his future wife, Elena and...
Dixie Highway
Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes...
by John Gunnell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
The history of the fabulous Chevelle is almost as much of a secret as its "mystery" V-8 was back in the mid '60s. This book unveils the secrecy by providing total coverage of this fast-flying factory hot rod as well as extensive coverage of El Camino, Laguna, plus the modern-day Malibu and...
by Sloniger
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1961): “ …The rampant lion of Peugeot is really no newcomer to America.
Modern Peugeot fans tend to date their pleasure from a March day in 1958, when the New York Motor Show opened its doors. A key display, to their way of thinking, was that of Peugeot; these were the first...
GT
The world’s best GT cars 1953-1973
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Get behind the wheels of more than 50 of the most glamorous, beautiful, fast and capable cars of the fifties, sixties and seventies in this, the first of a series charting the true Grand Touring cars, the history and the culture of long distance travel and exotic locations. These are the cars that inhabited...
by Mr James Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
William Hillman started manufacturing cars in Coventry in 1907 before selling his company to the Rootes Brothers in 1928. Three years later came the Hillman Minx, the first of a line that would endure in multiple forms for nearly half a century, even after the remarkable Imp arrived in 1963 to claim...
by Charles Jarrott
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
“ …When the idea of this book was first suggested to me, although I had no misgivings as to the interest of its subject for myself and those immediately concerned, I had some misgiving as to my ability to make it interesting to the general reader. I may say that this misgiving is by no means abated...
Billy F Gibbons
Rock + Roll Gearhead
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Now available in paperback,Billy F Gibbonsthrows wide his garage and studio doors for an exclusive look at his exquisite vintage and way-out custom guitars and his influential hot rods and custom cars. From the mythical ’59 Les Paul sunburst known as Pearly Gates and the “Furry One” of MTV renown...
by Floyd Larck
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
The Ocala Pumpkin Run is one of the best car shows in the southeastern United States. Set in a laid back area deep in Marion County Florida on a farm owned by the renowned Castro family of Castro Convertibles.
The Ocala Pumpkin Run Illustrated is a short pictorial book I put together with pictures...
by John Carollo
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
From mild to wild, from stock to modified, the book covers everything you need to know about rebuilding and modifying the legendary 348-409 engines.
Show Rod Model Kits
A Showcase of America's Wildest Model Kits
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Whether you are interested in picking up the collecting hobby, just want a few cool kits from your childhood to display, or simply want to reminisce about building and obsessing over these crazy kits from your youth, Show Rod Model Kits: A Showcase of America's Wildest Model Kits will be a fun addition to your library.
How to Pass the ADI Exams
The Essential Guide to Passing Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the DSA Exams and Becoming an Approved Driving Instructor
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
How to Pass the ADI Exams provides all trainee ADIs with an indispensable guide to understanding and passing all three stages of the ADI exam process in the UK. Packed with practice questions, the book outlines the overall exam structure, before looking in detail at the three key areas - the theory...