Automotive category: 1940 books
The Longest Line on the Map
The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
From the award-winning author of American Canopy**, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth...
The First American Grand Prix
The Savannah Auto Races, 1908-1911
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This book provides an in-depth look at the great motor races that took place in Savannah, Georgia, in the golden era of early road racing: the Grand Prize of the Automobile Club of America and the Vanderbilt Cup. By examining Savannah’s earlier fame in national bicycle racing competitions and its...
Mad for Speed
The Racing Life of Joan Newton Cuneo
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo’s life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman for women drivers and good roads. Beginning with her family history and marriage to Andrew Cuneo, it traces her life in New York society, the birth of her...
Volkswagens of the World
A Comprehensive International Guide to Volkswagens not built in Germany ... and the unusual ones that were
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
A comprehensive guide to all the volkswagens not built in Germany, and the unusual ones that were. Includes VW type designations, chassis numbers, VW options, buggies, military, police, utility vehicles and all the lesser known models produced by VW around the world.
Volkswagen Camper
40 years of freedom: an A-Z of Popular Camper conversions
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
VW Buses command a massive following - with Campers being the most popular of all.Complementing the author’s successful volume covering the first three generations of Volkswagen’s legendary Transporter, this book delves exclusively into the spin-off conversions based on the VW Panelvan, Kombi and...
by Richard Copping
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
_x000B_Visit any VW show and what do you find? Correct - wall-to-wall Campers. Interest in the numerous conversions offered over the years spirals ever-upwards as do asking prices for even the most dilapidated examples of the first three generations and 40-years of VW Bus conversions. But are there books...
Volkswagen Beetle
The Essential Buyer’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
With the aid of this book's step-by-step expert guidance, you'll discover all you need to know about the car you want to buy. Unique point system will help you to place the cars value in relation to condition. This is an important investment - don't buy a car without this book's help.
Volkswagen Bus
The Essential Buyer’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Covering all the collectable Buses produced by Volkswagen between 1950 and 1990, this volume is unique in providing the full story of the high-points and pitfalls of buying such models. Written by enthusiasts, the easy readable text is informative to the novice, while still being of considerable value to those who have already owned a Bus._x000B_
by Richard Copping
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The VW Beetle is one of the best-loved of all classic cars, with many thousands preserved across the world, many in regular use. Over the years countless changes were introduced, together making a mid sixties Beetle, for instance, very different from one built in the mid-50s, or mid-70s, despite the...
Volkswagen
The air-cooled era in colour
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
All incredibly popular sixties design classics with enduring appeal, the original air-cooled Volkswagen cars and Transporters are fully explored in this fascinating book. A unique picture-led chronicle of the Volkswagen story through the fifties and sixties. This book makes extensive use of the artwork...
The Rootes Group
Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam, Singer, Commer, Karrier
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
The Rootes Group once dominated the British motor industry, and its legacy lives on in thousands of carefully maintained cars – most notably Hillmans, Humbers, Singers and Sunbeams. In this book, using beautiful images from the Rootes Archive Centre, Richard Loveys details the Group's history and...
Mazda MX-5 Miata
The book of the world’s favourite sportscar
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Mazda's superb convertible roadster has become by far the world's best-selling sports car. Here, in definitive detail, is the full story of the MX-5 (known as the Miata in the USA and Eunos Roadster in Japan) from inception in the early 1980s to the very latest third generation models. Researched in...
by Johnny Tipler
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
There is something special about Alfa Romeo cars which can’t be defined precisely but is, perhaps, best described as a vitality that creates a symbiosis between driver and machine: a oneness that no other marque seems to replicate.Alfa’s Berlinas have always tended to be overshadowed by their spotlight-grabbing...
Ferrari 250GT
Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
The Ferrari 250GT Berlinettas are undeniably beautiful and, arguably, the greatest Ferrari racing cars ever built. The 250 GT Competizione Berlinetta - now popularly known as the “Tour de France Berlinetta,” in honour of the model’s domination of the great French event with four outright victories...