The Bristol Aeroplane Company grew fairly rapidly from small beginnings. What had been a tentative effort to serve the fledgling aviation market was so successful in design and engineering that it was perfectly placed to respond to the needs of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. By the Second World War Bristol was a household name, and during the hostilities the firm produced over 14,000 aircraft, including the Blenheim fighter-bomber. After the war the company first became invol...
If ever there was a deserving recipient of the title 'Great Car', it is the Jaguar E-type. Produced from 1961 to 1975, this is a sports car that even today is instantly recognisable by people of all ages and is one of the best-known design icons of the sixties. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the E-type, this book is an expanded second edition of a highly successful title in the Haynes "Great Cars" series, featuring a new section called 'The E-type today'.
"Darwin Holmstrom's Top Muscle is a look at over two dozen of the rarest one-offs and production vehicles from the muscle-car era of the late 60s and early 70s. Featuring new and original photography of every car, this book chronicles the biggest and baddest in the heyday of American muscle"-- "A muscle-car book unlike any other, featuring the rarest vehicles on Earth. In the 1960s, something explosive happened in the automotive world: the United States' evolving V-8 engine technology was met b...
Wheels Across the Aussie Outback (Photos from the Aussie Outback, #1)
by Pete Rumball
Founded over 90 years ago in Malvern Link, a West Midland backwater of rural England, Morgan is one of the oldest sports car makers in the world, probably the most independent, certainly the quirkiest. Perhaps personified by the plus 8, the Morgan's shape and presence are unmistakable: long bonnet with fly-pressed louvres; distinctive wheel-arches; wire wheels; upholstered by Connolly; the colour of your choice. And you almost know by the way it moves that it is coach-built on a wooden sub-frame...
Michael Schumacher: the greatest of all time. A champion with a reputation founded on records, the man who has brought most glory to Ferrari in the modern era. With a dramatic coda to the story that we like to think of as a pit stop before a return to the race, to normality. Michael Schumacher enthralled a generation of fans, but not all the episode in his remarkable career are widely known. While it is true that it is in the nooks and crannies of life great novels are born, in this book there i...
Le Mans 24 Hours: The Official History of the World's Greatest Motor Race 1970-79 (Le Mans Official History, #3)
by Quentin Spurring
Officially licensed with the ACO, the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this sumptuous book will be the second title in a decade-by-decade series that will eventually build up into an eight-volume set covering every race since 1923. Each year will be exhaustively covered in vivid photographs, a detailed race account, full results data and a glorious rendering of the official race poster. Compiled by an acknowledged authority of this legendary race, this series of books will be trea...
The inside story of the creation of Rallye Sport Fords in the 70s and 80s. Popular with enthusiasts, essential for works teams and private owners to compete in motor sport, these affordable performance cars achieved phenomenal success in rallying and racing.In the 60s Ford built the sensational Le Mans-winning GT40, started making high performance production cars the Lotus Cortina and Twin Cam Escort, and recognizing how motor sport success had improved the company's image, sponsored Cosworth in...
Road Life introduces you to 35 inspirational people from across the globe who've made their vans, campers and buses part of their lifestyle, and provides you with the tools to do the same. What's the appeal of a life on the road, with everything you need contained on four wheels? Tried it yourself and felt inadequate and underprepared? Or feel daunted by converting a vehicle yourself? The campers in this book can show you how to roll up in style. From expert craftsmen who've converted entire bus...
Trucks in 1, 000 Photos
by Gilbert Lecat, Jean-Michel Lelingny, and Francis Reyes
A history of commercial general heavy goods vehicles and the accompanying lifestyle. This pictorial record also offers an overview of the top US and European manufacturers and vehicle design. Other special sections cover uniquely personalized vehicles, truck racing and special purpose HGVs.
Since it galloped onto the automotive scene in the early 1960s, the Ford Mustang has become an American icon. With hundreds of photographs celebrating the evolution of this treasured sports car, including many from the archives of the Ford Motor Company, this comprehensive volume explores the Mustang in terms of its design, engineering, and racing genealogy, as well as its impact on American popular culture. The Mustang will celebrate its 45th anniversary in 2009.