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Youre building a hot rod. The first step is the chassis. If its not right, the car wont handle well. If its really not right, the car might destroy itself. There are choices to be made, from frame rails to suspension components, and some combinations...

Once upon a time it was easy to tell one make of car from another. The shape of the grille or a distinctive badge was all that was required to tell the onlooker what they were looking at. Sadly those days are behind us, but the rich history of those...

Buying a performance car is an expensive business and mistakes can prove costly financially and in terms of time, effort and stress. Wouldn't it be great if you could take an expert with you? With the aid of this book's step-by-step guidance from a...

Forty years ago Alf Townsend passed The Knowledge - after 14,000 miles on a moped round central London. Since then he has covered millions of miles in his taxi. This book includes a selection of his extraordinary and hilarious tales of everyday life as a...

Forty years ago Alf Townsend passed The Knowledge - after 14,000 miles on a moped round central London. Since then he has covered millions of miles in his taxi. This book includes a selection of his extraordinary and hilarious tales of everyday life as a...

The names 'Keith Duckworth' and 'DFV' are practically synonymous, such is the reputation of the famous F1 racing engine which he designed. Whilst there are books covering the technical aspects of the DFV engine, and other designs from Cosworth, the...

Using his own wealth of hands-on experience, combined with input from many owners and aided by the top TR7 & TR7 V8 specialists on both sides of the Atlantic, Roger Williams explains, in great detail, how to increase the performance, improve the...

The R-Series BMW MINI had a lot to live up to. Launched in 2001, it was riding in the wake of the classic 1959-2000 Mini. At the time, BMW were going to have to create something as special and innovative as its longstanding predecessor in order to...

Clem Beckett was fourteen when he first rode a homemade motorcycle over the cobbled streets of his hometown. It was the start of a lifelong love affair with speed and machines. For Beckett, the motorbike was a means of escape from the uncertain future of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908347206Author Robert W. BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Nostalgia Road Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Mercedes 126 S-Class of 1979-1991 remains the most successful premium saloon in the company's history and is considered by many to be one of the best cars in the world. "You don't simply decide to buy an S-Class: it comes to you when fate has...

Give in to the lure of the untethered life as a van lifer Thousands of people around the world live nomadic lifestyles from the comfort of their vans or campers, free from the worries of having a permanent residence. If this growing alternative lifestyle...

Rolls-Royces and Bentleys are among the most prestigious cars in the world and, as such, attract a highly discerning clientele. The Silver Shadow, along with its rarer sibling the Bentley T, were the first Rolls-Royce designed models to feature modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843096894Author Carroll JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing

In 1904, when Leicester Corporation opened its state-of-the-art electric tram network, it enjoyed a monopoly on routes and convenient central terminal points. But soon the first small independent motor bus companies became active, and by 1921, Midland...

As time goes by, older SLs have tended to fall into the hands of collectors, often becoming too valuable or rare to use on a daily basis. The R230-series, however, launched just over a decade ago, allows the enthusiast to enjoy a genuine modern classic ...

'Passengers' is a social history of Britain between 1790 and 1840. This is the period of the Napoleonic War and of rapid technological change and social tension. It was a contradictory age, simultaneously the elegant era of Jane Austen and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639671Author George ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 295mm...

This book on the Porsche 911 (997) is the fifth of six planned in The Essential Companion series, and the fourth with Veloce Publishing. It carries on the tradition established with Adrian Streather's first Porsche 911 book on the 964 series, and...

The Series III Land Rover further developed the successive refinements of the Series I, II and IIA models, yet remained true to its original design as a utility vehicle for farmers; one that could be repaired and maintained with the minimum of specialist...

Inspired by the sight of RAF Lightning fighter interceptors climbing vertically into the sky at 50,000 feet per minute and by other British engineering and design achievements, Richard Noble, determined to put Britain back in the lead during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850106166Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals IncWeight(grams) 402gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670092246Author Gautam SenFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 240mm * 160mm * 30mm

"This lovely book focuses on Porsche collectors and enthusiasts all over the world, taking readers on detailed investigations of the motivations behind their manias." - Brett Berk, Car and Driver And Road & Track A garage with a Porsche is therefore...

Lotus introduced the Type 75 Elite in 1974. Being a full four-seater coupe with an opening glass tailgate, it was designed to carry a family in comfort while retaining Lotus' trademark, excellent road holding and handling. Perhaps most importantly, it...

In this, his second album on Irish buses, Richard Newman, not a local but a native of Portsmouth, takes us on a journey through the interesting bus scene of an Ireland very different to today, the Ireland of the mid-1960s.In 1964, Richard had acquired an...

The 8C Competizione was launched in 2008, a synthesis of the new "Alfa Romeo philosophy", the marque's strategy to reaffirm its uniqueness and ability to bring together emotion, engineering and aerodynamic efficiency and the exaltation of driving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143037Author Ken BlackerFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

The British car manufacturer, Lola, is probably the best-known and most-respected builder of racing cars, and has built successful cars for almost every racing formula. This book covers the 63 types of Lola car built between 1957 and 1977, and is written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906133597Author Graham RobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Herridge & Sons LtdPublisher Herridge & Sons LtdWeight(grams) 1488gDimensions(mm) 260mm...

Two Summers offers a fresh, revealing and highly personal look at the culture of Grand Prix racing as it was during the 1954 and 1955 championships, with individual portraits of the twelve races in which the Mercedes-Benz W 196 R participated. This book...

W. Heath Robinson is best known for his hilarious drawings of zany contraptions, though his work ranged across a wide variety of topics covering many aspects of British life in the decades following the First World War. Starting out as a watercolour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639640Author George ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613252550Author Arvid SvendsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint CartechPublisher CartechWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

This book describes the birth, development, and rallying car of the turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza in the 1990s and early 2000s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport.About...

This colourful introduction to the first decades of the motor car covers its earliest iterations, when the automobile represented the very peak of technological innovation. It is packed with fascinating facts about the experimental origins of the motor...

This book provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and looks...

Born In London, the son of a successful builder and developer, Mike Thorne gravitated to agriculture in his teens and soon became familiar with the tractors then used on the land, having a particular admiration for the revolutionary grey Ferguson, with...

The first in a series of SLK titles, this detailed volume, written with the full co-operation of Mercedes-Benz, reveals the full history of the first generation 'Sportlich, Leicht und Kurz' - the SLK. Starting with an introduction to, and history of,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907085468Author Chas ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Porter Press InternationalPublisher Porter Press International