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Before World War II Aston Martin had made some stunning sports cars but had undergone numerous financial crises. The company was bought by David Brown in 1947, and in 1950 he launched the all-new DB2 with a brilliant engine designed by W.O. Bentley. The...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

The revealing and surprising inside story of the legendary BMC Works Competitions Department told by the three Competition Managers of the highly successful BMC/British Leyland race and rally teams based at Abingdon. The book reveals the inner workings...

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...

Encompassing the full development of the Triumph 2000, from the early Vanguard model to the Mark 2 models, this book covers the revolutionary aspects of Triumph engineering, including the small-capacity six-cylinder engine and independent suspension, as...

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...

Austin, Hillman, Morris, Standard and Wolseley were a handful of the myriad marques that once constituted Britain's indigenous motor industry. Born in 1896 into the high summer of Victorian prosperity, the native British industry survived until the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855202528Author Brooklands Books LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Brooklands Books LtdPublisher Brooklands Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869826710Author Brooklands Books LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Brooklands Books LtdPublisher Brooklands Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855200906Author Brooklands BooksFormat PaperbackImprint Brooklands Books LtdPublisher Brooklands Books Ltd

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...

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 chapter signed by Luca Dal Monte, deals with the company history and the marque's industrial matters: from the early years, when production was concentrated on racing cars, to the advent of the first GT of the immediate post-war period through...

The Lotus Europa was Colin Chapman and Lotus's first mid-engined road car, and was produced from 1966 through to 1975. Originally designed to slot into the Lotus range below the Elan as a low cost replacement for the Lotus 7, the Europa eventually sat...

In the 1930s, Bentley's Derby factory supplied only chassis, without bodies, and customers for these refined, fast and enormously desirable cars would then select and turn to one of the many coachbuilders to design and construct a body for them to meet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913797034Author ANDREW WILTSHIREFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bernard McCallPublisher Bernard McCall

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorA medical writer by profession, Peter Crespin has written seven books about Jaguars and contributed articles to various car and motorcycle magazines over the last...

Between the 1930s and 1960s, during the peak of Britain's railways, road hauliers were in stiff competition to transport goods. The commercial vehicles used during this period varied from articulated lorries to vans, trucks, recovery vehicles and...

The first edition of the present book was published in 2014 and was quickly acclaimed as the bible of the classic Jaguar racers. This greatly expanded new edition runs to more than 400 pages and contains 500 illustrations. It brings the individual...

This is a comprehensive study of the career of the Toyota Celica GT-Four. Starting in 1988, three generations of this effective turbocharged four-wheel-drive car - known by enthusiasts as ST165, ST185 and ST205 types - fought for World Championships, and...

The X300 was the first serious model development in collaboration with Ford and the cars benefited in quality terms as a result. Problems do exist, however, especially with the X308 models which followed in 1997. Though they are excellent value today, it...

This new book, the first in the CarCraft series delivers an innovative presentation to the car enthusiast by covering the engineering, design, and modelling of one of motoring's greatest cars across all its epochs. Ettore Bugatti changed engineering...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855202504Author Brooklands Books LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 840Imprint Brooklands Books LtdPublisher Brooklands Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855202726Author Brooklands Books LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Brooklands Books LtdPublisher Brooklands Books LtdDimensions(mm) 290mm * 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907085536Author Serge VanbockryckFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Porter Press InternationalPublisher Porter Press International

Benefit from the author's decades of working on and writing about Triumphs, with the real facts you need to decide whether a sports Triumph is going to suit you. The book covers all small sports Triumph models, explains how and where to buy one, how to...

The Only Route 66 Guidebook with a Fully Integrated App! Deviate from the norm, go a bit farther, and make your trip uniquely yours. Put discovery and wonder back into your travels. Roadtrippers Route 66 celebrates life's detours and on-the-road...

Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance,...

The Complete Book of Chevrolet Camaro, 2nd Edition profiles every model of Camaro from 1967 to the start of the fifth generation. See it all here.The Complete Book of Chevrolet Camaro, 2nd Edition continues the story of America's premier performance car...

The story of the air-cooled 'big' Kawasaki bikes in definitive detail, researched and written in Japan with the full co-operation of the factory. This series of models put the company on the map during the sixties and seventies, helping it to survive a...

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...

The field of aerodynamics has had an increasingly significant effect on performance enhancement over the past 50 years. Competition Car Aerodynamics 3rd Edition continues the practical, hands-on approach of its popular predecessors to cover all aspects...

This book is designed to give guidance on the original, ex-factory, specifications of the coil-sprung utility Land Rovers built between 1983 and 1990. Known to Land Rover as stage 2 models, they were sold as the Land Rover One Ten, Ninety and (later)...

The car that would become the DB7 began its gestation in 1991. Developed entirely under the ownership of Ford, this new smaller Aston Martin was intended to add a new higher-volume strand to Aston Martin's range, and when the good-looking car was...