A famed gearhead looks back at a lifetime of automotive passion.
Wayne Carini is a widely beloved classic car enthusiast. In My Life Chasing Classic Cars, this famed gearhead looks back at a lifetime pursuing his automotive passions. From learning about cars at his fathers side as a child through a career ......
The book that fans of the renegade racing series Can-Am have been waiting for.
Can-Am: the words are still magic to a generation of road racing fans to whom the Canadian-American Challenge Cup series represents the pinnacle of the sport they love. Taking over from the USRRC (United States Road Racing Championship) in ......
Ken Tyrrell’s famous Formula 1 racing team will forever be associated with Jackie Stewart and the three World Championship titles they won together. But the Tyrrell story is far bigger than that, embracing nearly 40 action-packed years, from initial forays as an entrant in Formula Junior in 1960 to eventual demise in 1998. Along the way, the ......
Mauro Forghieri, the legendary engineer for Ferrari cars, who died in 2022, dictated the story of his working life with Ferrari to Daniele Buzzonetti before his death. In this new book, Buzzonetti turns that story into a riveting read, that will fascinate all lovers of endurance and F1 motor racing.
Arguably the fiercest and most hotly contested sport in the world, Formula One Icons details some of the most memorable cars to have ever raced in the sport, along with the most iconic tracks on the Formula One circuit. Formula One Icons gives a detailed account of the legendary cars, tracks and teams that cemented their place in the history of ......
A rich resource for investigating the history of a short-lived but influential British carmaker.
The Allard Motor Company archives are a particularly rich resource for those investigating the history and influence on the British motor industry of this short-lived but significant carmaker. The production records ......
Wit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road.
Driving one highway after another at sunrise, winding through the mountainside, hearing the call to rise of the roosters, or simply exchanging "fishing stories" with the other guys at the truck stops. Like that one about the trucker who stopped along ......
Box! Box! Box! tells the story of the 2022 Formula One championship. It captures the drama on and beyond the Grand Prix circuit, from high-speed accidents to the glamour of Monaco. After the fall -out of Abu Dhabi in 2021, would F1 ever be the same? Max Verstappen would be tested by a new challenge from the scarlet Ferraris. With new rivals, ......
The first book to tell the early history of cars in Los Angeles.
Los Angeless car culture has shaped the nations preferences in transportation, architecture, leisure, and even dining. The story of the automobile and that of Los Angeles have been entwined for more than a century. Driving Force: How Los Angeles Put ......
From James Gray, author of the bestselling Max Verstappen, comes the very first biography of Lewis Hamiltons designated successor George Russell, published to mark the British Grand Prix.
From dominating the karting tracks of East Anglia to the top of the podium in Formula 3 and Formula 2, George Russell ......
There was a time when every New Zealander either owned a Ford Cortina or had a parent, sister, brother, grandparent or friend who did. While we cant claim these hugely popular cars as our own, the Cortinas place in New Zealand motoring history makes it something of a Kiwi cultural icon. This book celebrates the Cortina in many guises, from ......
Authentic Collectables are very proud to announce an exciting, limited edition hard cover book project being produced with Dick Johnson and acclaimed author John Smailes titled Dick Johnson Racing: The First To 1000 - Celebrating 1000 Championship Races 1981-2022.
Dick Johnson Racing is without doubt one of the most iconic teams in ......
Death arrived early at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Two years before the track hosted its first 500-mile event, five drivers and spectators were killed during inaugural races on the Speedway. Death has lingered around the oval ever since. Over the past century, fatalities have mounted and a total of seventy-three drivers, mechanics, and ......
Hesketh Racing was a Grand Prix phenomenon. In a time of increasing commercialisation and cars that had forsaken national racing colours in favour of sponsors’ logos, the team was privately funded by Lord Hesketh – a patriotic 22-year-old who was determined to take his promising young driver, James Hunt, to World Championship glory. Their car ......
Whether you are a new or longtime F1 fan, here is your ultimate armchair companion to the popular Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive, providing deeper insight into all the shows plot points.
F1 expert Stuart Codling is your guide to all things F1. The Formula 1 Drive to Survive ......
The name Zora Arkus-Duntov has long been inextricably linked with Corvette in the minds of automotive historians and enthusiasts. But the story of Zora Arkus-Duntov runs far deeper than his twenty plus years of professional involvement as both Corvettes primary advocate within General Motors and as the fiberglass sports cars first chief ......
A jaw-dropping account of a year inside Formula 1, from Haas team principal and breakout star of the wildly successful Netflix series Drive to Survive, Guenther Steiner. This is the first ever behind the scenes record of a full Formula 1 season from the perspective of an acting team principal. People talk about football managers being under ......
Danger Sound Klaxon! reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer technologies of the twentieth century. Although its metallic shriek at first shocked pedestrians, savvy advertising strategies convinced consumers across the United States and western Europe to adopt the shrill Klaxon ......
Formula One 2023, the worlds bestselling Grand Prix handbook, is the essential resource for the season ahead.
Formula 1 fans will be kept fully up to speed with detailed examinations of all the teams racing in 2023 (from Ferrari and Red Bull to Mercedes and Aston Martin), every driver in the competition ......
The Australian Grand Prix is the crown jewel of local motorsport, its also the gold standard by which Formula One GPs are judged. Each year since 1985 the Formula One circus has pitched its tent in Australia for an annual round of the World Championship.
Formula One was an immediate hit in Adelaide, spawning a golden era of 11 ......
Contrary to popular opinion, the automotive industry is not a mans world! Since the early days of General Motors, there have been women-known and unknown-who have had vital roles in design, engineering, manufacturing, and administration. In this follow-up to Damsels in Design, her book on women automotive designers from 1939-1959, Constance ......
This book contains many, many stories surrounding the subject of classic car ownership. With vehicles from around the world and from many marques, youll find stories that will feed your interest generally, plus find that something about a car that you love.
The stories are great and include detailed photographs that are sure to delight ......
She’s a Beauty! is back in print – but with a difference. Now in two volumes, this lavishly illustrated first volume documents the Holden story from 1934 to 1948. Volume Two will continue the story from 1949 to 1953, and in subsequent decades. Volume One, rich with new stories, photographs and facts, includes not only material from the 2006 ......
Discover the story behind the company and cars created by the visionary Carroll Shelby, who put Ford and, by extension, the United States on the international motorsports map.
Formed in 1962 with the creation of the Ford-powered AC Cobra, Shelby American then worked with Ford Motor Company to stun the ......
Gran Turismo races have played a key role in the history of the Monza Autodrome. In the 1970s, the Coppa Intereuropa was one of the most popular events at the circuit. Interest in GT racing then waned over the years and it was only in 1992 that an Italian GT Championship was created, marking the rebirth of the category. From that moment growth ......
As F1 enjoys one of its fiercest and most hotly contested rivalries in decades, this book delves into some of the blistering contests and feuds which have lit up the sport over the years.
The rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen is one of the fiercest we have seen in Formula One in ......
A candid and comprehensive overview of the work of a modern design master.
One of Italys most prolific designers in any field, Paolo Martin is a name perhaps best known to automotive aficionados. The visionary behind some of the most important cars of the 1960s and 70s--such as the Fiat 130 Coupe, the Lancia Beta ......
AUTOCOURSE 2022-23 72nd YEAR OF PUBLICATION In a dramatic season the Formula 1 World Championship was concluded in Abu Dhabi in a contentious late race finish which saw Max Verstappen overtake the helpless Lewis Hamilton to take his first world title. Mercedes and Hamilton - now the winningest driver in history - broke more records. The Briton ......
Throughout the history of the sports car, no marque has epitomized the excitement and passion of driving like Porsche. The Saratoga Automobile Museum, in collaboration with architect Steven Harris, presents 22 of the marques rarest air and water-cooled cars. This remarkable collection highlights the manufacturers past seven decades of ......
Journallist and broadcaster Andrew Marriott writes with a light and humorous touch about a multi-faceted career covering some six decades.
He reckons he was the youngest ever person to report a Formula 1 race for a national publication and now the oldest person to regularly report from the pit lanes of Le Mans, Daytona and ......
Jacky Ickx is one of the true greats of motor racing. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, he was both highly successful and hugely versatile, racing at the highest level in a wide variety of categories - including Formula 1, sports cars, touring cars and rally raids - and winning throughout. Among many accolades, he won the Le Mans 24 Hours ......
The Monaco Grand Prix is considered one of the most demanding races in Formula 1. Constant gear changes and the slowest corner in the world championship have always demanded everything from the racing drivers.
Edward Quinn captured the most famous car race in the world from 1950 to 1965 in numerous photos. In his recordings, the ......
Produced with the full support and involvement of Jim and his family, ‘Gentleman Jim: The Official Racing History of Jim Richards’, tells the story of Richards’ amazing career, beginning in his native New Zealand and following his racing journey that took him to Australia in the mid 1970s and onto a career the likes of which have not been seen ......
The iconic voice of our sport and a great man. * Lewis Hamilton *
Maybe old soldiers never die? His legacy and his memory is so strong, and what he gave to so many Formula 1 fans and number of people he affected, he became bigger than the sport, so we have got a lot to be thankful to Murray for. * Damon Hill *
Genius broadcaster ......
Brian Cunninghams first book, Under the Bonnet, was a colourful and humorous collection of memories of his time as a car mechanic in the 1970s and 80s. When he wrote it, he was sure he had put everything of interest down, but the many letters he received from appreciative readers reminded him of plenty more escapades. When the Wheels Come Off ......
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