Mobility without Mayhem
5,300円 While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it. Mobility without Mayhem is a lively cultural history of America’s fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twe...
Henry Ford
4,207円 A reprint of the rare and controversial biography of Henry Ford, first published in 1923, written by Ford's close associate. Regarded by many automotive historians as the finest and most dispassionate character study of Henry Ford ever written, Henry Ford: An Interpretation has long been out of p...
Mercedes-Benz W111, W112 Coupe, Cabriolet...
1,750円 If you want to learn more about the two-door Mercedes W111 and W112 models, then this is your book! Updated in March 2018, it walks you through the cars' history, explains their chassis number and data card and offers a comprehensive buyer's guide. All this comes with superb recent non-Daimler AG...
Fifty Cars that Changed the World
2,122円 Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Cars That Changed the World imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 cars that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design today. From the1...
Mercedes-Benz 170V with chassis number/da...
1,750円 The 170V W136, launched in 1947, was the desperate attempt by Daimler-Benz to step out of the ruins of WWII. The car was based on a 1936 design and earned the company sufficient funds to plan cars like the 300 Adenauer or 300SL. Updated in early 2016, this 110-page book gives you all the facts ab...
The Coolest Supercars of 2013, According ...
109円 Are you ready for the ride? Brace yourself, as all twelve cylinders of this book heaves you through this year's top 10 super-fast and super-beautiful supercars. Enjoy plenty of eye candy, and read up on the corresponding easy-to-read car specifications for each car. Jump in if you dare, just don'...
Morris Minor: The Biography
1,432円 The split screen, the indicators poking up like perspex orange fingers, the notoriously rust-prone floors, the pootling exhaust note… just some of the much-loved characteristics of the Morris Minor or Morris 1000. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis back in 1948, in a sense it was Britain’s answer to ...
The VW Camper Van
1,718円 It was invented immediately after the war, in the factory a far-sighted English military man had set up to turn the German economy from making machines of warfare to more pacific products. By the seventies that dream had been amply fulfilled, as the VW Campervan became the conveyance of choice fo...
Images from the Arsenal of Democracy
3,895円 A photographic history of the American automobile industry's World War II defense production. While researching his previous study, Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II (Wayne State University Press, 2013), award-winning automotive historian Charles K. Hyde disco...
Stealing Cars
4,371円 The technology-thwarting car thief has become as advanced as the cars themselves. As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, but so did the means of making ...
An Old Coachman's Chatter with some Pract...
496円 An Old Coachman's Chatter with some Practical Remarks on Driving  Nimrod has somewhere said that a good coachman could almost be perceived by the manner in which he put his gloves on, or words to that effect; but without going so far as that, I believe the way in which he mounts his box is ...
Jowett A Century of Memories
2,804円 In 1906, brothers Benjamin and William Jowett designed and built their first car. Within four years, in 1910, they had started production of the Jowett, an ultra-economy light car in their home town of Bradford. In 2010, Jowett owners came together in Yorkshire to mark the centenary of the marque...
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