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Creative Industries of Detroit: The Untold Story of Detroit’s Secret Concept Car Builder
$39.93As America entered the postwar 1950s a resurgence by the auto manufacturers enabled them to create the most eccentric and extravagant automobiles of all time. Fierce competition between designers from General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and independents such as Packard all turned to one car builder nestled firmly in America's bustling automotive mecca to help design…
Cuba’s Car Culture: Celebrating the Island’s Automotive Love Affair
$17.00Cuba's Car Culture drives through Cuba's love of American cars of the '40s and '50s, and the ingenuity that keeps them running despite the U.S. embargo.2017 Silver Medal Winner of the International Automotive Media Competition! The story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed healthy…
Damsels in Design: Women Pioneers in the Automotive Industry, 1939-1959
$24.60In the mid-1950s, an innovative group of women at General Motors (dubbed the Damsels of Design by marketers) and their counterparts at Ford, Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, and Tucker changed automotive history forever. Read the untold story of the women who excelled in the Mad Men era of automobile and industrial design. Recruited by top CEOs…
David Vizard’s How to Build Max-Performance Chevy Small-Blocks on a Budget (Performance How-To...
$22.94There's a common thread that connects high-performance enthusiasts; they want horsepower at the most affordable price. Hot rodders have always searched for ways to save money and improve performance, which includes fabricating their own parts, buying prime used parts, searching classifieds, and combing swap meets looking for deals. These high-performance enthusiasts take pride in beating…
Day One: An Automotive Journalist’s Muscle-Car Memoir
$23.28In Day One, automotive journalist Marty Schorr recalls life on the front line in the classic muscle car era, thrashing brand-new cars that would become collector vehicles. Most muscle-car books celebrate beautifully-restored vehicles surrounded by hard facts; Day One tells the real story from the point-of-view of one of the period’s most respected automotive journalists, Marty Schorr.…
Detroit Muscle: Factory Lightweights and Purpose-Built Muscle Cars
$31.00The muscle car era, and the era that immediately preceded it, are a unique window in time; it is one that we will not likely see again. Post-war USA was a place where people wanted to move on from the horrors of conflict, to embrace an era of peace, and to pursue, well, all sorts…
Deuce: The Original Hot Rod: 32×32
$23.912017 Silver Medal Winner of the International Automotive Media Competition! Ford's classic '32, equipped with a behemoth engine and modified for speed is everything a hot rod should be.They certainly don't make 'em like this anymore. We're talking about the car that launched the hot rod subculture: Ford's 1932 Deuce. With its stylish lines, timeless grille, and…
Discovery: Honk on the Road! (10-Button Sound Books)
$9.98Press the buttons and beep, honk, vroom with 10 different vehicles!This big, bright board book is packed full of noisy fun with things that go! Busy toddlers won't be able to resist pressing the buttons and copying the familiar vehicle sounds that accompany the colorful photographs on every page. The sturdy picture tabs make it…
Dodge 100 Years
$36.74The year was 1900 when Horace and John Dodge founded the Dodge Brothers Company, in a machine shop in Detroit, Michigan. The high-quality components they produced advanced the dawn of the American automotive industry, appearing in the famous Curved Dash Olds and Henry Ford's Model A. Soon, the brothers became the exclusive supplier to Ford,…
Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Dragsters, Vintage Cars, Dune Bu...
$9.99Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles shows artists of all levels how to draw with ease by following simple step-by-step examples. Celebrated author Lee J. Ames shows you how to draw your favorite hot rods, sports cars, and clunkers, including Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, dump trucks, tandem bikes, and Harley-Davidsons, with drawings of classic models from 1870…
Draw Cars
$8.99The 3rd edition of Draw Cars features many new cars, including the Lamborghini Hurucán, BMW i8, Porsche 918 Spyder, Ferrari 458 Italia, Corvette Z06, Smart ForTwo, 2016 VW Beetle, Land Rover Defender, and Ford F-150 pickup.Whether your goal is to draw the latest supercars, transform your Uncle Bill's ratty ol' pickup into a Defender of…
Dream Garages
$2.62For car and motorcycle enthusiasts there is scarcely a more sacred space than the garage. This is where it all happens: the restoring of relics and resurrecting of wrecks, the polishing of tall tales and tail fins and friendships formed over a shared passion for automotive speed and style. Dream Garages takes the reader into…
Drive: The Definitive History of Driving
$10.40Charting the 130-years from the arrival of horseless carriages to the advent of driverless vehicles, celebrate the automobile and the romance of the open road.Beginning with the development of the first vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine, Drive explores the early glamour of driving, motor sport, and car design, and looks at how the…
Dyno Don: The Cars and Career of Dyno Don Nicholson
$26.42Many fans of drag racing consider the most interesting era to be from the 1950s through the 1970s, the years when the sport really took off. During that period, so much changed from a speed and technology standpoint that people often refer to this time as the golden age of drag racing.Drivers often became associated…
Ed Roth’s Mysterion: The Genesis, Demise and Recreation of an Iconic Custom Car
$35.00Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (1932-2001) was a phenomenon. His body of work is still discussed in hot rodding, fine arts and pop culture circles and his cult following remains as devoted as it was during his career. His 1963 Mysterion show car--featuring two big-block Ford V8s--was his masterpiece and the story of its rise and…
Exotic Cars (First Gear)
$13.24These are the cars so fast and powerful, so superior in design and performance, that they could only be called supercars. Since legendary British motor journalist L. J. K. Setright christened the first, the Lamborghini Miura, in a review, others have followed from the finest automakers in the world: Bugatti, Porsche, McLaren, Maserati, Ferrari, Koenigsegg. …
F1 Mavericks: The Men and Machines that Revolutionized Formula 1 Racing
$37.11F1 Mavericks is the story of the grandest, most influential, and most fondly remembered era in Formula 1 racing as seen through the lens of master motorsports photographer, Pete Biro. saw the greatest technological changes in the history of Formula 1 racing: the transition from front engines to rear engines, narrow-treaded tires, massive racing slicks,…
Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
$16.75The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were made,…
FOR THE RECORD: 28:50 A journey toward self-discovery and the Cannonball Run Record
$12.99Speed, supercars, horsepower, anti-police countermeasures, and an epic pursuit of a childhood dream collide on a literal and figurative drive that leads a man to spend every available dollar chasing a record. Ed Bolian’s memoir recounts his path from a conversation in high school with Cannonball Run founder, Brock Yates, to setting the fastest time…
Ford & Mercury Flathead V-8 Identification & Rebuilder’s Guide
$21.95Joe Abbin, the author of Blown Flathead and 335 HP Flathead Ford V-8 Performance Handbook, produced this comprehensive new book on flathead Ford engine identification and rebuilding. Stock or modified, this book will be an essential reference for both engine owners and professional engine builders to help them determine what they have, what they need,…
Ford Flathead Engines: How to Rebuild & Modify
$22.92Although not the first V-8 engine ever produced, Henry Ford's side-valve V-8, launched in 1932, certainly qualified as the first mass-produced V-8 sold to the public. Because of Henry Ford's stubbornness, the first versions were less than ideal. The technology was in its infancy and cost-cutting measures limited the output and reliability of the early…
