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Specialty Car Books
Mount Victory’s awesome Specialty Car Books are for gearheads who want to explore super cars, dream cars and car cultures around the globe. Did you know Cuba has a hot rodding culture? Or that Austin Healey had a successful history in rally racing? Find a bounty of knowledge about the automotive world, and learn how technology is developing the automobile faster than the world’s most expensive supercars. Kick back and crack open something new with your old favorite drink!
1001 Dream Cars You Must Drive Before You Die
$36.95A lavishly illustrated collection of the 1,001 most groundbreaking and beautiful cars, from the earliest pioneering horseless carriages to the latest custom models for connoisseurs. This latest volume in the hugely popular 1001 series showcases the world’s best designed and most important cars. With stunning full-color photography representing the highest achievements of car design and…
Cadillac: 110 Years
$24.16In celebration of 110 years of one of the most iconic brands in the world, Assouline presents the first luxury book on America s foremost luxury car. Cadillac takes readers on a visual journey through all the decades of its history. Cadillac has become a symbol of Americana, the ultimate achievement of the American Dream.…
Cadillac: The Tailfin Years
$29.87The tail fin era is one of the most recognized in automotive styling, and the influence spread worldwide. As everyone knows, designer Harley Earl took his inspiration from World War II fighter aircraft and the fins grew bolder and larger as competing manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon to produce the most striking vehicle, until they…
Cars of the Fabulous 50’s: A Decade of High Style and Good Times (Automotive)
$50.00Get ready for a beauty pageant of 1950s glamour autos: finny luxury cars, two-seated sports cars, family-friendly station wagons, and spunky compacts. All the car makes and models we know today are included, plus plenty of long-lost favorites like DeSoto, Edsel, Hudson, Nash, Packard, Studebaker, and others. ¥ More than 1,600 photos and illustrations, most…
Creative Industries of Detroit: The Untold Story of Detroit’s Secret Concept Car Builder
$33.61As 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
$35.00Cuba'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
$29.15In 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…
Drive: The Definitive History of Driving
$25.71Charting 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…
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)
$20.49These 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. …
Ford Tough: 100 Years of Ford Trucks
$43.04Get Fords complete story in Ford Tough: 100 Years of Ford Trucks and see why they’ve dominated the truck market, selling 1.5 million trucks every year in the US alone. In July 1917 Ford Motor Company introduced a one-ton chassis for commercial trucks, marking what many historians feel was its official entry into the dedicated truck…
My Dad Had That Car: A Nostalgic Look at the American Automobile, 1920-1990
$34.72They just don't make them like this anymore! Massive pictorial history recalls more than 10,000 American automobiles! Models from more than 250 manufacturers, ranging from collector, luxury, sports, and everyday cars covering a 70-year period.
Never Stop Driving: A Better Life Behind the Wheel
$21.93With glorious photography and sharp writing, Never Stop Driving presents the case for the mental and social benefits of driving and engaging with automobiles. It also shows you—from dreaming about a car to living with it—how to jump in and get the most from your machine. There’s never been a better time to go for…
Packard: An Illustrated History 1899-1958
$31.77In the long and exciting history of the American automobile business one name stands out above others: Packard! For many years the cars produced by the Packard Motor Car Company were considered the best; a line of sedans, coupes, convertibles and limousines in a wide variety of factory body styles and a seemingly endless array…
Porsche 356: 356, 356A, 356B, 356C including Speedster, Roadster, Convertible D and Carrera 1950 to 1965 (Essential Buyer’s Guide)
$17.94This is the complete guide to finding the best available example of the classic front-engined Porsche 356. Insight from real ownership experience is coupled with unparalleled technical knowledge, resulting in the first dedicated guidebook for potential buyers of the Porsche 356. A comprehensive guide, including an inspection checklist that buyers can use when viewing a…
Porsche 912 Workshop Manual 1965-1968
$29.95Originally published by Floyd Clymer this is a faithful reproduction of the 1969 publication of that manual. By far the most comprehensive manual ever published for the 912 Porsche it includes complete technical data, service and maintenance information and comprehensive detailed instructions for the repair and overhaul of all major and minor mechanical and electrical…
The Cadillac Story: The Postwar Years (Stanford General Books)
$33.30The Cadillac story is more than the story of a car company. It is, in many ways, the story of the American automobile industry itself― which, as much as any industry, drove America’s growth in the twentieth century and defined who we are as a people: mobile and prosperous. Cadillac, again and again, played a…
