Legendary Cars

Author : Larry Edsal
Publisher : White Star Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788854407077
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary Cars written by Larry Edsal and published by White Star Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400 dazzling color photographs and an entertaining narrative tell the tale of our love affair with cars. Famous car photographers capture the elegance and excitement of each vehicle, while the stories behind the cars let us relive the adventures of designing and driving these marvels. Together they make an exciting history of the technological trends and designs that led to today's indispensable, stylish, and efficient automobile. The story concentrates on the most important car models produced in terms of social, aesthetic, and technological advances. From dream cars to road cars, this book captures the most stirring blends of technology, art, and beauty. Filled with a sense of adventure, it takes us on a fun spin through popular culture and into the future of automobiles.

Author : Basem Wasef
Publisher : MotorBooks International
ISBN 13 : 1616730455
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary Race Cars written by Basem Wasef and published by MotorBooks International. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated profiles of the greatest motorsports pairings of man and machine, from the winner of the first Indy 500 race to the Audi R10 the dominated Le Mans for nearly a decade.

Author : Peter Ruch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788854407831
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary German Cars written by Peter Ruch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German cars are synonymous with quality and prestige. A strong claim can be made that automobile transportation was primarily invented in Germany, which today is still home to some of the most important names in the international auto industry. This book retraces the story of some of the most significant German automakers and their models, covering over a hundred years of history, and presenting legendary creations that have left their mark on the auto's evolution and in the hearts of many enthusiasts. German manufacturers have always played an essential role in the automobile sector, at first with names such as Horch, Auto-Union and Maybach, and later with brands like Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz and Porsche, which today are considered among the world's most prestigious for quality, style and performance. This book presents the most important models in German car manufacturing history, from the Benz-Patent-Motorwagen 1 of 1886 through the race cars of the pre-war period, the cars of the economic boom, and the ever-famous Porsche 911 and the brand new bestsellers from Stuttgart, Munich and Ingolstadt.

Author : Basem Wasef
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760335486
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary Race Cars written by Basem Wasef and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated profiles of the greatest motorsports pairings of man and machine, from the winner of the first Indy 500 race to the Audi R10 the dominated Le Mans for nearly a decade.

Author : J. A. Martin, Michael J. Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610590495
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside IMSA's Legendary GTP Race Cars written by J. A. Martin, Michael J. Fuller and published by . This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional automobile racing has always been dominated by sanctioning bodies whose main goal was to ensure competition. That has meant seeing that cars are well matched--in body shape or chassis/engine combinations or engine size. But what about an all-out competition, in which one team's idea of the fastest race car could be pitted against another’s, regardless of mechanical “parity”? This was what the International Motor Sports Association’s (IMSA) Grand Touring Prototypes (GTP) race series was about. The Series ran from 1981 to 1993, and it was one of the most exhilarating racing experiences of all time. This book is the first to profile the amazing machines that resulted from the GTP’s flat-out competition among different--and passionate--ideas about what might be the fastest way around a track: the V-12 with its better ground-effect tunnels but higher center of gravity (CG); the flat six with its low CG but severely-restricted ground-effect tunnels; and others that employed elaborate wings and air dams. Here are the people behind this engineering free-for-all, the culmination of almost a century of automobile racing experience. And here are eighteen of the most competitive vehicles they designed. Using photography, diagrams, drawings and first-person accounts from the men who built them, Inside IMSA's Legendary GTP Race Cars offers a detailed look at the technology that drove some of the world’s most exciting race cars, the likes of which may never be seen again.

Author : Peter Winnewisser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legendary Model A Ford written by Peter Winnewisser and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love cars, you will love this incredibly exciting social history of Ford's Model A. Acclaimed historian, Peter Winnewisser gives you a complete treatment of what this well-built car meant to the Ford Motor Company, the workers who built them, the dealers who sold them, the people who bought them and the neighbourhoods the Ford factories called home. This book offers an entertaining look at how the Model A helped to carry a nation through the Great Depression as well as serving as an ambassador to America's automobile past. It is full of anecdotes from owners, dealers and Ford executives complete with a comprehensive bibliography based on authentic period material from the Ford Motor Company. Plus more than 300 photographs, many from the Ford Motor Company's archives, allow you to trace and develop the Model A's rise to prominence.

Author : Larry Edsall
Publisher : White Star
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary Cars written by Larry Edsall and published by White Star. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400 photographs capture the excitement and elegance of automotive history and include many famous American models. The illustrations and words combine to re-create the adventures of designing and driving the legendary cars that evolved into today's indispensable, stylish, and efficient automobile. The book begins by describing how automobiles evolved from little more than "cookie tins" propelled by sputtering internal combustion engines to smoother-riding, rounded forms. It then concentrates on the most important models produced in terms of social, aesthetic, and technological advances, covering developments in aerodynamics, speed, and horsepower, setbacks like the gasoline crisis of the 1970s, and the emergence of the modern car company. The book concludes with a peek into the future to see what types of vehicles we'll soon be driving. From dream cars to road cars, this book brings together pictures and descriptions of the most stirring blends of technology, art, beauty, and adventure.

Author : John Simister
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760319413
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary Car Engines written by John Simister and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Legendary Car Engines, John Simister expertly dissects twenty of the greatest powerplants. With photos by Automobile Magazine contributor Tim Andrew and illustrations by the late, great Bob Freeman, it looks as good as it reads. - "Speed Reading" Automobile Magazine, October 2004This book examines the 20 best road-car engines ever: the most tuneful, the most beautiful, the most significant, the most highly-prized. A car's engine is its heart and its soul. It gives a car its voice and its muscle. Some engines do this so well they seem like living things. But which are they? The words reveal who designed them, and the how, when, and why, while Tim Andrews' fabulous photography captures the familiar face and the hidden depths. Discover the engine's design features, and why they matter. Find out which is the world's most prolific engine, which began as a fire-pump, and which has components that are reversible. Discover things you never knew about engine technology. John Simister gets to the heart of these celebrated power plants and describes them as he might describe old friends. Only the master of his subject could handle so complex a subject with so light a touch.

Author : Randy Leffingwell Darwin Holmstrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1610583051
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muscle written by Randy Leffingwell Darwin Holmstrom and published by . This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Glastonbury
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785834796
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legendary Muscle Car written by Jim Glastonbury and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look into this fascinating book to discover the intoxicating world of muscle cars. Includes information on models, facts, and other interesting information on America's pride and joy.