Explore the complete history of Jaguar--maker of cars that practically purr with life--through James Mann's stunning photography.In 1935, a small company in Coventry, England, built a sporting saloon called the "Jaguar""SS "and set in motion an inexorable process that would lead to Britain's most be[...]
A muscle-car calendar unlike any other, featuring the rarest vehicles on Earth."""American Muscle Cars 2016" features 16 months of brutish machines from America's fastest decade, captured in all their glory by renowned auto photographer Randy Leffingwell. Showcasing some of the rarest of the outrage[...]
Dive into 16 months of Ford muscle cars, from the golden age to right now.Total Performance. That policy, dictated by Henry Ford II - "the Deuce," as he was known within Ford Motor Company - provided the fixed star that guided the company through the wild, wonderful years of the classic muscle-car e[...]
This is" the" muscle car history to own--a richly illustrated chronicle of America's greatest high-performance cars, told from their 1960s beginning through the present day In the 1960s, three incendiary ingredients--developing V-8 engine technology, a culture consumed by the need for speed, and 75 [...]
A muscle-car calendar unlike any other, featuring the rarest vehicles on Earth."""American Muscle Cars 2017" features 16 months of brutish machines from America's fastest decade, captured in all their glory by renowned auto photographers Tom Loeser and Ron Kimball. Showcasing some of the rarest of t[...]
A smaller muscle-car calendar unlike any other, featuring the rarest vehicles on Earth."American Muscle Cars Mini 2017" is the ultimate collection of Detroit muscle in a smaller size, perfect for your office or garage. Featuring studio portraits of the hottest hardware from the 1960s and 1970s, mast[...]
Chevrolet didn't invent the overhead-valve pushrod V-8 engine, but without question Ed Cole and company perfected it. And General Motors' Bowtie division wasn't the first to put the engine design in a production car, but it was the first to put the engine design in an affordable production car and m[...]
Tom Cotter returns to troll through Detroit and discover long forgotten classics in Motor City Barn Finds. You won't believe some of the rides he finds.
Detroit has been America's Motor City for decades. It's home to Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, as well as numerous auto industry compa[...]
When John Z. Delorean and his cadre of enthusiastic rule benders took it upon themselves to bolt Pontiac's hottest engine into a mid-sized Tempest, disobeying orders from the top of General Motors food chain, they created something that should not have been and will never be again: the muscle car. T[...]
The swooping curves, the gleaming chrome, the raw speed. Cars is the calendar that feeds the passion of the car lover. Test-drive a sleek 2004 Bugatti Veyron 16.4. A 1960s Mercedes 300D. And a Ford 3-window coupe, circa 1934. Plus muscle cars, supercharged cars, perfectly preserved vintage cars, and[...]
Kids' passion for cars has always run fast and furious, and this interactive book and kit gives enthusiastic gearheads the opportunity to build the essential parts of a car easily and independently. Colorful and energetic, "How Cars Work" details the principles for ten basic car mechanisms and inclu[...]
Buckle up for an exuberant ride humming with energetic rhymes and whimsical, retro art from a masterful team.
Black car, green car,
nice car, mean car.
Near car, far car.
Whoa Bizarre car
Ready to hit the road? Gear up for a nonstop parade of shapes, sizes, sounds, and even sme[...]
Covered is the variety of British, French, American, Russian and other armored cars used by the Wehrmacht.[...]
Aurora slot cars are legendary. These tiny racing cars captured and held the imagination of American kids for over a decade and their unparalleled popularity made them coveted Christmas presents between 1960 and 1977. Aurora slot car races were staged everywhere, from home basements to the Johnny Ca[...]
This comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable reference features hundreds of tin toy cars from toy makers around the world. Included are toys from Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. The toys represent cars of the[...]
This comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable reference features hundreds of tin toy cars from toy makers around the world. Included are toys from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States. The toys repres[...]
This highly illustrated volume covers the variety of armoured cars used by Czech forces during World War I, and the Russian Civil War, as well as its post-World War II use in Italy and Slovakia. Along with details of armoured car design, manufacturers, construction, and variants, the book covers Cze[...]
Ages 7 to 14 years. Custom coach-building, chrome fenders, and rumble seats signalled the dawn of a new era in automobile history. This highly illustrated book features cars from the Classic era from 1931 to 1980, which saw the birth and death of many stunning and outrageous car trends.[...]
A muscle car is not a piece of Italian exotica, a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, cars which are just too complex and too specialized; nor is it a German Porsche, which is too efficient and too clever by half; nor yet a classic British sports car, a Morgan, TVR or Jaguar, which could never be regarded as [...]
The American public's love for speed and power has inspired generations of muscle cars. The rising popularity of street racing, stock-car races, and quarter-mile drag races in the pre-war years led to the formation of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing in 1947 and the National Hot Ro[...]