Customer Review: The Best Aurora Slot Car Book
The definitive book for Aurora slot car collector’s. I know we’re still out there. I wish this book was available when I was first collecting Aurora slot cars. If you’re looking for a great way to see what was available then or what you still [...]
Customer Review: 60 years of muddy photos
Being a fan and participant of road racing over the past 40 years, I looked forward with anticipation to this new book. With a rich history full of color and excitment, one can only imagine the wealth of memorabilia and imagery on file in the archives of the SCCA.
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Launched in 1969, the Fairlady Z was the car that put Nissan (then Datsun) and Japan in the first division of the automotive manufacturers’ league. The Z paved the way for a new breed of cars to succeed outside of Japan; a development which would fundamentally change the world’s auto industry. This book [...]
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There was a time in the United States when railroad tunnels and bridges were only dreams in the minds of designers, when the best way to move railroad cars across bodies of water was to load them on specialized ships designed specifically for this purpose. With this utilitarian principle in mind, shipbuilders around the [...]
All classic car buffs and researchers remember the spectacular performance of such cars as the Jaguar XK 120, the ASA, the Cisitalia, the Veritas, or the Pegaso. Some 150 leading models are covered in this comprehensive reference work, which is full of fascinating details (history of the make, description of the vehicle, technical data, numbers [...]
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Customer Review: another good auto art book
Its a very good book, at the same time similar and not similar to Thom Taylors “How to Draw Cars like a Pro”. I gave this book a 5 star rating, but there is just one thing that was making me feel like giving it a “4″, the [...]
Steve McQueen drove with a broken ankle to a stunning second-place finish in 1970. Dan Gurney watched the winner’s trophy slip away when his Ford’s engine seized a heartbreaking 250 yards from the finish line in 1966. Stirling Moss was handed a bottle of Coca-Cola during the 1957 race and politely returned the empty bottle [...]
The BNSF motive power fleet could be called ‘in transition’ during 2001. More and different models were repainted into Heritage colors. Renumbering the merger-acquired fleet was accelerated. Most surge fleet vintage models rode the rails the entire year. Included is a 100% line-by-line roster with builder data and dates, renumber and repaint dates, retirement, technical [...]
