Cars By Make A to C - Books

By: Nick Walker, new book, minor shelf-wear, small tear on dust jacket All car enthusiasts know, or think they know, what a vintage Bentley should look like. It should have a Vanden Plas four-seater tourer body, and should be painted green. But Bentleys...

By: Graham Robson ., 1st edition Bentley is one of those charismatic marques that, throughout its long and turbulent history, has produced some of the most famous cars of the time. Founded in 1919 on high hopes but scant capital, the marque delivered a...

By: Richard Feast . Bentley has a fabulous history of racing and of prestigous road cars. But the new owner of the company is the Volkswagen Group, which has a history-as the name translates-of building basic transport for the people. Bentley has already...

By: Brooklands Books . The designers at Crewe started work on the car which would become the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit as early as 1972, but it would be 1980 before the car and its siblings entered production. Although the cars looked broader and...

By: Brooklands Books . This book is a compilation of road and comparison tests, new model reports, racing, specifications, history and used car classic reports. Includes: 100, 100S, 100M, 100 Six, Mille Miglia, 3000, Mk II, Mk III, Sprite, Sebring,...

By: Geoffrey Healey . There have been many books about the world-famous Healey and Austin- Healey cars, but here — re-issued to meet continuing demand — is the definitive account. Drawing on the diaries, notebooks, photographs and films of...

By: John Baggott . For Donald Healey, head of a small firm manufacturing sports cars, and for the history of British motor sport, the 1952 Earls Court Motor Show was a fateful occasion. It was there that Healey showed his new car, the Healey 100, which...

By: Dave Pollard . The Audi quattro is possibly the ultimate practical supercar, offering breath-taking performance from its 200+ bhp turbocharged engine, together with the grip and security of four-wheel drive. Its bravura performances and the way it...

By: Graham Robson . Long awaited re-print, this book features, records, specifications and articles etc.   Other Details Publisher Code: 1903088178 ISBN 10: 1903088178 ISBN 13:   Published: 2004 Dimensions: 180x245mm Pages: 68 ...

By: Brooklands Books . With rival German manufacturers coming out with sports cars in the mid to late 1990s it was obvious that Audi would have to come up with one of its own. Where the others introduced fairly conventional and predictable sports cars,...

By: James Ruppert . IN AUTUMN 1995 Audi took the motoring world by storm. The concept car that they displayed on their stand at the Frankfurt Motor Show was an instant star and the sexy two-seater coupe had such a striking, contemporary, unfussy design...

By: Laurence Meredith . The quattro wasn't the first car to boast permanent four-wheel drive, turbocharger or 5-cylinder engine, but it did combine all of these innovations for the first time in a usable road car, that was equally at home at high speed...