Cars - General Books

By: Tim Steil . Running straight up the gut of a nation, Highway 61 begins on  the edge of New Orleans' French Quarter, rolls past Delta cotton fields, and makes a mad dash to Lake Superior's rocky North Shore, slicing through eight states...

By: Andrew Montgomery . From the grinding rims of the covered wagon, via the gleaming tracks of the railroad to the glittering chrome of Detroit's finest, it is mobility that has created the unique character and culture of the United States. American...

By: Editors of Hot Rod Magazine . Over the past 50 years Hot Rod magazine has been at the forefront of the performance movement by featuring photographs and articles of dragsters, roadsters, slingshots, buggies, kemps, coupes, and their drivers. Now you...

By: Pat Ganahl . In 1932, Ed Roth was born to German immigrant parents in Beverly Hills, California. He grew up in Bell, just south of Los Angeles, and according to his brother, Gordon, always had an aptitude for things both mechanical and artistic. In...

By: David Grant . Of all of the pioneering custom-car builders to come to prominence in the 1950s— Harry Westergard, George Barris, and Dean Jeffries, among others—one of the most prolific was a young man from Modesto, California, named Gene...

By: Peter Vincent . You’ve seen the hot rods and custom rides, even looked into the hot rodding lifestyle, but what about where it all starts—in the garages humble or grand where countless hours of machining and wrenching, welding and...

By: Nick Freeth . America's Pacific coastline stretches for more than 2,000 richly varied miles - from Cape Flattery in the northwest to the border with Mexico. Nearly all of it is easily accessible by car, and Pacific Coast Highway is designed both...

By: Doug Mitchel . If you grew up reading the classic "green pages" in HOT ROD magazine – (or even if you didn't) -- you're going to love this lavish look inside some of the coolest hot rods around. In the old days the "green pages" information was...

By: Mark Christensen . Until 1946, hot rodding was generally considered a preoccupation of gearheads and juvenile delinquents. That all changed when car-crazy vets returned from the war with sophisticated mechanical training, courtesy of Uncle Sam. This...

By: George Barris, David Fetherston . George Barris is widely known as the "King of Kustomizers," a title that George has earned through his many years of innovative car building. Starting as a teenager who jazzed up his first car with flashy...

By: Billy F Gibbons . This is the 2011 published Paperback Edition of the original hardbound edition.Imagine stepping out of an air-conditioned Kwik-E-Mart and into the hot summer sun, cold soda in hand, when a long-and-low baby blue '62 Impala trolls...

By: Consumer Guide . A pictorial history of the sports car in America from 1946 to the present. Sports Car Chronicle is the fast- paced, illustrated story of the sports car in America. With more than 1000 photographs, period advertising, and fascinating...