Cars - Motorsport Books

By: Lou Hart . When our young veterans began returning from World War II, they applied the knowledge they gained from Uncle Sam in the fledgling hot rod movement. As speeds increased, rodders learned the hard way just how dangerous it was to "drag it...

By: Howard V. Koby . Pro Stockers with radical big-block race engines and factory bodywork always provided plenty of fender-to-fender wheel stand action. Popular drivers like "Dandy" Dick Landy, Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, Ronnie Sox, Bob Glidden, Wally...

By: Graham Robson . Four-wheel-drive was authorised in rallying from 1979, but for a time no serious car-manufacturer even tried to harness it to their cars. Soon, though, it was Audi who produced the world’s first rally-winning four-wheel-drive...

By: Lou Hart, Wallace A. Wyss . See the cars raced by many of the legendary names in drag racing, including Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen and Jim Dunn. Action shots as well as clear detailed under the shell shots in the pits. Various makes and models of cars...

By: Rachelle Splatt, Lara O'Toole . It takes guts, skill and an unshakeable belief in yourself to nudge up to the line in a 5000 horsepower beast that will propel you over a quarter mile in less than 5 seconds at 300mph. Welcome to the world of Top...

By: Steve Reyes . The front-engine slingshot is without a doubt the most distinctive style of dragster to emerge from drag racing's early years. There was no slowing down the drag racers of the 1950s. Mickey Thompson made it known he was an innovator and...

By: Tom Madigan . Don "The Snake" Prudhomme in his Barracuda. Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen in his Duster. The "Snake vs. Mongoose" racing feud had been making headlines long before they got their Funny Cars, but it wasn't until they made a deal with Mattel...

By: Jim Shild . From the early decades of the Indy 500 to the modern superspeedways of NASCAR, from the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race to drag racing's 4.5-second quarter-mile runs, this is the story of one company's pursuit of performance and the...

By: Peter Collins . An affectionate, mainly pictorial panorama of twenty-odd years of the British Touring Car Championship, from the anarchical 1960s and early 1970s of flared wheelarches, lifting wheels and smoking tyres, through the Group 1 years when...

By: Graham Robson . This is a comprehensive study of the career of one type of rally car – the BMC Mini-Cooper/Mini-Cooper S. In the 1960s the Mini became famous as Britain’s most successful rally car. It combined superb handling, a tiny body...

By: Brooklands Books . The story of how Lincoln, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Oldsmobile, Lancia, Chevrolet, Porsche, Dodge and Mercedes-Benz won glory in the gruelling Mexican road races run between 1950 and 1954. 53 articles plus two historical reports which...

By: William Bill Boddy . Built during 1924, Montlhery was the brainchild of Alexandre Lamblin, and soon became the home of French motor racing, with several major races occurring there each year including, on a number of occasions, the French Grand Prix...