Out Of Print Books

By: David Tremayne . The concept seemed preposterous: take two engines from the humble JCB digger, beloved of young kids and construction companies the world over, and use them to challenge the 235.756mph land speed record for diesel vehicles. But the...

By: Brooklands Books . A portfolio of contemporary reports telling how the Land Speed Record was raised from 231.36 mph in 1930 to 368.85 mph in 1939. Featured are articles on Kaye Don's Silver Bullet, Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue Birds, George Eyston's...

By: Brooklands Books . A portfolio of reports telling how the first Land Speed Record of 39.24 mph was set in 1898 by Count de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud. By 1919 the record had been officially pushed up to 124.10 mph by the likes of...

By: John B. Blanden ., ISBN: 9780908031832   Description This second and greatly expanded edition of John Blanden's ground-breaking 1979 book now covers Historic racing cars in Australia built from the early days up to 1970.  Whilst some cars...

By: Arvids Linde . Can you imagine a world where people drive beautiful and unusual cars, created by designers prodigiously endowed with talent and imagination? Names like Preston Tucker, Carl Borgward and John DeLorean are hardly known today...

By: Andrew Howe . Autocross is the most accessible form of motorsports for the sports car enthusiast. With many clubs sanctioning events, it is possible to attend an event nearly every weekend in many areas. The low-risk format allows drivers to...

By: Larry Davis . In many ways, drag racing spawned the muscle car era of the ‘60s. Super Stock drag racing was huge in the early ‘60s, and the factories encouraged their teams’ success by building high-power, lightweight cars...

By: Albert Drake . Nostalgic memories of the way things were in the '50s. Cars we drove, clothes we wore, the movies, the drive-ins, service stations, car shows, car clubs, what we read, customs, drag races, street racing, rappin' pipes and more...

By: Ron Mangus, Gary D. Smith . Award-winning cars and interiors will inspire you with design possibilities for your own 1955, 1956, 1957 Chevy hot rod. You will learn the concepts behind a great interior—the design process, color and material...

By: Dennis Gorodji, Alex Gorodji . Book Description Top modifications to the Nissan GT-R. as worked out by the world's best tuners. These modifications are crucial in order to release the GT-R's enormous performance potential. The "Nissan GT-R...

By: Dennis Gorodji, Alex Gorodji . Contains rare pictures, schematics and graphs detailing the many unique qualities of the Nissan GT-R, a car that revolutionised modern sports car dynamics. Analysis of the motorsport history of the GT-R provides an...

By: Karl Ludvigsen . The front-engined racing car dominated Grand Prix racing for the first half-century of the sport, from the inaugural Grand Prix in 1906 through to the late 1950s. Karl Ludvigsen's authoritative and beautifully illustrated history...