Snapdragon: The World War II Ex
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M26 Dragon Wagon Walk Around
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Alfa Romeo View From the Mouth of the Dragon
“Alfa Romeo View from the Mouth of the Dragon lays before the reader the fascinating story of Alfa Romeo from 1910 to 1940. Competitors, management, racing achievements and the influence its innovative engineering had on the automobile industry are all explored. Technical illustrations of all Alfa Romeo engines and 30 of the cars which carried them are woven through the text.
Each copy of Alfa Romeo: View from the Mouth of the Dragon is custom made.
On the title page is printed the name of the person for whom the book is ordered. You’ll notice the wording here. It implies that the book may be ordered as a gift. If it is, the name of the person who ordered a copy for a lucky friend or spouse is also listed below the new owners name. It reads: Produced for (their name) & Produced at the request of (Your name).
Each book is dated, numbered & signed by the author & illustrator.
This richly detailed story is interwoven with 34 complex engineering illustrations & 30 illustrations of the Alfa’s they went in. All the illustrations were done specifically for this edition in the pen & ink watercolor publishing style of the Thirties and Forties. It also contains 56 color photographs, and a couple dozen film frames of the races between the wars.
For those of you unfamiliar with how we produce these books, allow me to explain. We operate in the same manner as the subscription publishers of the 19th Century; when an order is placed we alter each galley specific to the customer, then to maintain complete consistency of ink tones throughout, that galley is produced individually in a singular press-run, then hand bound.
Each 369 Alfa page book is printed on acid free archival paper and hand bound in the finest burgundy leather. So you never lose your place while reading, each copy has a missal ribbon bound into the finger boards. It takes six weeks to produce and deliver.
“A note about the illustrations:
Some of the earliest automotive books received when I was young came from that great period of illustrated publications. These publications spoke of automotive design and engineering through the visual language of the pen and ink watercolor. These publications and their illustrations inspired my automotive enthusiasm and motivated me as a young artist. In the interest of taking the reader on a journey through the time period discussed, to fully appreciate the innovation of 1914 say, I have revisited this printing and graphic method dating from the turn of the 20th Century through nineteen forty.
For the engines I had a special interest in bringing alive the engineering; utilizing the printed page to bring forth the evolving performance of these engines in a method that inhabited the time, while animating them in third dimension representation. So here once again I revisit the period printing and graphic visual language of the pen and ink watercolor to bring forth an understanding of what Giuseppe Merosi, Vittorio Jano and Gioachino Colombo imagined and made metal.”
For those with an interest in Alfa Romeo, this book is a gift. For the unaware, it is a revelation.
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50 Years of the U-2: The Complete Illustrated History of the Dragon Lady
When the U-2 first took off in 1955, no one involved in its top-secret project dreamt that this unique reconnaissance aircraft would still be flying today. The long story of the Dragon Lady is amazing, and complex; this book tells it all, in unprecedented detail.
Area 51 – Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America’s Secret Aviation Base
When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It’s easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States’ famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking advancements in American military aviation technology. In Secret Jets, author and military historian Bill Yenne offers the first fully illustrated chronology of Area 51’s most famous aircraft projects, including Lockheed’s U-2 “Dragon Lady” and SR-71 “Blackbird” reconnaissance planes, drones ranging from the early Lockheed D-21 to the modern-day General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and the famous F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter produced by the Have Blue program during the 1970s. Each project is given its own fascinating chapter illuminating the aircraft’s development at this famed location. But beyond the aircraft themselves, Secret Jets also covers a handful of the many classified experimental programs carried out at Area 51 over the years, such as Have Doughnut, Have Ferry, and Have Drill – secret undertakings that successfully reverse-engineered such enemy aircraft as the Russian MiG during the Cold War. Presented in beautiful hardcover format and illustrated with historic color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and maps, this book reveals Area 51 for what it truly is: a clandestine area for the United States’ most cutting-edge technological innovators in military aviation.
Secret Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed At Area 51
When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It’s easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States’ famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking advancements in American military aviation technology. In Secret Jets, author and military historian Bill Yenne offers the first fully illustrated chronology of Area 51’s most famous aircraft projects, including Lockheed’s U-2 “Dragon Lady” and SR-71 “Blackbird” reconnaissance planes, drones ranging from the early Lockheed D-21 to the modern-day General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and the famous F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter produced by the Have Blue program during the 1970s. Each project is given its own fascinating chapter illuminating the aircraft’s development at this famed location. But beyond the aircraft themselves, Secret Jets also covers a handful of the many classified experimental programs carried out at Area 51 over the years, such as Have Doughnut, Have Ferry, and Have Drill – secret undertakings that successfully reverse-engineered such enemy aircraft as the Russian MiG during the Cold War. Presented in beautiful hardcover format and illustrated with historic color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and maps, this book reveals Area 51 for what it truly is: a clandestine area for the United States’ most cutting-edge technological innovators in military aviation.
The Life Harley-Davidson
If you’ve felt the unabashed freedom that comes with a motorcycle, then you know the Harley lifestyle. The Life Harley-Davidson takes a deep look at all aspect of the life that comes with these bikes.
From the moment we first saw riders experiencing the joy and the freedom that can only be found riding a powerful motorcycle down an open road, many of us have been hooked on the life Harley-Davidson. The Life: Harley-Davidson celebrates that freedom.
The Life Harley-Davidson covers all aspects of the Harley lifestyle, profiling celebrity Harley fans like Elvis Presley, Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Fonda, and Arnold Schwartzenegger. All the iconic machines are here, too, like the Sporster, Electra Glide, and Fat Boy. The book also explores all the major types of custom Harleys, like Bobbers, Choppers, and Cafe racers.
This is about more than just motorcycles, though. It’s about community, gear, and tattoos. It’s about B movies, like The Wild One, The Wild Angels, and Wild Hogs. And, of course, television’s Sons of Anarchy, a program that ignited interest in the life Harley-Davidson among a younger generation of rebels. Chapters cover the one percenter outlaw club scene, focusing on international clubs like the Hells Angels, Outlaws, Pagans, and Dragons.
Shady Lady: 1,500 Hours Flying the U-2 Spy Plane
At the very edge of the atmosphere, invisible against the deep indigo sky, lurks a spy plane so sophisticated that it replaced the SR-71 Blackbird some 30 years ago. Its flat black shark-like skin deflects and absorbs all but the most advanced radars, leaving it to roam undetected while silently gathering detailed intelligence. Considered a ‘National Asset’ the U-2 Dragon Lady, in its various forms, has been in continuous military service for over six decades. Indeed she is deemed so important that she has enjoyed three separate production runs at the super-secret Lockheed ‘Skunk Works’, each time emerging with new and highly classified intelligence gathering capabilities.
Rick Bishop, a former U-2 pilot, takes the reader deep into the Black World of ‘air-breathing’ (non-satellite) reconnaissance, with a revealing and detailed account of the trials and challenges of flying a machine widely acknowledged as ‘the most dangerous aircraft in the world’, as well as revealing the personalities and adventures of some of the elite cadre of hand-selected pilots who have the right stuff to tame the Dragon Lady. From the gruelling two-week interview process, through early training flights to many exploits flying top-secret missions around the world, and his eventual rise to Commander, the author sheds new light on a world that is largely unknown outside the tight fraternity of U-2 pilots and support personnel.
Drag Race History 1960’s /1970’s DVD
Eliminators 1968 Nationals
This film opens with Wally Parks at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the NHRA nationals of 1968. You will see legends like Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme and Tommy Ivo, just to name a few. 2 engine rails! do you remember Shirley Shahan (The Dragon Lady!). She runs a 10.96 ET. Also the Sox & Martin race team, Ronny Sox driving Dick Smothers in the Smothers Brothers car!
MAN WITH A WRENCH
Drag racing in the late 60’s, this film is a time capsule showcasing famous cars of the era Sox and Martin , Don Prudhomme and many others.
CIRCLE OF RACING
This film goes full circle starting with Ontario Motor Speedway, the California 500 and going to sprint cars and then drag racing this segment shows many unique and famous cars of the era. A run down the 1/4 mile inside the Sox and Martin car. Trans Am at Riverside and stock cars at Riverside, early NASCAR.
TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Produced by Hurst Performance and the NHRA in the mid 60’s, this film takes place on labor day and shows a time when the average guy could go out and compete with the big boys!
Speed Merchants of Venice
Cobra’s 50th anniversary is celebrated in Speed Merchants of Venice, a new book from Racing Division Los Angeles. Printed and bound in California, where the Cobra was born, the book was produced to accompany a new exhibit at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum and commemorate Carroll Shelby’s passing.
“We were extremely honored to be a part of this important exhibit,” said Michael Holmes, managing director of Racing Division. “Using selected images from the Shelby Foundation archives, many previously unpublished, we briefly tell the Cobra story from the first car assembled in Dean Moon’s hot-rod shop to the GT40s of Le Mans fame. Also included are chapters on the Dragonsnakes, Daytona Coupe, King Cobra and, of course, the 427.”
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Drag Race History 1960’s/1970’s Blu Ray DVD
Eliminators 1968 Nationals
This film opens with Wally Parks at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the NHRA nationals of 1968. You will see legends like Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme and Tommy Ivo, just to name a few. 2 engine rails! do you remember Shirley Shahan (The Dragon Lady!). She runs a 10.96 ET. Also the Sox & Martin race team, Ronny Sox driving Dick Smothers in the Smothers Brothers car!
MAN WITH A WRENCH
Drag racing in the late 60’s, this film is a time capsule showcasing famous cars of the era Sox and Martin , Don Prudhomme and many others.
CIRCLE OF RACING
This film goes full circle starting with Ontario Motor Speedway, the California 500 and going to sprint cars and then drag racing this segment shows many unique and famous cars of the era. A run down the 1/4 mile inside the Sox and Martin car. Trans Am at Riverside and stock cars at Riverside, early NASCAR.
TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Produced by Hurst Performance and the NHRA in the mid 60’s, this film takes place on labor day and shows a time when the average guy could go out and compete with the big boys!
Snake & Mongoose Blu Ray
Start your engines for the incredible true story of the greatest rivalry in drag racing history: Don The Snake Prudhomme (Jesse Williams of Grey’s Anatomy) versus his longtime friend and nemesis Tom The Mongoose McEwen (Richard Blake of DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION). From the fiery days of early speedways through the explosive peak of their popularity, these are the personal triumphs and tragedies behind the legendary races and Hot Wheels partnership that created a global phenomenon. Ashley Hinshaw (CHRONICLE), Kim Shaw (SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE), Fred Dryer (Hunter), Ian Ziering (SHARKNADO), Tim Blake Nelson (O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?) and Noah Wyle (ER) co-star in this nitro-burning drama of the two men who battled business and each other to change motorsports forever.
