This is the complete book about the airplane that became the standard of the industry… the Beechcraft Bonanza! How it all started in 1944… the original design team and their early efforts to find the ideal airplane for the postwar market… how and why the V-tail was chosen… aerodynamics of the V-tail and early testing… Bonanza power plants, both production and experimental such as the over-under arrangement of two 4 cylinder Franklins… Walter Beech and the Bonanza… a rare photo of the first flight (with a Lycoming engine and a laminar flow wing)… the Bonanza wind tunnel testing… Bell Aircraft and the V-tail… the Beechcraft Grizzly… flight test of the radio controlled drone Bonanza… the V-tail AT-10… the Beechcraft Twin Quad, the largest V-tail aircraft ever built… Staggerwing influence… structural testing… the 35R… the Bevo Howard and the A35 he flew aerobatics in at Cleveland in 1948… the Air Force and Navy Mentor Trainers developed from the Bonanza design… the Bonanza long distance flights… the birth of the Debonair… why the “straight” tail… the Bonanza 36… little known military Bonanzas… Bonanza modifications… the American Bonanza Society and the first meeting in Wichita… complete specifications of all the Bonanza models (including the 33s and 36s)… the significant changes from model to model and even the changes that occurred during the production run of each model… experimental Bonanzas such as the O35 that never saw production, and much, much, more… literally everything from the beginning of the idea all the way up to 1972 production.
One of the world’s most versatile and engaging vehicles is celebrated in this Ludvigsen Library book. Conceived by Maurice Wilks of the Rover Motor Company as Britain’s answer to the ubiquitous Jeep, the Land-Rover made its bow in 1948. In accord with Wilk’s desires it was more versatile than the Jeep, making it the ideal farming and countryside vehicle – perhaps the first-ever sport-utility. An explosion of different body styles and wheelbase lengths soon enriched the range of this popular off-roader, as did diesel and even V-8 engines. The Series 2 version was introduced in 1958 and the Series 3 in 1971. Special forward-control and military versions only increased the range of tasks this amazing vehicle could accomplish. The original Land-Rover rolls on into the 21st Century, now styled as the Defender. Rare and original photos from the Ludvigsen Library and Marshall of Cambridge depict the evolution of this globe-girdling 4×4 over half a century, amplified by an introduction by “”Landie”” expert Paul Woods.
Raoul ‘Sonny’ Balcaen grew up in Los Angeles at a time when it became the epicentre of American motor racing, nurturing a vast talent pool of people whose influence has echoed through to today.
As a teenager, he successfully competed with his home-built Top Fuel dragster during the formative years of the sport. With Lance Reventlow, he worked on the famous Scarab sports cars and was standing in the dyno room when the team’s all-American Formula 1 engine was fired up for the first time. A period as Jim Hall’s crew chief and a close association with Carroll Shelby added to the know-how that guided him towards becoming a successful entrepreneur and led to all that followed.
- Aged 17, Balcaen built his own Top Fuel drag racer, the ‘Bantamweight Bomb’, which he developed relentlessly and drove to many successes.
- His role in the fabulous Scarab sports cars — the landmark all-American racers — and insights into life with their creator, the incomparable Lance Reventlow.
- Working as crew chief to the brilliant Jim Hall, preparing and running his Lotus Eleven and Lister-Chevrolet long before the famous Chaparrals emerged.
- A second spell with Scarab, this time with the Formula 1 project — the first American Grand Prix car — plus a special job for Reventlow converting a Scarab sports racer into a street car.
- Onwards into setting up his own successful business, IECO (Induction Engineering Co), to create and sell high-grade performance and appearance accessories, with Chevrolets — especially Corvair and Vega — featuring strongly.
- His many-faceted dealings with Carroll Shelby, leading to consultancy and even assignments as occasional Shelby American company pilot.
- Along the way we meet many other big names of the era, including Chuck Daigh, Bruce Kessler, Warren Olson, Dick Troutman, Tom Barnes, Phil Remington, Ken Miles, Leo Goossen, Jim Travers, Frank Coon, Ed Donovan and Pete Brock.
This engaging memoir is the very personal history of a momentous time and place in which we meet a who’s who of West Coast road-racing heroes.
Rediscover the Golden years of Formula 1 through the perspective of F1 helmets!
18 F1 drivers, including 5 world champions took part on this project. We also interviewed the finest painters and technicians of the major helmets brands.
Formula Helmet is a wonderful book detailing the evolution of helmets in Formula One racing from 1969 to 1999, often referred to as the ‘Golden Era’ of F1 and helmet design. The book was compiled and written by Bruno Bayol, with a foreword from the incomparable Scotsman Jackie Stewart. And it’s subtitle “The Glory Years Of F1 Helmets” really does describe how iconic the drivers, car & helmet liveries were back then and how safety & design worked hand-in-hand.
The book is filled with incredible photography and content and is divided into 5 sections: Evolution, Hommage, Design, Marques and Champions. It will bring back many great memories for everyone from the casual F1 fan to the avid racing aficionados of this era of motor sport.
In order to celebrate one of the most epic duels of that era (1969-1999), we offer you the choice between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna covers.
Each edition is printed at 1480 units only; all are numbered with a special sticker.
Rediscover the Golden years of Formula 1 through the perspective of F1 helmets!
18 F1 drivers, including 5 world champions took part on this project. We also interviewed the finest painters and technicians of the major helmets brands.
Formula Helmet is a wonderful book detailing the evolution of helmets in Formula One racing from 1969 to 1999, often referred to as the ‘Golden Era’ of F1 and helmet design. The book was compiled and written by Bruno Bayol, with a foreword from the incomparable Scotsman Jackie Stewart. And it’s subtitle “The Glory Years Of F1 Helmets” really does describe how iconic the drivers, car & helmet liveries were back then and how safety & design worked hand-in-hand.
The book is filled with incredible photography and content and is divided into 5 sections: Evolution, Hommage, Design, Marques and Champions. It will bring back many great memories for everyone from the casual F1 fan to the avid racing aficionados of this era of motor sport.
In order to celebrate one of the most epic duels of that era (1969-1999), we offer you the choice between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna covers.
Each edition is printed at 1480 units only; all are numbered with a special sticker.
A collection of characters, drivers, champions and mechanics who animated Formula 1’s glorious sixties.
In this unique book, the first of a series that decade by decade will review the history of motorsport’s ultimate championship through to the 2000s, it is above all the portraits that speak, giving a face to men who have truly written the history of the blue ribbon series, all thanks to an incomparable repertoire of previously unpublished photos accompanied by texts by Gianni Cancellierii, one of the leading motorsport experts. 7 February 1960, Bruce McLaren wins the GP of Argentina at the wheel of a rear-engined Cooper that the year before had carried Jack Brabham to the World Championship title. This was the first great novelty of the decade: in order to be successful the cars had to have their engine behind the cockpit. Then, in 1961, came the 1.5-litre engines and even Ferrari followed the rear-engine trend. This was an epochal revolution. A decade was underway that would see great feats, great victories and great tragedies and of course great drivers of the calibre of Phil Hill, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Graham Hill, Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart and many others. However, in this “gallery of faces” there are also designers, team managers, mechanics, women in the pits as well as the ever-varied world of the tifosi. Formula 1 Portraits is all this and more, an overview of motorsport’s most important category, the book that should be on the shelves of every F1 connoisseur as well those of all the young neophytes approaching this enthralling world for the first time.
- Porsche design studies from 2005 to 2019, previously kept under wraps and published here for the first time
- An incomparable journey of discovery through the world of Porsche design!
When car companies present studies and prototypes, they allow a glimpse behind the scenes, a vision of what may come in the future. Apart from what is shown during official events and at fairs, there is an overwhelming number of drafts and models that remain hidden from the public for various reasons. This book achieves the impossible: a look at Porsche cars the public never laid eyes on – Porsche Unseen. Stefan Bogner was exclusively allowed to take pictures in the Porsche Design sanctum. The Porsche DNA is recognizable in any of the models shown, but the design is so new and unexpected that it suggests the existence of a parallel universe. A 1-litre Porsche? A coupé-like four seater with 911-looks? Single-seated roadsters with 1950’s flair? Stefan Bogner took photos of all of them – either as models or ready to drive. Jan Baedeker talked with Michael Mauer, Head of Design, and took down the enlightening background information. Join our extraordinary expedition of discovery through the world of Porsche Design! Text in English and German.
Toyota’s unique brand of luck came to the fore once again at the 2019 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Although the race finished with a 1-2 for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team, the finishing order saw a dramatic change in the final hours of the action, in a way that always seems to strike Toyota on the Circuit de la Sarthe.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is always about more than which car crosses the line first. The action-packed official review distills the surprise, excitement and drama of an entire day and night’s racing into four thrilling hours of high-quality entertainment.
Follow the stories in every class as teams and drivers set out to make their mark on the history books.
The challenge of driving at the limit through the night, hour after hour at speeds approaching 200mph on the straights, negotiating notorious corners with famous names such as Mulsanne, Indianapolis, Arnage, Esses and Terte Rouge where a momentary slip of concentration is enough to end hopes: all of the drama that makes Le Mans irresistible is here.
With the incomparable Radio Le Mans team providing detailed commentary every step of the way, the Official Review is the best way to relive this thrilling race in the comfort of your favourite armchair!
Extra features include on-board laps with Sebastien Buemi, Nicolas Lapierre, Laurens Vanthoor and Neel Jani, plus a stunning slow-mo sequence from the 2019 event.
The Autodelta story, Alfa Romeo’s more or less official racing department between 1963 and 1983. A tale of unforgettable victories, of two titles conquered in the World Championship for Marques, but also one of scalding defeats. Great names in the history of motorsport raced in the colours of the team born in the province of Udine and nurtured at Settimo Milanese including Ignazio Giunti, Nino Vaccarella, Andrea de Adamich and Toine Hezemans. All drivers who competed – under the aegis of the incomparable Carlo Chiti – at the wheel of unforgettable cars such as the Giulia TZ, the GTA, the 33 in its various guises, the Alfetta GT rally cars and naturally the less successful Formula 1 machines. All this is revived in a book constructed around painstaking research and illustrated with hundreds of photographs, many of which previously unpublished
As you’ll discover in his incomparable memoir, the inventor, mechanic, TV presenter, and definition of the British eccentric Edd China sees things differently. An unstoppable enthusiast from an early age, Edd had thirty-five ongoing car projects while he was at university, not counting the double-decker bus he was living in. Now he’s a man with not only a runaround sofa, but also a road-legal office, shed, bed, and bathroom. His first car was a more conventional 1303 Texas yellow Beetle, the start of an ongoing love affair with VW, even though it got him arrested for attempted armed robbery. A human volcano of ideas and the ingenuity to make them happen, Edd is exhilarating company. Join him on his wild, wheeled adventures; see inside his engineering heroics; go behind the scenes on Wheeler Dealers. Climb aboard his giant motorized shopping cart, and let him take you into his parallel universe of possibility.
The first book on the body of work of Horacio Pagani, a true visionary, with spectacular photographs that transform Pagani’s extreme sports cars into unique and fascinating entities. A must-have book for all car and sports lovers.
Horacio Pagani’s work is a great adventure in artistic and engineering excellence. This book celebrates Pagani’s legendary supercars, which the wealthiest people in the world are prepared to spend a fortune on. Stunning photographs, aesthetic refinement, and perfectionism combine in this one-of-a-kind book.
The book offers a rare glimpse into how Pagani’s spectacular creations come about–how a very ambitious project can sprout from an intuition and flow into an outstanding, unique, and incomparable product.
Seven iconic cars are included from the Zonda and Huayra lines. The Zonda is a mid-engined car. It debuted in 1999, and production ended in 2017 with the 760 series cars and other commemorative special editions being produced till the same year. The Pagani Huayra succeeded the Zonda. It is named after Huayra-tata, a Quechua wind god. The Huayra was named Hypercar of the Year 2012 by Top Gear magazine and received a very positive review when tested by Richard Hammond on Top Gear.
The history of Chrysler Corporation is, in many ways, a history of a company floundering from one financial crisis to the next. While that has given shareholders fits for nearly a century, it has also motivated the Pentastar company to create some of the most outrageous, and collectible, cars ever built in the United States.
From the moment Chrysler unleashed the Firepower hemi V-8 engine on the world for the 1951 model year, they had been cranking out the most powerful engines on the market. Because the company pioneered the use of lightweight unibody technology, it had the stiffest, lightest bodies in which to put those most powerful engines, and that is the basic muscle-car formula: add one powerful engine to one light car.
When the muscle car era exploded onto the scene, Chrysler unleashed the mighty Mopar muscle cars, the Dodges and Plymouths that defined the era. Fabled nameplates like Charger, Road Runner, Super Bee, ‘Cuda, and Challenger defined the era and rank among the most valuable collector cars ever produced by an American automaker.
Featuring cars from the incomparable Brothers’ Collection, The Art of Mopar: Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth Muscle Cars celebrates these cars in studio portraits using the light-painting process perfected by Tom Loeser. It is the ultimate portrayal of the ultimate muscle cars.
The stories of Monza and Formula 1 are inseparable, two examples of motor sport par excellence that come together once a year, cross each other’s paths and bring to life pages of history rich in fascination. In this book, enthusiasts will find accounts, but above all the pictures covering the most significant moments in a long journey that began way back in 1949 to reach the present day, with the exploits of the stars of the wheel and the best single seaters ever. To cover once again this exciting partnership is to immerse oneself in drivers, technicians, cars and the spectators – those of Monza are unique and incomparable – triumphs and tragedies. Hundreds of mostly previously unpublished pictures in colour and black and white comprise the structure of this volume, which just has to be in the libraries of all Formula 1 enthusiasts.
They Called Me Mr. Bonanza is in some respects a continuation of Those Incomparable Bonanzas. There is a section of the book devoted to all the Bonanza models from 1972 through 1990, but another focus of the book is about life at Beech Aircraft Corporation from experience as a Bonanza customer service representative all the way to Program Manager for both the Bonanza and Baron.
In this book you will also learn how the Model 36 Bonanza came about… what caused the Aerobatic Bonanza to be developed… more on the V-Tail… how the vertical instrument program came to be… the name change from Debonair to Bonanza… what happened to the Beechcraft 38P Lightning… why the G33 Bonanza… and much more. There is also a section on Bonanza and Travel Air design concepts studied from 1946 through 1968 by Engineering’s preliminary design group.
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Some call them the best air-cooled Porsches ever, others the best cars in the world. They are the Porsche 911 sports cars that have been restored, re-imagined, and reborn by Singer Vehicle Design.
Each commission represents a unique collaboration between the customer and Singer, combining bespoke carbon fiber body panels, the finest in optimized mechanical and electrical components, superlative materials and finishes, and the spirit of the golden age of the iconic air-cooled 911. Every Singer-restored car is an incomparable work of impeccable craftsmanship. One More than 10: Singer and the Porsche 911 brings the reader as close to these beautiful machines as one can get, excepting the lucky few who own one.
Singer Vehicle Design is driven by the singular vision of Rob Dickinson, an ex-car designer and rock musician who came to be one of the world’s foremost distillers of the essence of air-cooled Porsche. Journalist Michael Harley and Dickinson tell the story, while an all-star cast of automotive writers, journalists, and personalities offer their perspectives on the Singer phenomenon. Throughout the book some of the finest photographers in the automotive world, with unparalleled access to Singer’s operations, reveal the sublime beauty of these Porsche 911s as they are restored, and as they play at the track and run the open road. More than that, the book tells the story of how a life-long obsession with the most important sports car on the planet, which began on an autoroute in France in the ’70s, came to find a home on the concours lawns and racetracks of the world’s most prestigious automotive events.
The incomparable 4×4 from Series 1 to Defender
One of the world’s most versatile and engaging vehicles is celebrated in this Ludvigsen Library book.
Conceived by Maurice Wilks of the Rover Motor Company as Britain’s answer to the ubiquitous Jeep, the Land-Rover made its bow in 1948. In accord with Wilk’s desires it was more versatile than the Jeep, making it the ideal farming and countryside vehicle – perhaps the first-ever sport-utility.
An explosion of different body styles and wheelbase lengths soon enriched the range of this popular off-roader, as did diesel and even V-8 engines. The Series 2 version was introduced in 1958 and the Series 3 in 1971. Special forward-control and military versions only increased the range of tasks this amazing vehicle could accomplish.
The original Land-Rover rolls on into the 21st Century, now styled as the Defender. Rare and original photos from the Ludvigsen Library and Marshall of Cambridge depict the evolution of this globe-girdling 4×4 over half a century, amplified by an introduction by “Landie” expert Paul Woods.
Here for the first time is the complete history of the sleek, sophisticated, incomparable Batmobile. From its humble beginnings in the pages of Detective Comics, to its reimaginings every decade in the pages of DC Comics, to its unforgettable appearances on the big screen, this book explores each incarnation of the Batmobile in incredible detail and scope.
In addition to comic books, the Batmobile has been immortalized in nearly every imaginable medium, including film, television, toys, and video games. Most recently, it was given breathtaking new life-and incredible capabilities-in Christopher Nolan’s extraordinary film trilogy, which concludes with 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. While each of the Batmobile’s incarnations will be explored, special attention will be paid to the “Tumbler” Batmobile from Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.
With stunning gatefolds and detailed specs, blueprints, and historical comparisons, BATMOBILE: The Complete History is an informational and visual delight for auto and Batman fans alike. It’s an unparalleled and high-speed journey that will leave you breathless.
“The Monza autodrome has played a fascinating and important role in more than a century of motor racing. Constructed in 1922, it was well known for its modern facilities and challenging race track. From the beginning, the greatest motor racing champions on both two and four wheels have campaigned cars and motorcycles built by the most prestigious constructors, pitting their abilities against each other on this track.
The task of this official publication by the Automobile Club of Milan is to live again Monza’s thrilling history through an incomparable collection of illustrations:
· 430 black and white and colors pictures featuring the star drivers;
· Riders;
· Cars and motorcycles that have raced there; and
· Plus pictures of the key changes to the facility itself during its more than 80 historic years.”