Guide to the collections and museums of transport in Italy
The “Strada dei Musei” is a project of the Historic Automobile Club of Italy.
In this volume eight years of research has created a comprehensive directory describing and documenting over 250 collections and museums dedicated to cars, motorcycles, trucks, agricultural vehicles, planes, trains, boats, bicycles and carriages. The objective of the work is to offer an overview of the numerous resources present in the country, the result of passion, dedication, and research. Some collections are more known, others less known but all make a significant contribution to the history of the twentieth century. For every location, the book provides addresses, phone numbers, web contacts, thus helping the visitor to discover the rich history preserved for all in Italy.
Hardcover 370 Pages
Text English and Italian
An event as significant for Alfa Romeo enthusiasts as the reopening of the marque’s historic museum at Arese – held in 2015, the year in which Alfa celebrated its 105th anniversary – could hardly be celebrated without a book.
The official catalogue of the new museum represents an opportunity to review the history of the marque and above all to accompany the reader/visitor around the new exhibition layout in which the cars have been thematically grouped and subdivided.
The glorious racing cars (from the P2 to the 33 in all their variants, through to the less successful cars that competed in F1) are brought together under the section VELOCITA’ introduced by Alfa Romeo driver Nino Vaccarella, while cars such as the 1759, 8C 2900, 6C 2500, 1900, Giulietta and Alfetta, along with the most recent production models, illustrate the most important episodes in the Biscione’s industrial history in the TIMELINE section – introduced by American journalist Nick Czap.
The section BELLEZZA – introduced by designer Lorenzo Ramaciotti, head of Style for the Fiat Group for years – focuses on the undisputed protagonists being cars such as the 33 Stradale, the Carabo and the Nuvola, milestones in the evolution of automotive styling.
A specific chapter also features all those models that do not appear in the exhibition.
The catalogue is an indispensable instrument for all those visiting this authentic temple of history, technology and culture.
This is the Soft Cover edition.
A landmark book documenting the first-ever art amusement park – launched in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany – in anticipation of its global reintroduction
In the late 1980s, more than 30 of the era’s most acclaimed artists – including Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dalí, and Keith Haring – designed unique and fully operational fairground attractions specifically for the original park, including rides, interactive sculptures, games, performances, and music.
Each artist’s contribution is documented in photographs that show the artist at work, with details of the artworks, and showing the art in the context of the exhibition. Giving access to rare artworks that have not been widely viewed in 35 years, this book is being published for the first time in English with an updated preface.
Ever wonder what has been hiding in plain sight in the vaults of one of the world’s most celebrated automotive museums? The Petersen Automotive Museum’s newly published book entitled, “Treasures of the Vault Legends from the Petersen Automotive Museum presented by Hagerty” will reveal everything! With detailed descriptions of more than 50 important cars and enough quality images to satisfy even the most detail-oriented connoisseurs, it is both a treasure trove of information and a visual delight. Its painstakingly compiled research by Petersen Automotive Museum curators and historians and professional photography by Ted7 guarantee that it will serve as an important permanent reference work for automobile aficionados regardless of their automobile-related passions and areas of special interest.
- Softcover.
- 11 x 8.5 inches.
- Full color.
- 152 pages.
A pictorial review of the Museum of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including color photos of the main cars on display, with information on individual marques.
Complete participation history for all classes.
A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history.
A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history.
Written by a long-established motoring writer with wide experience of driving and the fettling of old cars all over the world.
This new motor museum companion includes: British motoring and transport museums guide via descriptions and photographs. 90 British museums described.
Comprehensive world motor museum listing: over 350 global museums cited. Out-takes from visits to selected overseas museums. Provides a glossary of old-car/motorcycle terms and types to assist the museum visitor and old car enthusiast. Discusses the museum culture and its new age.
After a lot longer process than we had expected, Volume 1 of a series of books featuring cars from the Lane Motor Museum collection is FINALLY HERE! With a foreword by noted collector and all-around car guy Jay Leno, text by acclaimed automotive writer Ken Gross, and photos by award-winning photographers Peter Harholdt and Bruce Sweetman, we hope this will satisfy our visitor’s longstanding and outspoken desire for “more” about the collection.
Featuring 50 vehicles, a bit of Lane Family history, and driving impressions about some of our favorites, we have tried to offer a well-rounded selection for this first volume. Outstanding photography and detailed research pack these 144 pages with automotive goodness.
This book tells the story of Ferrari and the Municipality of Maranello, recounting the succession of events that has resulted in the current state of the art Ferrari Museum in Maranello.
The many photographs show the great Ferraris that have been exhibited and those still present in the halls, symbols of a passion that is unique in the world and a tribute to the great Manufacturer.
The book continues to examine the current state of Ferrari, its continuous changes, and the new initiatives that make it the absolutely unique company it is in the world.
Hardcover
320 pages
Text in Italian
Introducing the updated and expanded 2019 Second Edition of the perfect tool for anyone who loves vintage and collector cars!
Motoring from coast to coast, this new edition of the
Roadster Guide to America’s Classic Car Museums & Attractions features more than 300 auto-themed sights.
Ranging from the Stanley Museum in Maine to the San Diego Automotive Museum, the book helps car buffs plan exciting adventures, or discover a fun car museum close to home. Whether it’s Model Ts, the “tail fin” era, muscle cars, elegant roadsters, early race cars, vintage trucks, and so much more, fans of classic cars will find all their favorites in one place in this comprehensive 400-page book packed with more than 60 photos.
With a focus on museums that are open to the public, the destinations run the gamut from full-throttle collections, like the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and the Petersen Automotive Museum, to smaller treasures like the Franklin Automobile Museum in Arizona, the Studebaker National Museum in Indiana, and Ohio’s National Packard Museum.
This unique travel guide also includes intriguing automotive sights like:The Tucker Trail in Pennsylvania, where you can see five Tuckers in one day; two Frank Lloyd Wright designed service stations; and Carhenge in Nebraska (it’s a quirky re-creation of Stonehenge made out of vintage American sedans), and many, many more.
Bring the Roadster Guide to America’s Classic Car Museums & Attractions along on your next road trip to discover fascinating car museums and vintage car attractions across America.
Printed in the USA.
This book explores the company’s history from the Studebaker family’s arrival in America through the company’s lasting legacy into the 21st century. The story is told through the vehicles and artifacts in the Studebaker National Museum, and highlighted throughout with images and illustrations from the Museum’s vast Archives. This unique book will be a treasure in any Studebaker lover’s library.
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Introducing the perfect tool for anyone who loves vintage and collector cars!
Motoring from coast to coast, the Roadster Guide to America’s Classic Car Museums & Attractions features over 250 auto-themed sights. Ranging from the Stanley Museum in Maine to the California Automobile Museum, the book helps car buffs plan exciting adventures, or discover a fun car museum close to home.
Whether it’s Model Ts, the “tail fin” era, muscle cars, elegant roadsters, early racecars, vintage trucks, and so much more, fans of classic cars will find all their favorites in one place in this comprehensive 340-page book packed with more than 60 photos.
The destinations run the gamut from full-throttle car collections, like the Henry Ford Museum and the NASCAR Hall of Fame, to smaller treasures like the Franklin Automobile Museum in Arizona, the Studebaker National Museum in Indiana, and Ohio’s National Packard Museum.
This unique travel guide also includes intriguing automotive sights like:
- The Tucker Trail in Pennsylvania, where you can see five Tuckers in one day,
- Cadillac Ranch in Texas,
- Carhenge in Nebraska (it’s a quirky re-creation of Stonehenge made out of vintage American sedans), and many, many more.
The book is also laced with intriguing auto-related anecdotes, including how Henry Ford cleverly used wooden scraps left over from Model T production to create Kingsford Charcoal.
Bring the Roadster Guide to America’s Classic Car Museums & Attractions along on your next road trip to discover fascinating car museums and vintage car attractions across America.
The story of the NEW Petersen in Los Angeles
- 1st Edition.
- Limited Edition: Only 1000 produced.
- Each book is numbered by hand.
In the 1930s, Pirelli’s advertising campaigns began to reflect the latest in graphic trends. This shift, based on the integration of technological and human culture, reached its zenith in the post-war period. Notable names in the school of Italian graphic design, as well as renowned international draughtsmen, worked on advertising for Pirelli products, helping to create an authentic Pirelli style, which itself came to symbolise quality, innovation and experimentation. This compendium of Pirelli heritage contains over 450 works made by over 200 world-famous artists, and represents a cross-section of the history of the figurative arts, graphic design, and corporate communication
An event as significant for Alfa Romeo enthusiasts as the reopening of the marque’s historic museum at Arese – held on 24 June 2015, the day on which Alfa celebrates its 105th anniversary – could hardly not be celebrated with a book.
The official catalogue of the new museum represents an opportunity to review the history of the marque and above all to accompany the reader/visitor around the new exhibition layout in which the cars have been thematically grouped and subdivided.
The glorious racing cars (from the P2 to the 33 in all their variants, through to the less successful cars that competed in F1) are brought together under the section VELOCITA’ introduced by Alfa Romeo driver Nino Vaccarella, while cars such as the 1759, 8C 2900, 6C 2500, 1900, Giulietta and Alfetta, along with the most recent production models, illustrate the most important episodes in the Biscione’s industrial history in the TIMELINE section – introduced by American journalist Nick Czap.
The section BELLEZZA – introduced by designer Lorenzo Ramaciotti, head of Style for the Fiat Group for years – focuses on the undisputed protagonists being cars such as the 33 Stradale, the Carabo and the Nuvola, milestones in the evolution of automotive styling.
A specific chapter also features all those models that do not appear in the exhibition.
The catalogue is therefore an indispensable instrument for all those visiting this authentic temple of history, technology and culture.
Henry’s Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The items represent both Henry Ford’s passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts-some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety-that account for almost half of the museum’s collections. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration for this book.
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which Ford established in Dearborn, Michigan in the late 1920s, was intended to recreate the slow-paced, rural character of America before the advent of the automobile. The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation.
This book explores the company’s history from the Studebaker family’s arrival in America through the company’s lasting legacy into the 21st century. The story is told through the vehicles and artifacts in the Studebaker National Museum, and highlighted throughout with images and illustrations from the Museum’s vast Archives. This unique book will be a treasure in any Studebaker lover’s library.
