Flash Drive Contents:
- The books (All are currently out-of-print).
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Flathead Ford & Mercury V-8 Identification & Rebuilder’s Guide
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Blown Flathead – Build a Supercharged Flathead Ford for the Street
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335 HP Flathead Ford V-8 Performance Handbook
- Building a High Performance Flathead Ford – 5 part video series illustrating the assembly and dyno testing of a modern high performance flathead.
- Motorhead Mart “Special” Favorites – Special videos of the Motorhead Mart “Special” kicking asphalt.
This is a digital collection of flathead Ford material never before available in one place. It is an accumulation of material gathered over a period of 65 years of building, testing, and driving these challenging and wonderful engines. Buying the flash drive allows all this material to be in one place, in a compact, searchable, economical format.
Several of us have started our own media company along with a cadre of experienced and talented freelancers. In The Garage Media is currently anchored by two major automotive brands with a third scheduled for release in January of 2021. Currently, there are two bi-monthly publications (going monthly in January 2021). All three, Classic Truck Performance, Modern Rodding, and, the latest, All Chevy Performance are accompanied by a full-service website and social media outlets. Yes, all three are up and running!
Modern Rodding is a high-quality print and digital format magazine dedicated to hot rods and muscle cars—from Model Ts to GTOs and everything in-between. Modern Rodding features include the latest in custom builds, technical articles, new products, and special features. Under the editorial direction/editor of Brian Brennan and Senior Editor Rob Fortier, MR’s large network of freelance writers and photographers are some of the best known in the street/hot rod and muscle car publishing world. The technical skills and articles generated by this group puts Modern Rodding into the number one and most respected position in the hot rod industry. With our sponsorship approach and distribution method, we are the largest circulated magazine in the street rod and muscle car market, period
Skill up for life on the road
Pinpoint your perfect rig
Practical buying advice
Van-specific travel tips
The variety of people seduced by the idea of living, or at least holidaying, in a home on wheels is wide and all-encompassing; from retired couples to digital nomads, and from surfers living on an extreme budget to start-up professionals.
Van Life celebrates every aspect of a home on wheels, with help and advice on successful holidays, exciting sabbaticals and even a complete transformation to van life, leaving the static comfort of a roof and four walls and heading off into the unknown. Chapters include help on choosing your vehicle, where to find advice on refurb and conversion, what to pack, what to leave behind, and how to achieve those day-to-day challenges on the open road – like making a cup of coffee, getting your laundry done and finding a safe place to sleep.
•Incredible miniature Porsches, photographed in ‘real-world’ settings – each model is 1/43rd scale
•All of the eight 911 generation in 99 models, among them the Porsche ‘Fledermaus’ (prototype TS 901), Porsche 901/911 and the Porsche 911 Carrera S (Porsche 992)
•Handy Porsche compendium, in chronical order from 1962 to 2019
•Informative, historical and technical details to each and every model
Five decades, eight generations, one number: 911.There is no other car as legendary as the Porsche 911. Old-timer, new release or racing car legend; fans worldwide are fascinated.
The Porsche 911, an epitome of a German sports car, is a world-renowned import success and dream car. In this multi-faceted work, the 99 most important models of the legend are presented chronologically as miniatures in a 1/43rd scale, each with a picture and text page, in an informative, entertaining and surprising way: as Urban Outlaw, flat speedster, Germany’s Next top model, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing… all put together by author Jörg Walz, a collector since childhood.
The author places the snapshots of vehicle miniatures in a ‘real’ environment and presents a well-assorted digital car museum. The charming interplay between a small car model set into a lively background is fascinating. The originally spontaneously created photo collection is completely simply “iPhotographed”, without further aids or artificial arrangements, initially taken for Instagram.
The cars of the 80’s, and 90’s are often remembered as slow, unsophisticated, or boring. But during this time many unique, beautiful, and (sometimes) awesome cars emerged as engineers, designers, and industrialists worked to bring their dreams to reality. Cars such as the iconic Delorean, the flamboyant Ferrari Testa Rossa, the game-changing Acura NSX, and more are represented in this book as bold works of art. Additionally, many work-in-progress images offer glimpses into the creative process. The illustrations in this book were created digitally using Adobe Sketch, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
An insight into the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the … Tank of the 21st century (Haynes Manuals)
Challenger 2 (CR2) is the British Army’s main battle tank. CR2 is based on the Challenger 1 tank, which served with distinction on operations in the Gulf War and the Balkans. Although a logical development of Challenger 1, CR2 is greatly superior. It is protected by second generation Chobham Armour and features a new digital fire control system that includes a panoramic commander’s sight, a laser range finder and a new version of the Thermal Observation and Gunnery Sight (TOGS II). The turret mounts the high pressure L30 120mm gun that fires conventional APDS-FS, HESH, smoke and depleted uranium projectiles with great accuracy.
Before regulations constricted automobile design, cars were small, lithe, and voluptuous. Engines were analog, transmissions were manual, and the experience was visceral. For much of Porsche’s history, their use of air cooled engines helped to differentiate them from their competition. Air cooled engines, which were simple, lightweight, and great sounding, powered some of the marque’s most winning, expressive, and iconic street and race cars.In this book, the legendary 356, 550 Spyder, 911, The DKW-Porsche Special, Carrera GTS, Carrera 6, 910, 914, and 959 are represented in bold, evocative works of art. The illustrations in this book were digitally painted in both photorealistic and graphic styles using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Sketch. In addition to the finished pieces, many images of the works in progress offer glimpses into the artist’s process. A chapter detailing his techniques is included as well.
About the Artist: Since childhood, Geoff wanted to study car design, but always found reasons not to follow that dream… opting to follow a more practical route instead. After graduating from the prestigious School of Visual Arts (SVA), Geoff spent several years as a graphic designer. In the early 90’s, a promising “new” field (interactive media) piqued his interest, so he returned to SVA to earn a graduate degree in Computer Art. He then embarked on a career in user experience design; first with Time-Warner (where he worked on innovations such as the world’s first interactive TV system), then with The Walt Disney Company, Pioneer Electronics, and others. In his late 40’s, his childhood passion for cars finally motivated him to leave his career and enroll in ArtCenter College of Design’s highly respected Transportation Design program. While in school, Geoff began sketching classic cars as a way to hone his visual communication skills. But as time passed, this activity grew into a great labor of love. Geoff has earned many awards (and patents) for his work, and has been featured in Petrolicious, Worth Magazine, Panorama Magazine, and his artwork is displayed publicly and privately throughout the United States.
Dedicated to the cars that have run the Mille Miglia, with photos and documents which illustrate and describe their participation. It is an ambitious project, the first of its kind and will be developed in a series of 10 volumes. Each car that participated in the Mille Miglia from 1927 to 1957 is presented through two tables: one covers all the original Mille Miglia in which it took part, a second table covers subsequent events related to the Mille Miglia. A third table includes the categories to which the car belongs according to AUTOMOTIVE MASTERPIECES and includes all the races and events in which the car has taken part all over the world over the years. In addition, the cars that have participated since 1958 at continuation and classic Mille Miglia events appear in another section of the book. In the first volume: 49 cars that took part in the original editions of the race and 42 of those taking part in the subsequent events related to the Mille Miglia from 1958 to today.
The book will be published entirely by AUTOMOTIVE MASTERPIECES under the patronage of the Mille Miglia Museum, written by Sandro Binelli. To increase the reading experience in the book, each car will have its own QR code, allowing a digital extension never seen before to even more historical details.
MILLE MIGLIA’S CHASSIS marks the beginning of a unique collection for the serious collector and historian, “something to have” for the enthisiast who wants to have all the cars that took part in the Mille Miglia in his library!
Limited edition of 1500 copies
A landmark new history from design journalist Nick Hull, Land Rover Design – 70 years of Success offers a detailed insight to the company’s design story, from the early days of Land Rover in Solihull to the latest generation of the Range Rover Velar in 2018.
The Land Rover was born from a desperate need by the Rover Company to develop a stop-gap model to provide cashflow in the post-war years. The original aim of a simple 4×4 agricultural tool soon developed into a multi-purpose vehicle that became the mainstay of the British Army and produced numerous offshoots for the emergency services, police, forestry and aid agencies worldwide.
This book details the personalities involved in the various projects since the late 1940s up to today: the designers, modellers and studio engineers. It charts the development of Land Rover and Range Rover projects in the UK, particularly those designed in the Gaydon studio that opened in 1996, and is still a key part of JLR’s design resource. From the early days of chalk drawings and wooden models to today’s digital renderings and milled clays for the latest Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover’s designers and technicians have never been short of creativity. This book tells their story, in their own words, and is a fitting tribute to the spirit and ethos of Land Rover design and engineering.
The first gasoline was sold in pharmacies―but this was to change in the 1950s. As the car experienced its great rise in popularity, gas stations began to pop up like mushrooms out of the ground. Futuristic and progressive, these modern temples of mobility became roadside reference points for young people hungry for independence, and to everyone who strove for a sense of freedom.
It’s a Gas! explores the surprisingly diverse world of the gas station―a functional high tech temple, a transit zone, a film set, a converted residence, or an abandoned ruin hidden in a backyard. The world of pumps is full of surprises, ready to be discovered in this book.
The preface was written by US-American talkshow legend and passionate car collector Jay Leno.
Sascha Friesike, Assistant Professor of Digital Innovation at VU University in Amsterdam and associated researcher at Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Berlin, is the author of the crime series Grobmann und Pieper and photographer of gas stations.
This volume contains chapters on: The Hand-Built Delahaye Project; Another Look at Digitally-Created Surfaces; Swedish Pullmax Universals, Part 1, The Machines; Swedish Pullmax Universals, Part 2, The Tooling; Shrinking and Stretching Machines; Reforming aka Contour, Profile and Finish-Forming; Eckold Ag, Lessons in Forming Sections. Includes, Body Bucks, Sheet Metal Spinning, Swedish Pullmax, Shrinkers/stretchers.
In many respects it is a book unlike many others. It is an individual, as all good books should be. It is quirky, eclectic, eccentric even, but in a world intent on reproducing that which has already been regurgitated I personally felt the need for something a bit more idiosyncratic, I can only hope that you agree!” – Simon Owen
A well known artist specialising in racing car subjects, the late Simon Owen’s detailed, expertly executed work conveys the life, the vibrancy, the essence and passion of motorsports and racing cars, like no other. Simon’s work is a visual feast for lovers of automotive art and motorsport. Over the last few years, Simon had worked on developing a series of stunningly detailed computer-generated digital images, focusing on individual racing cars and their liveries. Seventy-seven of these images have been compiled to create Racing Colours, and each is presented with a relevant quote from a legend of the motor racing world. Along with these beautiful and unique artworks, this book represents a chance to gain a rare peek into the artist’s working methods, revealing some of his developmental work and showing how the digital images were constructed.
Gunships: The Story of Spooky, Shadow, Stinger, and Spectre tells the dramatic story of transforming military cargo transports into deadly ground-attack aircraft used by the U.S. and other countries in worldwide conflicts from the Vietnam War to the Middle East today. This comprehensive and detailed accounting of gunships begins with piston-powered, WWII-era C-47s and progresses to the four-engine turboprop C-130 Hercules, showing how gunships evolved from using 20mm miniguns to 105mm Howitzers with digital-age Battle Management Centers housed onboard. These highly effective airplanes made history by removing the safe haven of night operations from the enemy, and allowing strategic victory that might not have otherwise been possible. Author Wayne Mutza not only carefully researched all of these aircraft and their paths to reality, but also tells the tale of the brave and persevering men who believed in this unique weapon system and who saw its development through to the end. This book features a wealth of outstanding color photographs, many of which have never before been published, and also contains detailed appendices documenting gunship production data, combat units, and aircraft losses.
As always, the 2018 edition of Ferrari Myth features a dazzling mix of Ferraris built for the road and the track—from ultra-rare classics of the 1950s and 1960s to the latest models from Maranello (A full list with details is included below). The calendar’s extra-large format—more than two feet tall and 1.6 feet wide—means that each car is displayed on a scale that really does it justice.
And for 2018 two exciting new dimensions have been added to Ferrari Myth. The new digital Ferrari Calendar app for smartphones and tablets takes owners online to view more images and even listen to the engine sounds. Finally, each calendar page includes a specially-prepared section that can be rubbed to release an original scent created for the calendar–one with hints of leather, gas and the race track.
With only 5,000 numbered copies issued each year, it’s no surprise that these official calendars have become prized collector’s items for the Ferrari faithful. Please note that the calendar is printed on heavy art-gloss stock and presented in a handsome Ferrari gift box that can serve as safe, protective storage in the years to come.
We are pleased to be the exclusive North American distributor of Günther Raupp’s calendars. In addition to the sample photographs seen above, we invite you to review the full twelve months of Ferraris at Günther Raupp’s Web site, www.raupp.com.
In any specialized subject, detailed trivia (technical, or otherwise) is sought and prized by enthusiasts worldwide. Interesting but little-known facts have been part of aviation lore since that industry first began in the early 1900s, and today’s digital aircraft are no different when it comes to this interest. Modeled after successful automotive books on the same theme, this book contains interesting and little-known facts about all aspects of aviation, written by a host of contributing authors, all of whom are well-respected experts in their fields.
This book provides an insightful and in-depth look at aviation history by highlighting many little-known, yet very important aviation facts. Stories are organized by category, such as military, commercial, and sport aviation. Other popular topics include pilots and personalities, aviation movies, TV shows, and model building. More than 100 excellent photographs serve as visual highlights complementing the text.
Although individual aircraft may have interesting technical histories, there are many small details that are actually vital to that aircraft’s success or failure. This book brings those types of facts to the forefront, giving the reader a plethora of compelling data and information that will broaden their understanding and appreciation of aviation in general, plus aircraft and the people who make them fly.
The revolutionary X-15 remains the fastest manned aircraft ever to fly. Built in in the two decades following World War II, it was the most successful of the high-speed X-planes. The only recently broken ‘sound barrier’ was smashed completely by the X-15, which could hit Mach 6.7 and soar to altitudes above 350,000ft, beyond the edge of space. Several pilots qualified as astronauts by flying above 50 miles altitude in the X-15, including Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon. The three X-15s made 199 flights, testing new technologies and techniques which greatly eased America’s entry into manned space travel, and made the Apollo missions and Space Shuttle viable propositions. With historical photographs and stunning digital artwork, this is the story of arguably the greatest of the X-Planes.
Exploring Ford UK’s design studios during the past 70 years, Ford Design in the UK – 70 Years of Success provides a unique insight into the company’s history, its UK studio locations, and delves into the lives of the designers, modellers and studio engineers.
As a profession, automotive design has changed hugely over the past century and continues to evolve as new processes are developed. This book charts the development of Ford projects in the UK, particularly those designed in the Dunton studio, which opened in 1967 and is still a key part of Ford’s design resource in Europe. From the early days of chalk drawings and wooden models for the Consul to today’s digital renderings and milled clays for the latest Transit, Ford’s designers and technicians have never been short of creativity. This book tells their story, in their own words.
As Europe plunged into World War II, Hitler ordered the development of a hi-tech secret weapon capable of taking the war across the Atlantic–the Messerschmitt Me 264. Chosen from designs for an “Amerika Bomber” tendered by Messerschmitt, Junkers, and Focke-Wulf, this ultra-long-range aircraft would be capable of attacking cities in the United States. Just one month before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the American entry into World War II, Hitler was promising, privately, to wage a “new war” against the USA after his victories in Europe. Dazzling digital artwork and 50 rare archival photographs perfectly complement the detailed analysis offered by Robert Forsyth as he examines the development, intended role, and influence of the aircraft that Hitler planned to use to bomb New York City.
