Car book recommendations invited (Part 2)

[RDMcG]

ColinM said:

I have been tempted by "Porsche 917: Photographic History" and "Porsche 917: Archives", but they are very expensive. How would you rate them ?

I will add the Newey book at some point. The A-Z books also look worthwhile.

Both well worth a read. A-

[coppice]

I've reviewed two books in the last few weeks for speedreaders -

- Bob Evans' autobiography . Bob was a fixture in UK single seaters in the late 60s and 70s and was most famous for his F5000 success. A good read about a lost era .

- The Likely Lads - about the frenetic era of 1 litre F3 which saw huge grids and brilliant racing across Europe in the mid and late 60s. A car crash of a book but a must read if you want to know more about the formula which gave the likes of Hunt, Peterson, Lauda , Wisell , Pescarolo and many other 'names' their break . Who remembers the F3 car with DAF Variomatic transmission ?

Here they are -

https://speedreaders.info/28535-happy-lucky-days-m...

https://speedreaders.info/28936-the-likely-lads-fr...

Edited by coppice on Thursday 9th May 17:27

[marcosgt]

ColinM said:

A couple of years ago I posted up my car book collection and invited recommendations for more.
Here is my updated collection, including several that were suggested here.
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What do you think of the F40 book? I've been looking for a really good book on it for decades!

Abbott said:

How To Build a Car: Adrian Newey

Agreed - As someone else (More or less) said, it manages to convey the complexities of race car engineering and design to simpletons like me!

M

Edited by marcosgt on Thursday 9th May 12:46

[ColinM]

marcosgt said:

What do you think of the F40 book? I've been looking for a really good book on it for decades!
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I have 2 F40 books, the one in that pic is by Porter Press 9781913089429, the other is by Giorgio Nada Editore 9788879118651 and is bilingual.
The Porter Press book is much bigger and about £62 at Amazon. It has more under the bodywork pics but about 50 pages of dry technical stats at the end. Overall very good but expensive.
The Giorgio Nada Editore book is about £36 at Amazon. It has more on Ferrari and the 288 GTO at the start and losts of pics of complete cars.
Both cover the racng cars and varients well.

[James82]

Did someone say F40? ;-) Especially the two books on the racing program (F40 LM, F40 GTE) are incredicly cool!

[coppice]

Indeed - but still a lttte way behind the autobiography of Enzo's barber I reviewed last year. Which wasn't easy as it's in Italian. Which I don't speak ..

[Abbott]

James82 said:

Did someone say F40? ;-) Especially the two books on the racing program (F40 LM, F40 GTE) are incredicly cool!

this should be in the "These pictures make my teeth itch" thread

[ColinM]

James82 said:

Did someone say F40? ;-) Especially the two books on the racing program (F40 LM, F40 GTE) are incredicly cool!

Which ones are the F40 LM, F40 GTE books? I tried looking up some of those from the spines but it seems a lot are non-English language. Apart from the two I have, are any in English ?

[coppice]

https://speedreaders.info/29089-formula-1-car-by-c...

Another speedreaders review from me - a detailed and well researched book of early 21C F1 cars. .

[Yertis]

Abbott said:

James82 said:

Did someone say F40? ;-) Especially the two books on the racing program (F40 LM, F40 GTE) are incredicly cool!

this should be in the "These pictures make my teeth itch" thread

I thought it looked quite good...

[Andy665]

Just had delivered "Roar of an Angel" - the story of the LFA written by the Chief Engineer - have a large collection of automotive books but this one stands out as being particularly good - highly recommended

[ColinM]

Andy665 said:

Just had delivered "Roar of an Angel" - the story of the LFA written by the Chief Engineer - have a large collection of automotive books but this one stands out as being particularly good - highly recommended

Thanks for the tip, I decided to get this. Contents page below for anyone else interested -

[Mezzanine]

ColinM said:

Andy665 said:

Just had delivered "Roar of an Angel" - the story of the LFA written by the Chief Engineer - have a large collection of automotive books but this one stands out as being particularly good - highly recommended

Thanks for the tip, I decided to get this. Contents page below for anyone else interested -

I also immediately order a copy when I saw it was an available.

Haven’t managed to get the wrapping of yet though.

Hope it’s as good as it looks.

[CammyN]

Is the Vintage Motoring Bookshop in Batley generally known?

High quality stuff,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/vintage-motorshop

[marine boy]

OP, great selection of books, helped design a few of the cars written about in various books in your fantastic collection

So always interested in a good technical read about the design, building and development of iconic racing/rally cars

Don't enjoy books that devote chapters and chapters to endless list of race results, sends mecto sleep

Not sure if you've read....

Porsche 917 - The Undercover Story by Gordon Wingrove, he worked for JW Automotive who helped develop the 917 into a race winning car

Highly recommend it, easily the most interesting, technical racing car book I've read, by a long way

Very keen to hear about any recommendations for must read Group B era, Delta S4 specifically or Group C books

[ColinM]

marine boy said:

Porsche 917 - The Undercover Story by Gordon Wingrove, he worked for JW Automotive who helped develop the 917 into a race winning car

Highly recommend it, easily the most interesting, technical racing car book I've read, by a long way

Very keen to hear about any recommendations for must read Group B era, Delta S4 specifically or Group C books

I have a price watch on that 917 book but its pretty rare and expensive.

For Group B rally and S4 these books are pretty good, first one has ten pages of results out of 240.
They are probably not as technical on the cars as I would prefer but worth getting.

Group B McKlein 9783927458567
Lancia Delta Integrale 9781787110762
Lancia Rally Group B: 037 Delta S4 ECV ECV2 9788879118477

[marine boy]

Thank, I'll take a look at your recommendations

[coppice]

Three review copies arrived yesterday- Evro's Derek Warwick and Jim Hall bios and, from BHP, a book by Derek Wild about working for Team Lotus.

I'll post links to the reviews in due course .

[coppice]

My review of Evro's Jim Hall book is here, and I think it is the first 'official ' review to appear - https://speedreaders.info/29479-texas-legend-jim-h...

Not a name familiar to some , as motorsport is both F1 and eurocentric , but the fact that Jim Hall and his Chaparrals has major fans in Messrs Newey and Murray speaks volumes. My book of the year so far .

[generationx]

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