Car Books Thread

[zygalski]

Anyone remember the Classic Marques series?
I had half a dozen of them when I was a kid. Great books!

[Randy Winkman]

Afraid not. This was my favourite series and I still have these two plus some others.

[williamp]

Thats impressive. And if were doing you show me hours, I'll show me mine, here are mine (although the shelves are full, so there is a bit of overspill out of shot)

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[P5BNij]

SJR said:

I used to collect the excellent single marque / model “Original” car (and motorcycle) series of books each written by an acknowledged specialist and initially published by Bay View Books in the 1990s. Motor Books International continued the series with Herridge & Sons the current publisher of some of the titles. They used to be £20 each with a print run based on popularity. A couple of years ago the rare secondhanded editions of the Porsche 356 and Citroen DS books could cost up to £1,200 …. before Herridge & Sons opted to reprint them at £35 each.

https://www.herridgeandsons.com/cars?page=4

John Parnell has been working on an updated version of his Cooper S book since it first came out in '93, he's not quite there yet!

The Osprey books mentioned earlier are nice to have, I've recently bought the volumes on Aston Martin V8s, Jag XJs, AC Cobras and the Citroen SM.
Totting up the Brooklands road test books the other day, I've now got seventy two of them with two more on the way, they're rather addictive.