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 ?