Car book recommendations invited (Part 2)

[ColinM]

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.
Of course I am still looking for anything interesting I don't have...

Previous topic here - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[ColinM]

I'm on the Porter Press mailing list and noticed the XJR-15 book, a bit expensive so I will probably pass. I only push the boat out for select titles (mostly on the Mac F1) the rest I usually get for a good price with some patience.

What to you think of the TWR Jags book ? One of the reviews on Amazon says "This is an excellent book suitable for 7-9 year olds." which seems like it might be for the wrong book.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of your car books.

[ColinM]

coppice said:

I review car and motorsport books for the US website speedreaders.info. Recent highlights have included Richard Jenkins' Tyrrell book, Damien Smith Benetton book, Crispian Besley's terrific Driven to Crime and Kassia St Clair's Race to the Future. One gem from a few years ago was Tom Karen's autobiography -Toymaker. An extraordinary story from a hugely likable man .

Big money , but Gordon Murray's One Formula - 50 years of car design is just superb.

If you want some ideas, search for my reviews on the website under my name - John Aston. (you can buy my own book too if you like; also reviewed on the website (not by me obvs ...) )

Thanks for the tips, I have added a few to my watch lists.
If a GMA T50/T33 book comes out I would definitely want it, have you heard any rumours on something ?

[ColinM]

RDMcG said:

I have quite a few- here are some of the Porsche books.........

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.

[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.