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The Classic Car Book: The Definitive Visual History

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Author Peter Bodensteiner does a fine job of supplying sufficient text to place the cars within their historic timeline while taking nothing away from the stunning photography. Art of the Classic Car By Peter Bodensteiner (Author) and Peter Harholdt (Photographer) Published 2013

The foreword is by Formula One driver David Coulthard, and the book ends with technological challenges facing future supercar designers.Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! The Bonhams Guide to Classic Race and Sports Cars By Jared Zaugg and Robert Klanten Published 2015 Award-winning author, historian, and photographer Dennis Adler is one of America’s most published automotive writers. Adler is considered a classic car expert across the board but judging from this book, it’s clear that his favorite make of car bears the symbol of the prancing stallion.

Adler highlights the stand-out models from amongst a stellar collection of iconic vehicles covering seven decades. He also features Enzo Ferrari’s time at Alfa Romeo spent as a fledgling race manager. Classic car fans that have ever wondered how science, engineering, and Art influenced some of the world’s most outrageous sports cars will find this a coffee table must. Author Giles Chapman is one of the best car journalists around. The reoccurring theme in the prodigious number of books he’s authored and edited is the engaging and exciting style he writes. Acting as editor in chief for ‘The Classic Car Book,’ his influence is ever-present. The format is highly readable and provides a wealth of information without being overly formal. This stunning publication focuses on cars built during 1910–1940 and features the ultra-rare and restored classics that defined an automotive era dominated by luxury and art.

He showcases the best of British, America’s finest, and classic gems from Europe and beyond. A great deal of work has gone into the book’s eye-catching layouts, with plenty of detail and photos. Simon de Burton’s synopsis of each featured classic car includes technical details, cost when new, and engaging anecdotes from famous owners. Some of the earliest automotive books were serious analyses of that burgeoning industry - not to mention its abysmal safety record - but before long, the romance of the road captured the imagination of drivers and writers all over the world. Guidebooks for drivers in both Europe and North America began to appear alongside early accounts of what would become a 20th century rite of passage - The Road Trip. That was all for now! I am sure there is something for all lovers of the classic car scene. From the ultra-rare to the most elegantly designed, any of these fine books will add the finishing touch to your coffee table. Cheetham’s text covers big, bold, and beautiful American automobiles from the 1920s onwards and brings every model’s history and development milestones to life.

Million Dollar Classics’ featuring some of the most sought-after cars in the world, is an impossible-to-put-down coffee table book in every sense of the word. The motorcar first took to the road in 1885. And although some car manufacturers are still going strong today, there are many whose heritage you can only find in museums or as part of a personal collection. Pictures, diagrams, and illustrations help the text explain and describe the brain-aching science in understandable terms. Together with interviews from prominent name designers and engineers, from Bugatti, McLaren, and Lamborghini, this is a book that is impossible to put down. Speed, Style, and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection By Winston Goodfellow (Author), Beverly Rae Kimes (Author), Darcy Kuronen (Author), Michael Furman (Photographer), Ralph Lauren (Contributor) Published 2005If most coffee table books win their place based on their cover photo, ‘A Man & His Car’ would perhaps get overlooked. And to do this would be a great pity. Though the automobile had been around since the 1880s, and assembly line production of cars was started by Oldsmobile in the U.S. in 1902, it wasn't until 1908 that Henry Ford's Model-T introduced the first affordable, mass-produced motor car to North American consumers. Ford began expansion to Europe in 1911, igniting competition with manufacturers such as Wolseley Motors (later Austin) in Britain and Benz & Cie. in Germany, reducing prices even further. It was then that our love affair with the automobile and the open road truly began. There isn’t a car collector or enthusiast that hasn’t heard of Bonhams, one of the world’s most famous auction houses. Their auctions of rare and significant cars consistently reach record prices.

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