Automobiles Books

Professional cars is an outstanding book; it gives a complete history of motorized ambulances, hearses and flower cars. This book has a wide variety of coach builders. This book is worth the money!!!!!!!

This book offers a very complete overview of a part of automotive history that is not often seen in print.

A great book. The name says it all

This book is the most excellent book I have ever read in TQM. The book's foreword is written by Quality Guru Armand V. Feigenbaum. Also, this book is highly praised by all quality gurus including Philip B. Crosby, Genichi Taguchi, and J.D. Power III. The authors explained how an effective quality systems to be implemented in any size of organization. This book is for any types of industry, not only for automotive. Every case study featured in the book is also reviewed by the renowned faculty from HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL and MIT's SLOAN MANAGEMENT SCHOOL. I highly recommend this book without any reservation.

This is the third book by Mr. Davis about, "doorslammers,". They just get better and better!

Larry Davis has another great book out as a follow up to Super Stock - Drag Racing the Family Sedan. This one mainly covers the factory built stockers and cars that made places like Woodward Avenue famous. Good clean photos (wish they could have been bigger though) of a lot of stockers. The focus is on the Midwest/Ohio are where Davis grew up. Great book, highly recommended!

This highly recommended car racing book will prove essential for any fan of auto sports. Tom Gillesie's Racing Families provides a tribute to the main race car dynasties who have generations involved in the sport, from the Pettys and Earnhardts to the Unsers and Waltrips. Each family is featured in a chapter packed with color photos and history.

Nascar is more of a family sport than any other sport in America. This book showcases NASCAR's greatest families. The Earnhardts, the Jarretts, the Allisons, and of course the Petty's. This book has great insights and awesome pictures. A must have for racing fans.

This book really is amazing. I would recommend this book to any one

This book really is amazing. I would recommend this book to any one

What a great collection of racing stories, entertaining and full of enjoyment and chuckles. A must have for anyone who is interested in American motor sports. The collections of photos in this book and the record they provide is a remarkable achievement in its own right. This book is an unusual accomplishment. Good work, Authors!

This is an amazing piece of Stock Car Racing History, and a MUST-have for all Stock Car racing enthusiasts, especially those of us who grew up around the racetracks of the West Coast. Thanks Jack, for your dedication to making this historically vital project happen!

I grew up around a mechanic father and I myself understand how to do things like changes brakes, oil, tie rods, ball joints and other moderate repairs but I am always looking at beginners books because even the most advanced mechanic can learn something from them. I know that this book is excellent at explaining how an engine works, air fuel mix, and combustion among other things. It may be a little outdated but it can give anyone a general idea on what to look for or even repair their own car. I know that once you read about what you are doing that it is much easier to look at the engine and even start to learn about it. This book also describes maintenence and simple repairs that most people don't believe that they can do or are too afraid to do. I think that it is great for anyone, beginner or advanced, because it has such a clear-cut way of describing things.

Even though this book was published in the early 80s, it still holds a wealth of useful information and extremely clear and well-drawn illustrations for anyone looking to learn more about cars. The first section of the book details each part of a car system by system (drive train, fuel injection, lubrication) and how each part works, the second part outlines the tools necessary for a complete shop, the third section is over 100 pages of maintanance tips, and the final section details repair for each system. It ends with helpful hints to get your car repaired correctly the first time. All sections have hundreds of accompanying illustrations for each step of the process. This may not be the latest, but it's defintely one of the greatest.

An interesting well written history of the first women to attempt and then accomplish driving across the United States. I initially purchased the book because I found my great-grandfather, Eugene Gnehm, was mentioned in the book. I found Mr. McConnell's review of the events in the early days of American automobile travel a good view of how things were only 100 years ago.

Although I was familiar with Alice Ramsey's 1909 trip, I was pleasantly surprised at the detail of the notes regarding Alice's and the other ladies' trips. For the serious researcher these notes are indispensable! Although I was not so familiar with the other ladies save Blanche Stuart Scott, Mr. McConnel provides much insight into their travels and is able to make a research book as enjoyable as an adventure novel. Blanch made her way into San Diego and garnered several paragraphs in 2 issues of the San Diego Motor News. One thing Mr. McConnel overlooked, according to the Motor News, Blanche's trip had been free of serious accidents until she reached the seaside town of Pacific Beach. "The accident, the first and only serious one, occurred at Pacific Beach, was due to a bit of careless driving when any thought of care had been banished from her mind." Since the author of this article was a salesman and soon to be owner of the Willys dealership in San Diego, he is excused, I guess, from giving us more details. Mr. McConnel makes it prefectly clear throughout this book that "company men" were less than forthright when describing the exploits of their female drivers (even my favorite, Alice Ramsey). I was annoyed however to learn of Willys-Overland's and Blanche's attempts to ignore Alice's trip. All in all a fine book, carefully (as far as I can determine) researched and certainly entertainly written. Michael Miller, Education Director, San Diego Automotive Museum

This book is excellent. It has all the numbers and stats that you could possibly want on any car sold in America.

Horsepower, options, engines, 0-60, pros, cons, and pretty much anything else that you can think of. All including pictures.

There are some extras as in new model spotlights, and coverage of some of the overseas autoshows.

Every car's page is layed out in a very easy to read manner. If you just like to know everything about cars, and I mean EVERYTHING than you must buy this book.

For any car person - this is the best guide to features and benefits on a model-by-model basis. Also, the reviews of the major International Auto Shows is excellent. I know of no other car book that even comes close to the content of this publication ! A Must Read !

If you or your children, friends or family have a drivers license, do them (and all of us) a big favour and buy a few copies of this book. I first read it when I was 18 and would sum it up as "the easiest, quickest, surest, cheapest way to literally double your driving ability and safety virtually overnight".

It is practical, simple and easy to apply. I can't remember the exact figures but what attracted me to the original version was the dramatic reduction in road accidents that the London Metropolitan police experienced after developing this driver training program.

Do yourself and all road users a favour - read it (and then re-read it every so often).

This is a UK publication. It covers driving and nothing but driving. No celebrities, no gloss and no hype.

Advanced police drivers in the UK are among the safest drivers on the road. They spend their day driving, in all weathers, in all traffic conditions at all speeds. Yet their accident rate is amongst the lowest anywhere. The system outlined in this book is what they apply to their driving.

If you only read one book on how to drive make it this book,