Ferrari Books

A rather odd hodge-podge covering Enzo Ferraris life, nice colour drawings of the GP and sports-racing cars, and many b/w photogtaphs of the road cars. Also chapters about oddities like F2 and hill climb cars. Worthwhile if you already have a few Ferrari books.

Pick this book up from classic motorbooks for less than $5. It lists all the 250's and who bought them. Plus anything special about each car.

This was a hotly awaited book when it was first published, and it is still a useful reference, even though terribly dated. This is a technical history, with the evolution of each model described by photos with detailed captions, full specifications, and side-view line drawings. The paper the book is printed on feels rather cheap but that did not detract too much from photo reproduction quality. Since nothing quite along these lines has come about lately, this is a good book to search for, but don't pay too much. Since the author is still active, maybe we can hope for an updated edition?

Maintenance tips focused on the older Ferrari V-12's and early V-8's. Good B&W photos of rebuild procedures, plus written descriptions. Most useful section I found to be the Magneti-Marelli distributor rebuild procedure.

Excellent pictorial & a wonderful resource for a fascinating time in racing history.

This book is a very nice book for the pictures. It has some very high quality images which are great to look at. It gives a great indication of what it was like in the early years.

All the technical data, and some racing history. Fair b/w photography

This is a great book for any Ferrari afficionado. I also got "The Racing Berlinettas" for my husband for Christmas and he loved them. So many stats and info for Ferrari lovers.

The cover of this book caught my eye. As much as I love the technologically advanced new era of Ferrari, I have a warm spot in my heart for the older cars, both race and road.

The photographs in this book are outstanding. Many are from angles that catch the beautiful handiwork wrought by the craftsmen of these early machines. There is no effort to hide the effects of age on these great machines. On the contrary, there are photographs of the fuel tanks, filler caps, camshaft covers and suspensions with spots of rust and the dings of use evident in most of them.

Rather than detracting from the cars, these photos add life to them. Most of the examples in this book are in lovely shape, but many have not been completely restored - actually a great thing.

Two things may keep this from being your favorite Ferrari book. First, it contains mostly race or race/GT cars. It is not an exhaustive catalog of all Ferrari models from inception to date. Secondly, certain cars only have 1 or 2 pictures and these may not be from the most encompassing angle. Other have 6-8 photos including the classic side shot. This may be a bit frustrating for some readers, especially those not fully familiar with all the models.

The models include 375 F1, 500 F2, 375 PLUS, 750 Monza, 250 GT Tour de France, 315S/335S, 250 GT California, 250 Testa Rossa/58, 250 Testa Rosse/59, 250 GT SWB, 196 SP/246 SP, 250 GTO, 250 LeMans, 275 GTB/GTC, Dino 206S, 330 P3/412 P, 512 S/512 M, 312 PB, 512 BB LM, F40/F40 LM, F333 SP, 212 E Montagna, 312 T5 Formula 1.

The text in each section describes the racing history of each model and gives a technical description. I found a few misspellings in the first two chapters (all I have read so far) but these may be a result of translation.

Overall a handsome book that I would not hesitate to put on the coffee table. It is sure to start a conversation.

The third edition of FINITE ELEMENTS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS by Silvester & Ferrari is an excellent book. However, I am quite disappointed with the removal of the section on scattering matrix calculation and waveguide discontinuity analysis which existed (Ch.9, section 4) in the second edition of the book.