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MG'S ABINGDON FACTORY £14.99 Those Were The Days ..... This book is a pictorial study of men and women drawn from all parts of the country to this little known rural town to take part in the building of a motor car.   96 pages, 160 colour and mono pictures, softbound (Moylan) CURRENTLY REPRINTING Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: MOTOR MOVIES - THE POSTERS £34.99 Beautifully photographed artwork to evoke memories of favourite cars in movies and give a fascinating insight into the evolution of cinema, marketing and the automobile.  Hardbound (Veysey)  224 pages, 250 colour photographs Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: TOP TRUMPS - EXTREME WHEELS £4.99 This book features 45 of the world's largest, most powerful, innovative or wacky vehicles, from made-to-order specials and weird custom cars to outrageous conversions and monster machines. Packed with fascinating facts, stunning photographs and all the vital statistics, this pocket guide will keep kids and grown-ups quiet for hours. Softbound (Oldham)  192 pages, 200 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CLASSIC BRITISH SPORTS CARS £15.99 56 open top icon roadsters feature in this authoritative, highly pictorial celebration of classic British sports cars, from the AC Ace to the Wolseley Horney Special, individual histories place each car in perspective, describing its appeal, significance and driving characteristics.  Hardbound (Pressnell) 128 pages, 175 colour and 34 b/w illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CROSSING THE SANDS £35.00 The Sahara Desert Track to Timbuktu - This book is rich in wonderful period photographs and vividly recounts the dangers and difficulties of exploration when in 1922 Andre Citroen carried out the first motorized expedition of the Sahara desert.  Hardbound (Audouin-Dubreuil) English text - 193 pages, 200 b/w, 20 colour photographs Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE DUNE BUGGY PHENOMENON 2 £12.99 Those Were The days Series...  Follow up to the first book documents the Dune Buggy into the 1980's.  Hardbound (Hale)  96 pages, 100 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF BRITISH CARS 1895-1975 £35.00 The most comprehensive record of British cars in a single volume. Covers nearly 700 manufacturers and some 3700 models. Hardbound (Culshaw & Horrobin)  496 pages, 1000+ photos Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: A-Z OF BRITISH CARS 1945-1980 £27.50 Full specifications, performance figures along with production numbers and dates.  Hardbound (Robson)  496 pages, 1300 black and white photos Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: HALCYON DAYS OF MOTORING 1900-1940 £14.99 Early photos of motors and motoring.  Hardbound (Demaus)  160 pages, 250 photos Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: EXTREME CARS £14.99 The Fastest , Wildest, Craziest, Oddest Cars Ever - a collection of 250 examples of cars that vary wildly from the norm.  Hardbound (Vokins)   128 pages, 150 colour & 100 b & w illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: JET BLAST & THE HAND OF FATE £29.95 A fantastic insight into the frustrations, tragedies and triumphs of record breaking - mix of land speed and long distance balloon record attempts, including the first supersonic land speed record.  Hardbound (Ackroyd)  288 pages, colour throughout Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: HOW TO DRAW AND PAINT CARS £17.99 This book is about drawing and painting all types and ages of cars - that will help and encourage those keen to draw and paint cars for pleasure or as a career. (Gardiner)  128 pages, 135 colour and mono illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: TV CARS-STAR CARS FROM THE WORLD OF TELEVISION £7.99 A behind-the-scenes look at four-wheeled stars from the world of television. It covers classic programmes of the past, such as The Avengers and Starsky and Hutch, recent series such as Mr. Bean and Only Fools and Horses, and current shows such as Life on Mars and The Apprentice, with a few surprises along the way. Packed with facts, anecdotes and photographs of the cars and their star drivers from the nation's favourite cop shows, dramas, sit-coms, sci-fi classics and documentaries.  Hardbound (Chapman)  128 pages, 200 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: RUST IN PEACE £27.00 Photographic archives of celebrated motoring historian Mike Worthington-Williams.  For over 40 years he has collected photos of derelict vehicles; in scrapyards, abandoned and deglected, but kept for sentimental reasons.  Hardbound (Tucker)  256 pages, 448 colour & 60 black and white photos  Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ULTIMATE GARAGES II £24.99 The stories behind the design and construction of these remarkable buildings, the collections they contain, and the dedicated and often eccentric enthusiasts who care for them - Hardbound (Berg)  224 pages, 260 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: A-Z BRITISH SPORTS CARS & THOROUGHBRED MOTOR CARS £35.00 1919-1939 - Providing coverage of more than 300 models from some 100 makers, all of them either open sports or high-performance cars. There is a short history of each marque, then each model is given a full description and specification together with comments on its place in the motoring scene. Every model is illustrated.  Hardbound (Walker) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: BRITISH WOODIES FROM THE 1920s TO THE 1950s £12.99 Those Were The Days Series... The work of hundreds of small coachbuilder firms is highlighted and illustrated with 100 rare and previously unpublished photos of these wooden wonders. Hardbound (Peck)   96 pages with 50 colour and 50 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: WHEN THE AA MAN SALUTED £12.99 More Halycon Days of Motoring -  Photographs dating from as early as 1900 up to the between-the-wars years recall an age when traffic calming, speed cameras and motorways would have been unimaginable. Softbound (Demaus)  160 pages with 200 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: MOTORCARAVANNING HANDBOOK £12.99 BUYING - OWNING - ENJOYING - Presented in a colourful, easy-to-follow format, contains invaluable advice and answers all the questions you might have about motorcaravanning, covering everything from choosing and buying a motorcaravan to selecting and using sites in the UK and abroad. This book will be essential reading for anyone contemplating buying their first motorcaravan and for existing owners looking to maximise their enjoyment of the opportunities that owning a motorcaravan presents. Softbound (Wickersham)  288 pages with 400 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CAR COLLECTING - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW £16.99 Covers all aspects of intelligent and realistic car collecting, from budgeting to buying at auction, insuring, restoring and maintaining. 160 pages with 300 colour images.  Hardbound (Linden) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: MICRO TRUCKS £14.99 Tiny Utility Vehicles from Around the World - The first book ever on micro trucks. Includes many rarely-seen examples - specifications - full colour photography - restoration and maintenance tips - more. 96 pages with 98 colour images.  Softbound (Mort) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ON THREE WHEELS - THE THREE-WHEELER CAR IN BRITAIN £5.95 Story of the the three-wheeler from earliest days through the boom-time of the cyclecar era and on to the postwar years.  (Ward)  Softbound - 31 pages with 50 colour and 120 black and white images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: TAXI - PURPOSE-BUILT CABS IN BRITAIN £5.95 A brief but informative and well illustrated overview. (Ward)  Softbound - 31 pages with 50 colour and 120 black and white images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CARS OF THE SOVIET UNION £30.00 THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY - Follows the history of Soviet cars in great detail from the birth of the Soviet Union in 1917 until its demise in 1990, with a conclusion about the post-Soviet era. Full of rarely-seen mono and colour photos. (Thompson) Hardbound - 336 pages with 150 colour and 150 black and white images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: SUPERCARS £8.99 Contains four books originally published in the "Enthusiast Colour" series: Supercars, Jaguar, Porsche 911, Viper. (Lamm) Hardbound - 380 pages with 400 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: MASTERS OF CAR DESIGN £26.95 Colour photos and an entertaining narrative spotlight the most innovative car designs and their manufacturers, from Ghia, Farina, Giugiaro and Bertone to GM, Chrysler and Ford. (Edsall)  Hardbound - 320 pages with 250 colour and 100 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: DO-IT-YOURSELF GUIDE TO BIODIESEL £9.99 How to manufacture biodiesel fuel at home - save money, reduce oil dependency and help the planet.  (Purcella) Softbound - 176 pages with 50 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: GILCO - LE MACCHINE DI GILBERTO COLOMBO £29.99 Gilberto Colombo was a technician and designer of remarkable ability whose work contributed much to the successes of Ferrari, as well as others. This book provided in-depth technical coverage of much of his work. Text in Italian and English. Numerous design drawings, racing shots and more.  (Moretti)  Softbound - 96 pages with 30 colour and 150 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE CLASSIC CUTAWAYS £25.00 This fascinating book features 100 of the trademark cutaway drawings that have appeared on the front of Haynes car manuals over the years. Each cutaway is presented across a double-page spread with accompanying text and specification about the car in question.  Hardbound 208 pages with 100 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: AUTOMOBILES LOST AND FOUND £19.99 Extraordinary stories of long-lost cars rediscovered - (Ware) Hardbound 256 pages with 200 colour and 100 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: DRIVING GAMES MANUAL £19.99 The Ultimate Guide to All Car-based Computer and Video Games - Starting with a history of racing games, and split into decades highlighting the major arcade, PC and console releases for that period, this book acts as a history, a buying guide and a practical manual, with sections on driving technique, car set-up/tuning, and the benefits of force-feedback steering wheels/simulators. (Sanches) Hardbound 176 pages with 300 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CAR DESIGN YEARBOOK 07 £29.95 Features all the new cars launched worldwide from April 2007 to March 2008. Also included are profiles of the industry's leading designers, a full technical glossary, a listing of all the motor shows in the year ahead. (Newbury) Hardbound 320 pages with 550 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: TOP GEAR - MY DAD HAD ONE OF THOSE £9.99 A celebration of the best-loved family cars from the 1950s to the 1980s, divided into categories such as "Sporty Dad," "Frugal Dad" and "Compact Dad". 160 pages with 48 colour and 27 black and white images, hardbound (Chapman) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: BRITISH SPORTS CARS £14.99 Flexibound edition of the book first published in hardbound form.  Features sporting cars for the millionaires and those built for the millions, from both major and minor manufacturers. Superb all-colour photography. Text in German, French and English. (Schlegelmilch) Softbound - 440 pages with 1000 colour photos. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE LONDON TAXI (2ND EDITION) £5.95 A "Shire Library" book following the development of taxis, the changing lifestyles of the Londoners who used them and the many different types of taxi. (Georgano) Softbound - 48 pages with 15 colour and 45 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ITALIAN AUTO LEGENDS - CLASSICS OF STYLE & DESIGN £12.95 "Compact edition" of book first published in 2006. Brings together 56 of the most impotant Italian cars from 1907 to modern times, providing succinct descriptions and data and outstanding colour photography.  (Heseltine) Softbound - 296 pages with 400 colour images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: LEARN TO DRIVE (2008/9 EDITION) £12.99 Fully updated to cover all the requirements, and how to meet them, of passing the driving test. (Davies)  Hardbound  384 pages with 500 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: KUSTOMLAND - THE CUSTOM CAR PHOTOGRAPHY OF JAMES P £16.99 Stunning photos from the collection of legendary custom photographer James Potter, spanning the years 1955-1959. Two- and four-page features on two dozen renowned customs from mild to radical include brief histories of the cars and captions detailing their particular points of interest. 128 pages with 75 colour and 75 black and white images, hardbound (Taylor) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: 101 BROCKBANK CARTOONS £6.99 Older enthusiasts will need no introduction to Brockbank's motoring cartoons. Nevertheless this collection of the best of his work will delight them as much as younger readers who will probably not know it. The book is introduced by Sue Ellis, Brockbank's daughter. (Ellis) Softbound - 112 pages with 101 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ART OF THE HOT ROD £25.00 A gallery of the best hot rods, profiling their builders, featuring studio portraits of their work and commenting on their most outstanding custom creations. These are racing cars as works of art, as powerful on the page as they are on street and racetrack. (Gross) hardbound - 240 pages with 300 colour and 20 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: EXOTIC CARS £9.99 An exhilarting survey of supercars from the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Shelby, Bugatti, McLaren, Porsche, many others.  (Lamm) Hardbound - 192 pages with 250 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ELECTRIC VEHICLES £5.95 An Auto Review book providing an international A-Z guide to electric vehicle manufacturers together with a brief introduction and history and a good array of photos.  (Ward)  Softbound - 32 pages with 54 colour and 83 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: A-Z OF CARS £20.00 Technical analysis and superb photography profile nearly 400 cars, each of which is considered one of the most significant ever made. (Holloway) Hardbound - 400 pages with 300 colour and 100 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: AUTOMOBILES - ELEGANCE ON WHEELS £24.95 Superb studio shots by a leading automotive photographer spotlight a wonderful assemblage of classic cars from the 1923 Duesenberg to the 1964 Mustang, the Ferraris of the 1990s and the 2006 Aston Martin D89 Volante convertible.  (De Lorenzo) Hardbound - 208 pages with 202 colour images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: BRITISH CARS OF THE SIXTIES (2ND EDITION) £19.99 This was the first book by renowned motor historian Doug Nye and was published back in 1970. New readers - and car collectors - will find a wealth of information on cars from AC to Wolseley, arranged on a chapter-per-marque basis. (Nye) Hardbound - 240 pages with 32 colour and 142 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: INSIDE THE BMW FACTORIES £24.99 With unique access to BMW's European and American factories, Graham Robson takes readers through the inside story of how this great car manufacturer works and how its methods of design, testing and production have evolved over the decades. 192 pages with 100 colour and 180 black and white images, hardbound (Robson) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: IT'S ONLY ORIGINAL ONCE - UNRESTORED CLASSIC CARS £22.99 Collector cars with their original parts, paint, upholstery and trim intact are the rarest of all collector cars and immensely valuable. This book focuses on a great variety of such vehicles, from a 1908 Mora and a 1910 Sears to later favourites like the BMW2002 and the Datsun Z cars. (Lentinello) Hardbound - 192 pages with 200 colour and 25 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ORIGINAL HIGHWAY CODE £7.99 Comprising four Highway Code booklets from 1931 to 1954, this book provides genuine insight into changing driving conditions in Britain and a nostalgic reminder of life on the road in those long-past days. Hardbound - 128 pages Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: COACHBUILDING-THE HAND CRAFTED CAR BODY £5.99 An informative book in the "Shire Library" series, looking back at the heyday of the coachbuilt motor car and the skills, materials and equipment involved.  (Ward) Softbound - 48 pages with 20 colour and 40 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: TIMEWARP CLASSICS £8.99 Looking back at the cars that changed the motoring landscape for ever. In all, 37 models are profiled, from Alfa Sud and Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite to Volkswagen Kombi and Volvo Amazion.  (Weeden) Softbound - 128 pages with 150 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE CAMPING MANUAL £16.99 Increasing numbers of people are discovering that camping is an economical and attractive holiday option. At last, here is a book that will tell you all you need to know about planning the perfect family camping trip. Whether it is a weekend in North Wales or two weeks in the Costa Brava, this attractively presented, all-colour manual will take you through choosing, buying and looking after tents, trailer tents and the many other accessories and equipment you will need. With clear step-by-step instructions throughout, this invaluable guide will enable you to be truly comfortable in your portable home. Hardbound (Frost) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CARS OF THE 1940S £9.99 Although WW2 temporarily put automotive innovation on hold, in America the 1940s brought the introduction of air-conditioning, along with automatic transmissions, high-compression V-8s and modern smooth-sided bodies - all milestone advancements which this heavily illustrated book. Hardbound  - 192 pages with 450 colour and 150 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ANGLO-AMERICAN CARS-FROM THE 1930'S TO THE 1970'S £14.99 Covers British cars powered by American engines and American cars fitted with British power plants, all built from the 1930s to 1970s. It is the first book dedicated solely to these unique hybrids bearing both American and British engineering, made for those who lust for driving something different. Brochures, period literature, road test info of the day, factory press kits and over sixty colour photos of restored examples provide detailed shots of the engines and styling that set these Anglo-American cars apart. Decade by decade information allows for direct comparison. Softbound (Mort) 96 pages with 100 colour and black and white images NEW Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: HOW TO ILLUSTRATE AND DESIGN CONCEPT CARS £17.99 This book provides an easy to follow guide on how to draw cars like the professional design studios. Covers materials used from pencils to markers, airbrushes to computer generated drawings. The book features clear and concise step-by-step guides to drawing all external components of a car, and teaches how to render them in order to bring them to life. It also showcases work that demonstrates how these techniques produce great car art and design. Softbound (Dewey) 128 pages with 200 pictures Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: RUSSIAN MOTOR VEHICLES - CZARIST PERIOD 1784-1917 £24.99 This work covers the motor vehicle industry in Russia prior to World War I and provides data on steam vehicles, electric vehicles, motor cars, trucks, motor cycles and military vehicles. The writer spent time in the former USSR researching the book, and to his knowledge it is the most comprehensive account of the subject ever produced. The archives of the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow were consulted in depth, and a large number of Russian books in the author's possession have also been examined to achieve a reliable report. Softbound (Kelly) 112 pages with 90 colour and mono pictures Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CLASSIC DORMOBILE CAMPER VANS £19.95 In 1957 the first really affordable camper van, the Dormobile, was introduced by the Folkestone coachbuilding company Martin Walter's. Throughout the 60s and 70s, Dormobile was by far Britain's bestselling motorcaravan, a common sight on campsites and beaches everywhere. This profusely illustrated book looks at the enormous variety of models built by the company until its closure in the 1990s. Hardbound (Watts) 160 pages with 150 colour and 150 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CONCEPT CARS-FROM THE 1930'S TO PRESENT £30.00 Updated edtiion, 2009, to include latest prorotypes. All the concept cars featured are authoritatively described and extensively illustrated in colour. 264 pages with 494 colour pics. Hardbound (Edsall)  NOT YET PUBLISHED Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: DRIVING ABROAD (3RD EDITION) £12.99 Full guidance on skills, advice, safety and laws for the driver journeying abroad in his own car or a hired one. Softbound (Davies) 224 pages with 350 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: LEGENDARY GERMAN CARS £28.00 German manufacturers have always played a leading part in car design and construction. This book with its 100s of photos looks at the very best of them - the Benz Patent Motorwagen 1 of 1886, the legendary pre-war racers, the ever-young 911, the BMW M3 and many, many others. Hardbound (Ruch) 304 pages with 200 colour and 150 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE ART OF GORDON CROSBY £30.00 Reissue of the book first published in 1978 and still the only work to cover the life and work of the celebrated motor racing artist, Gordon Crosby, whose paintings were accalimed for their life, vigour and mechanical accuracy. Hardbound (Garnier) 96 pages with 26 colour and 56 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: OLD DELIVERY VANS £4.99 (SHIRE LIBRARY 187) Traces the development of delivery vans from the 1920's and 1930's to the years after 1945. Softbound (Baldwin) 32 pages with 51 black and white images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: BRITISH FAMILY CARS OF THE 1950'S & I960'S £5.99 (SHIRE LIBRARY 489) Looks at the British cars of the years following WW2 and some of the imported cars which brought their own influence to bear on domestic manufacture.  Softbound (Pritchard) 56 pages with 60 colour and 20 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CARS & STARS - 50 YEARS OF DREAMS £40.00 Features text and period photos from the 1950s to the 2000s of famous people and their cars. Among those shown are James Dean, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Brigitte Bardot, Elvis and others.  Hardbound (Tagliaferri)  208 pages with 150 colour and 50 black and white images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CLASSIC CARS - HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR DREAM CAR £19.99 Expert guidance to buying a classic including how to choose the best for your own purposes, common problems, top 50 classic cars, cult car "factboxes," basic classic car maintenance etc.  hardbound (Long) 176 pages with 100 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: HOT ROD GARAGES £25.00 An intimate look at where and how the great hot rod and custom builders work, featuring all-new photographs and essays from one of the world's most respected hot rod/custom cameramen. Softbound (Vincent) 240 pages with 125 colour and 100 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: PETER EGAN ON THE ROAD £14.99 Peter Egan, longtime editor-at-large and columnist with "Road & Track" magazine, presents the very best of his adventures off the interstate from 1983 to 1996.  (Egan) Hardbound - 320 pages with 90 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: SURVIVOR - THE UNRESTORED COLLECTOR CAR £14.99 Stories of a wide range of cars as told by collectors, mechanics, painters, upholsterers, dealers and show officials. How the cars were found, how the decision was made to restore or not to, how the cars are judged and valued. (Palmer) Softbound - 192 pages with 200 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: YOU ARE WHAT YOU DRIVE £12.99 A tongue-in-cheek guide to what your car will tell about you, be it a Ferrari, a Ford Explorer, an MGB, or even a Hummer! Not to be taken too seriously, but great fun!  (Lamm) Softbound - 144 pages with  50 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: BARRIS CARS OF THE STARS £17.99 An amazing book detailing the most ingenious and sometimes outlandish creations Barris has achieved for the likes of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabor (a Rolls-Royce "dripping with jewels"), Clint Eastwood, Neil Diamond, Dean Martin and others.  (Fetherston) Softbound - 160 pages with 50 colour and 100 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CLASSIC CAR BUYER'S GUIDE £8.99 Practical buying advice, hints and tips on over 40 of the nation's best-loved classics, as first published in "Classic Cars Weekly".  (Weeden) Softbound - 146 pages with 100 colour images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: