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New Sticky: Book Thread
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08-11-2005 8:53pm#1
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Yes - absolutely. Great idea.
Some of mine:
LJK Setright - Drive On! A social history of the motorcar.
A different and interesting approach to the history of the automobile. As usual for Setright, it is loaded with his own personal biases but none the worse for that. Required reading for any fan of Bristol, Citroën or Honda, but a compelling read for any enthusiast.
Alan Clarke - Backfire
Funny, sad, interesting, pompous, arrogant - and that's just the book! The author was 10 times worse
Excellent collection of Alan Clarke's "Backfire" column in Classic Cars magazines, published posthumously.
Fabien Sabatés - LA DS 19, 1955-1966
A brief guide to the first half of the DS's life, well researched but occasionally a little dull in presentation. In French.
John Reynolds - Citroën: Daring to be Different
Good, detailed history of the marque and models, from the Traction Avant and 2CV to the CX, and a closing chapter on the PSA era (BX, XM, Visa, etc.)
includes Buying hints, variants and driving impressions.
Dominique Pagneux - La DS de mon père (1968-1976)
Nicely present book with good detail on unusual variants. In French
Rogé Rémond - DS, sacrée légende
I haven't really read it, but I'm not wild on it's presentation. Seems more "pop" than the others.
Jon Pressnel - Citroën DS, the Complete Story
With Reynold's "The Original Citroën DS" out of print and now too expensive this is an excellent alternative. Nicely presented, with good mix of detail and history.
Malcolm Bobbit - Citroën DS - Design Icon.
A nice coffee-table book, heavy on pictures, light on content.Written by a Traction expert, and it shows.
Olivier de Serres - DS, au panthéon de l'automobile
Only just got this, but my god it's a fabulous book. This could well the be the definitive DS book, a pity it's in French. Rumours of an english version next year.0 -
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The favourite book I own is "Vans and the truckin lifestyle".It documents the custom van movement in the US in the 70s.It is a full colour cofee table book with a cool fold out cover which imitates the rear doors of a Dodge custom van opening to reveal reclining babe on funfur bed with mirrored ceiling! It is full of great photos and stories of wild times and wacky vans.
Funfur, Naugahide, chrome everything, candy pearl paint, murals, chain steering wheels, wide wheels, bonnet scoops,flared arches, captains seats, 360 degree circular rotating beds , drinks cabinets, mirored ceilings, CB radios and big block blown engines lifting the front end of a 3ton plus van a few feet into the air on take off...... these are some of my favourite things!!!!
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If you ever read CAR magazine, you'll know who LKKS (Leonard Setright) was. If you didn't LJKS was one of th old school motoring journalists, the prototype of the genre, he passed away in recent years but left behind some facinating, arguementative and sometimes down right controversial writtings
Drive On, was written casting an eye back on a 65 year career, its a look at how the car has shaped our world. It delves deep into how the car changed to fit the world, fighting regulation and pushing technical development in a world of inertia. It also facinatingly delves into how the car changed the way we live our lives, how legislation and equality in a modern world have been twisted by 4 wheels and an engine.... do you know the central heating in your house and the clothes you wear day to day are directly traced back to the origins of the personal motorcar - really its in there.
It delves into the technical changes that have advanced the "car" - engines, brakes, heaters, geaboxes, suspension, tyres...
This is not a cofee table picture book, this is proper literature.
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Written by esteemed motoring historian Doug Nye with fabulous contibutions from Ron Dennis (McLaren grand pris team head honcho) and Gordon Murray (F1 designer), this heavy weight follows the story of the development of arguably the greatest motor car ever built.
Gordon Murray had, when the F1 road car program started up been mcLaren's chief grand prix designer for a decade. He had joined from BrabhamF1 where he had designed title winning cars for Piquet using BMWs 1200bhp turbo engine and went on to design title winning cars at McLaren for Prost and Senna. The F1 road car was a dream to creat the worlds ultimate supercar - with no compromise.
light weight, no power assistance, no electronic aids, advanced materials - the worlds first 100% carbon fibre road car chassis, gold in the engne bay as its the best heat reflecting material, a central driving position with 2 flanking passanger seats....and a hugely powerful BMW V12 derived from the M70 road car engine (I got one of them in my e32 750) which was designed by Paul Rosche (brabham F1 car connection).
Nye was in a unique position as an historian held in regard by McLaren teamowner Ron Dennis, Doug Nye has written a history of McLarens racing activities and has been in the grand prix game since the days of team founder Bruce McLaren, he now concentrates on historic racing, research and writting. He therefore had first hand access to the development program and with the contributions of designers, engineers and test drivers the book follows the drawing board to road gestation of this extra-ordinary car.
Only today 13 years later does the Bugatti Veyron challange the McLaren F1s title as ultimate supercar... but thats on another level altogether and perhaps they should not be seen as rivals.... who could choose if forced!!! who could ever find themselves in the position to have to choose between these 2 cars, each worth €1.5 million
If you want to know about the F1, this book is your first stop. Now getting rare and expensive, even second hand.
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