Whats on your shelf?

[Ffirg 005]

Assuming our local PHers read something other than Haynes.... what are people's favourite petrol-head reads? Here's my top 4...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Robert M Pirsig
If you own a spanner you know this one already.

Burt Munro Indian Legend of Speed (The Worlds Fastest Indian) - George Begg
The movie was a great story and Hopkins brilliant, but some of the facts got lost along the way. The book is fascinating in the extra detail.

A Boot Full of Right Arms
The London - Sahara - Munich rally in a modified Leyland P76. Why....?

Jupiters Travels - Ted Simon
A man and a Triumph ride around the world

[Esprit]

My Girlfriend is reading Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance at the moment... she's making tough going of it as she's not a technical person and is having trouble drawing the parallels. I've not read it yet, but once she's done it will go on my list.

Some of my faves:

"At the wheel" By James Clark - The great Jim Clark's autobiography.... halfway through it and loving it.

"Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken" By Murray Walker - Very enjoyable insight into motor racing over the past 40 years from someone who's been involved in more aspects of it than anyone.

"Colin Chapman - Lotus Engineering: Theories, Designs & Applications" By Hugh Haskell .... it's on my shelf and it's in the queue, I can't WAIT to read it

"Lotus Elite: Racing Car for the Road" By D. Ortenburger .... fantastic book on a fantastic car

[GravelBen]

Possum Bourne's bio is a real good read as well

[Kiwi XTR2]

Bit of a pattern developing here

[Dan M]

Into the Red, a review of some of Nick Mason's cars, with a neat CD of their noises. The 16 cylinder BRM is magic and uncharacteristically I think most of the cylinders were firing on that day.

Dan

[marksteamnz]

Some Unusual Engines by LJK Setright. Great read on the history of engine developement and the side alleys that have been explored to power trucks and cars.

Ralph Watson Special Engineer. Inspiring story of the Lycoming and BSA Specials and having spent some time with Ralph I count myself lucky. One of the good guys.

Thrust by Richard Noble. Covers the Noble's two land speed cars.

Man Against the Salt by Harvey Shapiro The Story of Art Arfons and his record breaking cars. Well hard.

The Story of a Stanley Steamer by George Woodbury. Got me into steam cars

Cheers
Mark Stacey

[speedy_thrills]

Securities analysis (Benjamin Graham, 1951 edition), One up on wall street (Peter Lynch and John Rothschild) and I’ve got a book about Standard Oil and John D. Rockerfeller coming.

…Ive bucked the trend havent I?…

[Kiwi XTR2]

speedy_thrills said:

Securities analysis (Benjamin Graham, 1951 edition), One up on wall street (Peter Lynch and John Rothschild) and I’ve got a book about Standard Oil and John D. Rockerfeller coming.

…Ive bucked the trend havent I?…

I presume we've all got 'A Brief History of Time' and 'The Universe in a Nutshell' so I didn't bother to mention them.

[marksteamnz]

"Favourite Petrol Head reads" I believe was the criteria??
If we want to get all la de da at my bed side currently.
Robert Fisks The great war for civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East.
Makers People making amazing things in Garages, Basements and Backyards ( I went into Technical books without my wife whee!)
Man Powered Aircraft, (I need to do some bending calcs and the structures section is good)
Warm House Cool House (We are building soon)
Magazines
Growing Today, Skeptical Enquirer, NZ Performance Car, Multihull world.
Plus a Bonhams cataloge with more steam car stuff than should be allowed (Gotta dream)

Phew looks like I'll never grow up

Cheers
Mark Stacey

[Kiwi XTR2]

marksteamnz said:

If we want to get all la de da at my bed side currently . . .

CIV-2005-404-4690
Under the Judicature Amendment Act 1972
And under the Declaratory Judgements Act 1908
In the matter of the Local Government Act 2002

BETWEEN
Neil Construction Limited
Cornerstone Group Limited
Landco Limited
Universal Homes Limited
Symphony Projects Limited
Bayswater Apartments Limited
Plaintiffs

AND
North Shore City Council
Defendant



Want to swap

After being an insomniac for 20plus years I'm now a narcoleptic

[marksteamnz]

I surrender!! Ploding through CNC fixturing for dummies doesn't compare.
What you need to help you relax and sleep is a nice sexy little bike engined sports car. Take it for a blast in those summer evenings and you'll be sorted...........LOL.
Cheers
Mark Stacey