Car book recommendations invited (Part 2)
Discussion
I've reviewed two books in the last few weeks for speedreaders -
- Bob Evans' autobiography . Bob was a fixture in UK single seaters in the late 60s and 70s and was most famous for his F5000 success. A good read about a lost era .
- The Likely Lads - about the frenetic era of 1 litre F3 which saw huge grids and brilliant racing across Europe in the mid and late 60s. A car crash of a book but a must read if you want to know more about the formula which gave the likes of Hunt, Peterson, Lauda , Wisell , Pescarolo and many other 'names' their break . Who remembers the F3 car with DAF Variomatic transmission ?
Here they are -
https://speedreaders.info/28535-happy-lucky-days-m...
https://speedreaders.info/28936-the-likely-lads-fr...
- Bob Evans' autobiography . Bob was a fixture in UK single seaters in the late 60s and 70s and was most famous for his F5000 success. A good read about a lost era .
- The Likely Lads - about the frenetic era of 1 litre F3 which saw huge grids and brilliant racing across Europe in the mid and late 60s. A car crash of a book but a must read if you want to know more about the formula which gave the likes of Hunt, Peterson, Lauda , Wisell , Pescarolo and many other 'names' their break . Who remembers the F3 car with DAF Variomatic transmission ?
Here they are -
https://speedreaders.info/28535-happy-lucky-days-m...
https://speedreaders.info/28936-the-likely-lads-fr...
Edited by coppice on Thursday 9th May 17:27
ColinM said:
A couple of years ago I posted up my car book collection and invited recommendations for more.
Here is my updated collection, including several that were suggested here.
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What do you think of the F40 book? I've been looking for a really good book on it for decades!Here is my updated collection, including several that were suggested here.
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Abbott said:
How To Build a Car: Adrian Newey
Agreed - As someone else (More or less) said, it manages to convey the complexities of race car engineering and design to simpletons like me!M
Edited by marcosgt on Thursday 9th May 12:46
marcosgt said:
What do you think of the F40 book? I've been looking for a really good book on it for decades!
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I have 2 F40 books, the one in that pic is by Porter Press 9781913089429, the other is by Giorgio Nada Editore 9788879118651 and is bilingual.]
The Porter Press book is much bigger and about £62 at Amazon. It has more under the bodywork pics but about 50 pages of dry technical stats at the end. Overall very good but expensive.
The Giorgio Nada Editore book is about £36 at Amazon. It has more on Ferrari and the 288 GTO at the start and losts of pics of complete cars.
Both cover the racng cars and varients well.
James82 said:
Did someone say F40? ;-) Especially the two books on the racing program (F40 LM, F40 GTE) are incredicly cool!
Which ones are the F40 LM, F40 GTE books? I tried looking up some of those from the spines but it seems a lot are non-English language. Apart from the two I have, are any in English ?https://speedreaders.info/29089-formula-1-car-by-c...
Another speedreaders review from me - a detailed and well researched book of early 21C F1 cars. .
Another speedreaders review from me - a detailed and well researched book of early 21C F1 cars. .
Andy665 said:
Just had delivered "Roar of an Angel" - the story of the LFA written by the Chief Engineer - have a large collection of automotive books but this one stands out as being particularly good - highly recommended
Thanks for the tip, I decided to get this. Contents page below for anyone else interested -ColinM said:
Andy665 said:
Just had delivered "Roar of an Angel" - the story of the LFA written by the Chief Engineer - have a large collection of automotive books but this one stands out as being particularly good - highly recommended
Thanks for the tip, I decided to get this. Contents page below for anyone else interested -Haven’t managed to get the wrapping of yet though.
Hope it’s as good as it looks.
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