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CT493.jpg America's Coolest Station Wagon

Now Available

 £21.95
Scotty Gosson takes an informative look at the station wagons from the 1920s-1970s. The book embraces modified wagons and the resurgence in popularity of many models from the Model Ts to Minis. Features cool, creative photos of restored, upgraded, and customized station wagons and is sure to make you smile. With 144 pages, 416 colour photos. SB.
SKU: CT493 ISBN: 9781934709450


 

CT502.jpg Car Spy - Secret Cars
Exposed By The Industry's
Most Notorious Photographer

Now Available

 £13.95
Car Spy is illustrated with more than 200 vintage black and white and modern colour images of domestic and foreign cars in various stages of development and testing. This book will narrate the humorous, behind the scenes stories to accompany the spy photos. With 224 pages & 226 colour photos. SB.
SKU: CT502 ISBN: 9781934709818
 

CT470.jpg Chrysler Concept Cars 1940-1970 £17.95
This book follows the design, development & creation of almost 50 Dodge, Chrysler & Plymouth concept cars during the postwar years. Readers get an inside look at the styling of the cars plus the performance developments & engineers unique ideas. With 144 pages & 250 colour & b/w photo. SB.
SKU: CT470 ISBN: 9781932494709
 

CT990.jpg Diggers Funnies Gassers & Altereds £29.95
Drag racing's golden era by Bob McClurg. In the 60's, drag racing evolved from a grass roots effort to a full-blown professional motorsport. Along the way, it created some of the most exciting racing and race cars ever built. With 204 pages including 248 colour & 128 b/w photos. HB.
SKU: CT990 ISBN: 9781884089909
 

CT500.jpg Ed Big Daddy Roth
(Now Soft Bound)		 £21.95
His Life, Times, Cars and Art. Who was Ed Roth? He was a force of nature & a creative genius whose work had a profound influence on popular culture & helped spawn numerous subcultures. To say his life was interesting is an understatement, from art to custom cars, monster shirts to VW-powered trikes. 192 pages, 90 colour & 176 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT500 ISBN: 9781934709672
 

CT465.jpg The Electroline Diaries £24.95
A journey with the Burbank Choppers Car Club. Author Laurent Bagnard follows the Choppers through California, Las Vegas & Japan. This book is a window into the unique lifestyle of the Choppers that has influenced gearhead culture around the world. With 208 pages, 155 colour & 120 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT465 ISBN: 9781932494655
 

CT475.jpg Fuel Altereds Forever £17.95
Author Steve Reyes has included more than 250 of his best photos of his favorite class: Fuel Altereds. Never before heard stories bring the action right to you. Relive drag racing's glory days through photos of rarely seen cars, first-hand accounts, stories of racers & their cars. With 192 pages, 129 colour & 164 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT475 ISBN: 9781932494754
 

CT452.jpg Fuelies: Fuel Injected Corvettes 1957-1965 £21.95
This book celebrates the nine years of production of the Corvette, engines & the fuel-injection units that transformed the car into a performance icon. Plus covers passenger car installations (Chevrolets from 1957 to 1959, Pontiacs & Chryslers) & other fuel injection oddities. With 192 pages, 300+ colour & 14 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT452 ISBN: 9781932494525
 

CT443.jpg Funny Car Fever £21.95
The birth of Drag Racing's Wildest. This book is a humorous, heart felt, first hand account of the most exciting years of the Funny Car class. Steve Reyes followed these fiberglass bodied, nitro burning machines & their drivers through its halcyon days. With 192 pages, 200 colour & 150 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT443 ISBN: 9781932494433
 

CT489.jpg Grumpy's Toys
The authorized history of Grumpy Jenkins cars		 £24.95
Bill "Grumpy" Jenkin's history at the drag strip began in the late 1950s. Author Doug Boyce has been following Jenkins throughout his racing career. Grumpy's Toys offers readers an unparalleled look behind the man and his machines. This book is essential for the true drag racing fan. With 176 pages, 300 photos. SB.
SKU: CT489 ISBN: 9781934709276
 

CT487.jpg Lost Hot Rods £21.95
Nearly all of these vintage rods and customs were found in urban or suburban garages. We tell the process of finding such great vehicles & giving many tips on how you can find them too. Each of these cars has its own unique story, it's own personal history, which makes this book a special collection of stories as well as then and now images. With 192 pages & 252 colour & 153 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT487 ISBN: 9781934709221
 

CT425.jpg Quarter-Mile Chaos: Images of Drag Racing Mayhem £29.95
Quarter-Mile Chaos looks at the treacherous side of drag racing's golden age. Almost 200 rare and stunning photographs from the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s capture terrifying fires, explosions, and crashes, all by-products of the quest to go faster. 172 pages including 100 colour & 100 b/w photos. HB.
SKU: CT425 ISBN: 9781932494259
 

BBPictures/CT486.jpg Rat Rods
Rodding's Imperfect Stepchildren

Release Date
1st April 2012

£24.95
Author Scotty Gosson shares a wide range of rat rod visions, including many early Ford cars and trucks, written with a witty and fun style, like the cars themselves. Rat Rods: Rodding's Imperfect Stepchildren is a celebration of this trend, and almost as importantly, the lifestyle that accompanies it. Cars from all over America and around the world are featured, and no two are the same. With 160 pages & 334 colour photos. SB.
SKU: CT486 ISBN: 9781934709214
 

CT492.jpg Rusted Muscle
A Collection of Derelict Dream Machines		 £21.95
Author Steve Magnante takes us on a tour across the United States, sharing his most memorable imagery that he has collected. Focusing purely on American muscle cars, it contains a high level of information regarding a particular year, make and model, decode the pictured vehicle's VIN number and data plate origin when new. With 176 pages, 420 colour photos. SB.
SKU: CT492 ISBN: 9781934709405
 

CT496.jpg Rusty Pickups
American Workhorses
Put To Pasture

Now Available

 £24.95
Rusty Pickups captures the attention of the pickup truck enthusiast as well as the art student and photo hobbyist. An artistic collection of derelict American pickup trucks from the 1920s-1970s, photographed using advanced techniques and styles, teamed with relevant period ads for contrast. These and other creative elements separate this book from others. With 144 pages, 241 colour photos. HB.
SKU: CT496 ISBN: 9781934709535
 

CT464.jpg Slingshot Spectacular: The Front-Engine Dragster Era £17.95
Steve Reyes photographed this bygone style of dragsters from 1963 to 1971, gathering great images & behind the scenes stories along the way. With personal stories to help you smell the nitro & feel the horsepower of the good ole days of front-engine, top-fuel racing. With 192 pages, 135 colour & 225 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT464 ISBN: 9781932494648
 

CT498.jpg Street Sleepers
The Art Of the Deceptively Fast Car

Now Available

 £24.95
The art of building a successful sleeper has varied over the decades as styles and times have changed. In Street Sleepers, the owners and builders of some of America's quickest street machines expose their deceptive secrets. Outstanding photography and in-depth owner interviews tell the tale, and with engine specs & quarter-mile track times are shared. With 144 pages, 321 colour photos. SB.
SKU: CT498 ISBN: 9781934709580
 

CT495.jpg Super Stock
Drag Racing
The Family Sedan
(Now Soft Bound)		 £21.95
Super Stock in the 60s, the most popular class of drag racing, factory Super Stock. It traces the evolution of the cars, engines, rules, from its beginnings in the mid-50s through the 60s. This was a time when Ford, Chrysler & General Motors competed on a weekly basis. With 210 pages, 310 b/w and colour photos. (This is a paperback release of the original hardcover edition). SB.
SKU: CT495 ISBN: 9781934709481
 

CT998.jpg Von Dutch: The Art, The Myth, The Legend £29.95
Von Dutch story is told using quotes culled from interviews, vintage photos, and images of the art and other works he left behind, this book chronicles Kenneth Howard's life from pinstriping beatnik to bus-dwelling hermit. With 192 pages including 100 colour & 200 b/w photos. HB.
SKU: CT998 ISBN: 9781884089985
 

CT485.jpg YENKO - The Man, The Machines, The Legend £29.95
This book follows the life of Don Yenko from birth to his untimely passing, & offers an in-depth look into the man behind the legendary cars. While the cars will always be the stars, the story of how they came to be is a fascinating one. With 208 pages & 350 colour & 100 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT485 ISBN 9781932494853
 

CT491.jpg Woodward Avenue: Cruising the Legendary Strip £24.95
Detroit's Woodward Avenue was America's center of gravity for cruising and street racing in the 1950s & 1960s. This book is filled with stories from the people who cruised & raced Woodward in that wonderful era plus details of factories that build cars that the Woodward crowd would buy and race. If you are into muscle cars, great street-racing stories this is a great trip down memory lane. With 160 pages, 168 colour & 75 b/w photos. SB.
SKU: CT491 ISBN: 9781932494914
 

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