In the new edition of this classic text, Brian Laban brings the story of the AC Cobra up to date. In the early 1960s, a flamboyant Texan, Carroll Shelby, dreamed of a special kind of sports car, a marriage of European style with lusty, affordable American V8 power. He took his dream forward and he persuaded British sports car specialist AC Cars to build his car, and US industry giant the Ford Motor Co to fund it. Its name also came to him in a dream - Cobra. The original production of the Cobra lasted just five years and encompassed barely a thousand cars built within the original framework. But it was only the beginning of a story that is still very much alive, encompassing continuations, spin-offs, and a massive worldwide replica industry. Shelby and AC Cobra details the man behind the cars, the story of their development and engineering, racing pedigree and owning and driving these powerful, iconic cars today. Fully illustrated with 250 archive colour photographs.
There have been other generations of Jaguar XK since, but the definitive incarnation is the family of 6-cylinder sports cars that stretch from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, from XK120 to the E-Type. On road, on track and on rally stage, they built the foundations of Jaguars sporty image and giant-killing reputation, not to mention its commercial roots - especially in America. By any definition, the 6-cylinder XKs are at the heart of everything that Jaguar grew into. This is the complete story of the whole 6-cylinder XK generation, the circumstances, the people and the events that created it and made it a sports car legend - and guaranteed that forever after, in Jaguars vocabulary, XK would always mean sports car.
In January 1886, Karl Benz patented his motorwage, the worlds first practical automobile. From Germany, the motor car spread around Europe and, in the early 1890s, to America. This book offers an original view of the first 75 years of the motor car, with hundreds of wonderful photographs, taken exclusively from Getty Images. 352 pages, 400 b&w pictures. Text: English/French/German
Written by motorsports enthusiasts Brian Laban and Liam McCann, The Little Book of Ferrari tells the story of the worlds most iconic cars. The book looks at the man behind the legend, Enzo Ferrari, as well as the history of the marque as a racing team and manufacturer of iconic road cars. An absolute must for motoring and Ferrari fans.
La Gran Historia de Ferrari.Con una información exhaustiva e ilustraciones a todo color, La Gran Historia de Ferrari presenta una crónica completa de la prestigiosa compañía automovilística italiana. Desde los orígenes de Enzo Ferrari hasta la actualidad, con los más soberbios coches de carreras que lideran la Fórmula 1. Ésta es la historia del hombre, de los coches y de la pasión que forjaron la leyenda del cavallino rampante.
Cada Porsche es objeto de deseo y fascinación. Unos vehículos en los que, desde hace mucho tiempo, se ha apostado por la calidad y la fiabilidad, la seguridad, el confort y, cómo no, la técnica y el diseño. Este libro presenta, apoyado en un magnifico material grafico, los modelos mas sobresalientes, desde el 356 a los nuevos hibridos.
La historia de los Ferrari para carretera significa el triunfo de la belleza y la perfección tecnica. Desde el elegante biplaza 166 MM Barchetta de los primeros tiempos hasta el híbrido SF90, que incorpora las ultimas tecnologias derivadas de la Formula 1, cada modelo Ferrari es una obra maestra de brillante tecnica y diseño innovador.
