Cars - General Books

By: Mark Christensen . Until 1946, hot rodding was generally considered a preoccupation of gearheads and juvenile delinquents. That all changed when car-crazy vets returned from the war with sophisticated mechanical training, courtesy of Uncle Sam. This...

By: George Barris, David Fetherston . George Barris is widely known as the "King of Kustomizers," a title that George has earned through his many years of innovative car building. Starting as a teenager who jazzed up his first car with flashy...

By: Billy F Gibbons . This is the 2011 published Paperback Edition of the original hardbound edition.Imagine stepping out of an air-conditioned Kwik-E-Mart and into the hot summer sun, cold soda in hand, when a long-and-low baby blue '62 Impala trolls...

By: Consumer Guide . A pictorial history of the sports car in America from 1946 to the present. Sports Car Chronicle is the fast- paced, illustrated story of the sports car in America. With more than 1000 photographs, period advertising, and fascinating...

2nd hand book in very good condition   By: Sam Dawson . Get behind the steering wheels of more than 50 of the most glamorous, beautiful, fast and capable cars of the fifties, sixties and seventies in this, the first of a series charting the true...

By: Keith Harman . Great American Hot Rods chronicles over 360 amazing cars from the streets, shows and strips of America. The strict criterion of featuring only pre-1949 cars is observed but beyond that anything goes! The author identifies and codifies...

Author: Pat Ganahl, ISBN: 9781613251584, Paperback, Published in 2014, 191 pages There's nothing completely clear about the man who called himself Von Dutch. The one thing you can be sure about is that you shouldn't believe everything you...

By: Tom Cotter . Legendary car designer, builder, and painter Dean Jeffries was never one to toot his own horn—part of the reason his extraordinary career in hot rods, Indy cars, TV and movie cars, and more has never been detailed as have those of...

By: Dain Gingerelli . Here are hot rodding's true pioneers--the guys who raced the lakes in the mid-century, the ones who broke the records, and those who, through sheer ingenuity, transformed discarded car bodies, flathead V-8s, and four-bangers into...

By: Bo Bertilsson . What began more than fifty years ago with Andy Brizio has become, over two generations, the shop that has defined modern hot rodding: Roy Brizio Street Rods. With winners at the prestigious Oakland Roadster Show, and customers like...

By: Alan Mayes . In the late 1930s, as roadster- and coupe-driving hot rodders started families, they suddenly needed reliable cars that could transport more than two people. Thus, custom cars were born—passenger automobiles turned into...

By: Ken Gross, Robert Genat . Hot rodding, at its core, has always been about speed. But the best examples of the breed have also been able to go fast with style, and often the styling cues — chopped tops, rakes, belly pans, etc. — are what...