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Porsche Sixty Years
Author: Randy Leffingwell

No other sports car has had a run like Porsche's, on the street or on the world's racetracks. On the eve of Porsche's 60th anniversary, this richly illustrated volume tells the story of that fabled marque. Renowned automotive writer and photographer (and Porsche aficionado) Randy Leffingwell focuses his lens on each important model. His pictures, in-depth analyses of each car and its context, and interviews with key personnel comprise a complete, compelling, and often revealing history of the world's premier name in sports cars. Read more

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The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection
Author: Randy Leffingwell
Author: Darwin Holmstrom
Foreword: Bill Davidson

This book gives motorcycle enthusiasts an opportunity to pore over the bikes in Harley's once-private collection and in today's musuem. With detailed photographs and histories of the hundred motorcycles in Harley's collection, from serial number one built in 1903 to the latest low-slung Softail®, high-revving VRSC™, and touring models, the book captures the excitement of the best-known motorcycles in the world. Read more

 
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Art of the Hot Rod
Author: Ken Gross

The best hot rods are art on four wheels, and this book is nothing less than a gallery of the best of American hot rods. Profiling top builders and featuring studio portraits of their most outstanding custom creations, this book celebrates the uniquely American marriage of mechanical know-how and an inspired sense of style and design. Built from the ground up, pieced together from salvaged parts, rebuilt with classic looks and futuristic technology--these are automotive works of art, as powerful on the page as they are on the street. Read more

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Hemi Muscle Cars
Author: Darwin Holmstrom
Photographer: David Newhardt

Since the early years of the internal combustion engine, engineers recognized that the hemispherical head design, which utilized dome-shaped combustion chambers, generated phenomenal horsepower. Hemi Muscle Cars tells the story of the magnificent Hemi-powered performance cars and explains why the Hemi has blown away the competition for six decades--and still does so today. More importantly, the book shows how this potent engine became a cultural icon, how it came to define American performance cars. Read more

 
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American Muscle Supercars: Ultimate Street Performance from Shelby, Baldwin-Motion, Mr. Norm and Other Legendary Tuners
Author: David Newhardt

Discover the story of these tuner/builders and the supercars they unleashed on the American scene. From those Royal Pontiac tuner cars to the new Boss 302 Mustang built by Steve Saleen, this gorgeously illustrated book chronicles the outsize contribution of the tuner/builder to American automotive history. And the author also focuses on the tuners who continue to lead the way, builders such as Steve Saleen, Calloway, and SLP, whose vehicles are the fastest ever built. Read more

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Drag Racing Funny Cars: Factory Flyers to Flip-top Fuelers
Author: Lou Hart

Since the early 1960s, dealer-sponsored Super Stockers battled for supremacy on the quarter-mile and in the dealer showrooms. Evolving into the Factory Experimental class, these wild steel bodied, altered—wheelbase monsters were stuffed with massive fuel injected and supercharged engines that attracted crowds to the dragstrip! Follow the pioneers and A/FX stars who were instrumental in the development of the funny car as it morphed from a heavy production car into seven-second 250mph aerodynamic fiberglass, tubular chassis missile. Read more

 
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