All Entries Tagged With: "motorbooks"
Corvette in the Barn; a Book Review
I have driven Corvettes since I was 22 and have always had a “burning” for one of these bad ass machines. The dream has always been my dream to go visit a new friend and spot a 57 Vette in the corner of his garage were it has sat since 1960. One thing leads to [...]
Muscle Cars by Mike Mueller and Motorbooks
Motorbooks knows what us gear heads like and they have struck again. This new Muscle Car book is a smaller size paperback for $19.95 retail. You don’t even have to read to enjoy this one, it is full of great color photos. There are 55 muscle cars featured with 350 color photos. Production and performance [...]
Cobra in the Barn
Obviously, the title is to catch your eye. That must have been just what author Tom Cotter was thinking when he chose that title for his new Motorbooks publication. The book is a collection of short stories about the elusive barn find we all seek. The fact that the subjects of each story are successful [...]
Motion Performance; Tales of a Muscle Car Builder
Motorbooks with author Martyn L. Schorr has done it again. They have taken us back to the glory days of Muscle Cars in America. They tell us about the the American Dream of living your dream and they tell us about loosing that dream. Motion Performance is a very well know quantity to anyone into [...]
Hot Rod Tour to SEMA with Rolling Bones
We just received the following information from Motorbooks and thought you might be interested. Rolling Bones, one of the nations best-known hot rod shops, is teaming up with Motorbooks and rodders across the country on an adventure to SEMA! Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell (aka Rolling Bones) will drive their 1932 Ford Three Window Coupe [...]
Idea Books: Hot Rods, Interiors
How do you get your inspiration for a project? Mine come from all kinds of places but one of my favorite is to just thumb through books and magazines. I have been thinking about resto-moding the 69 Ford Talladega shell we have but couldn’t get an overall vision for it. To help kick start the [...]
Keeping a Muscle Car Alive
This book authored by Harvey White , Jr. and published by Motorbooks, applies to all cars of the 1960s and1970s with particular emphasis on muscle cars. It is for the beginner guy or gal who wants a good overview of the workings of a typical muscle car. You aren’t told how to repair every specific [...]
Corvette Fifty Years; Book Review
This is what it all started with and it is still just as beautiful today as the day it was designed. Randy Leffingwell wrote the book Corvette Fifty Years back in 2002 and is available through Motorbooks. I have owned over two dozen Corvettes. At one time I could tell the difference between a 65 [...]
Muscle Car Book Review: Camaro Forty Years
Motorbooks has published a great book by Darwin Holmstrom titled Camaro Forty Years. It is a combination coffee table book with wonderful David Newhardt photos with great historical info on the Camaro. Some call the Camaro a Pony Car but it is a Muscle Car in the right trim levels. Although most of us will [...]
Muscle Car Book Review: Pontiac GTO; 1964-1974 Collector’s Originality Guide
The GTO is claimed to be the beginning of the Muscle Car craze. We just completed reading this book and our review can be found in our Product Review page. If you are into GTOs, looking for one or just want to know more about them, this may be the book for you. The author [...]
Mustang, 101 Projects for Your Mustang
Since we are about to start on our own Project Mustang we thought we should pick up a copy of this book 101 Projects for Your Mustang 1964 1/2 -1973 by Earl G. Davis and Diane E. Perkins Davis and published by Motorbooks. I have been having a difficult time deciding what I wanted to [...]
Muscle Car Book; A Photo Shoot
PHOTO SHOOT I recently received a phone call from a representative of Motorbooks about photographing some of our cars for a new muscle car book they will be publishing next year, 2009. We have had cars photographed by them before and used on a calendar and some shots in a book; we also have had [...]
