Speed and a Microphone: An Introduction to Motor Sport by Robin Richards

$20.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

Classic Motorcycles in NZ by Kerry Swanson

$15.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

Speed and Luxury - The Great Cars by Dennis Adler

$14.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

Dazzling words and pictures celebrate the early automakers--from Cadillac and Chrysler to Duesenberg, Stutz, and Packard--as they create rolling works of art for the world's wealthiest and most powerful figures.

Moto GP: A Photographic Celebration by Philip Wain; Freddie Spencer (Foreword by)

$35.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

'Moto GP is about the individual's story, the battles between the individuals, the different personalities, the different men that are striving for one goal, to win the world championship'. Freddie Spencer, three-time world champion Since its earliest beginnings on public road courses to today's purpo se-built championship courses, Moto GP has always been about one thing: pushing man and machine to new heights of performance. Telling the story of how leading manufacturers such as Yamaha, Honda and Suzuki, have strived to build the perfect machine, and detailing the incredible rivalries of such sporting legends as Kenny Roberts and Barry Sheene, Freddie Spencer and Eddie Lawson, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo - to name just a few - Phil Wain uncovers the stories behind historic races, the innovations that made the best bikes on the grid and describes the infamous moments in which riders were made champions. Moto GP is a photographic celebration of the heroes, bikes and circuits that have defined the adrenaline-soaked world of motorbike racing. ...Show more

The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO: Every Model Since 1964 by Tom Glatch; Bob Lutz (Foreword by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Series: Complete Book Ser. | Reading Level: very good

The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO gives you a year-by-year, model-by-model exploration of the world's first muscle car, all in full color photography, most of which has never been published. When Pontiac created the original muscle car--the GTO--it reshaped the automotive world like a four-inch piston go ing through a three-inch cylinder bore. Everything changed the moment John Zachery DeLorean and his crew of hot-rodding miscreants bolted a big engine into a smaller car and created the 1964 GTO. Make no mistake: DeLorean and his partners in crime were genuine outlaws. The GTO broke so many of General Motors' corporate rules that the people responsible should have been fired. And they would have been, except the car was a hit.The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO explores every iteration of the first car created specifically for baby boomers. With rare photography from the archives of Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines, this book is the complete resource for fans of of the world's first muscle car. ...Show more

Boss Mustang: 50 Years by Donald Farr; Kevin Marti (Foreword by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

The Ford Boss Mustang is the most iconic pony car ever created, and this book covers it more extensively than any other. Boss Mustang: 50 Years--a fully expanded version of Mustang Boss 302--includes the complete history of its creation; racing and street histories of both the 302 and 429 models; and ph otos and interviews with Boss Mustang designers, engineers, racers, and more. Of all the legendary names in the history of the Ford Mustang, one stands apart: Boss. Originally created to homologate the new Boss 302 engine and option package for SCCA Trans-Am racing, the Mustang Boss 302 debuted for the 1969 model year and was built in limited numbers for the street through 1970. This book features never-before-seen production and racing photography, interviews with designers and engineers, and keen insight from author Donald Farr, a renowned Ford historian and Ford hall-of-fame inductee. Designed by the legendary Larry Shinoda, the Boss cars were easily distinguished from their less potent stablemates by their race-bred powerplant, standard front spoiler, and bold graphics. In 2012, Ford at long last revived this most revered of all Mustang models. With a new racing counterpart and a modern street version that delivers more than 440 horsepower, the Boss was truly back In 2013, Ford rolled out the Boss one more time. In Boss Mustang: 50 Years, Mustang historian Donald Farr offers a complete history of the car--from its late 1960s origins in Ford's boardrooms through its Trans-Am successes and untimely demise in 1970, up to the conception and development of the spectacular, limited-edition 2012 and 2013 Boss Mustangs. Packed with brilliant photography and firsthand accounts from the people who created the original Boss, as well as the team that resurrected Ford's most iconic Mustang for the 21st century, this is the story every Mustang enthusiast has been waiting to read. ...Show more

Trekka Dynasty by Todd Niall

$20.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

This is the home of the Trekka - the only vehicle to be designed and mass produced in New Zealand. Some 2,500 were built between 1966 and 1973. Only a few dozen remain roadworthy. Part social history, part motor industry nostalgia, the Trekka Dynasty follows threads from the start of the 1900's which wove together to create New Zealand's only homegrown production motor vehicle. These threads include the enterprise of English carpenter Arthur Turner and his stepson Noel, the all-powerful grip in which post-war New Zealand Governments held the manufacturing industry, and the myriad of controls which created the most distorted new car market in the western world. All would converge in the 1960's to give birth to the Trekka, an awkward jeep-like vehicle with Kiwi clothing and a communist heart. For a time, a new motor vehicle was finally within the grasp of nearly every New Zealander. And from there the world. More than a car story, it's a long-forgotten chapter of New Zealand history, interweaving the fortunes of the wheeling-and-dealing Turner family, New Zealand's industrial ambitions, and the paranoia of the Cold war era, in which even car manufacturers became 'subjects of interest' for spies. ...Show more

A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia's All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith

$15.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: near fine

This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls meets Amelia Earhart. It's the real-life story of a daring Australian woman who did something extraordinary - then met an early, mysterious end. From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasur e. She was a woman of 'rare achievement' who excelled as a motoring entrepreneur and inventor. Young, petite, boyish and full of charm, Alice was the first woman in Australia to successfully pull off an almost impossible feat: without family or husband to back her financially, she built a garage to her own specifications and established the country's first motor service run entirely by women. Alice was also an adventurer, and her most famous road trip occurred in 1926 in a Baby Austin she had purchased exclusively to prove that the smallest car off a production line could successfully make the 1500-mile-plus journey on and off road from Melbourne to Alice Springs, central Australia. However, less than a week after her return, Alice was fatally shot in the head at the rear of her own garage. She was only twenty-nine years old. Every newspaper in the country mourned her sudden loss. A coronial inquest concluded that Alice's death was accidental but testimonies at the inquest were full of inconsistencies. Alice's life was brief but extraordinary, and in this richly detailed and entertainingly told book this pioneering Australian woman comes to life for readers for the first time. ...Show more

The Drivers: A Celebration of New Zealand Motorsports' Greatest by Tim Nevison

$25.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

McLaren, Hulme and Amon have risen above the radar in New Zealand with colourful tales of skill, success, daring and disaster. To have merely competed overseas, let alone excelled at any level in motor sport, is to have achieved something beyond our local comprehension. In New Zealand, motor racing is f un, and expensive. Overseas, it is deadly serious, expensive beyond our grasp and hugely competitive. Greg Murphy, the best known driver in New Zealand today, is one of many Kiwis whose name has been on the lips of millions outside Australasia, in America and Europe. We track the careers of the extraordinary individuals who cut their teeth in New Zealand, then went the thousands of extra miles to put our flag on top in world motorsport. These include: Chris Amon, Craig Baird, Scott Dixon, Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren, David Oxton, Aaron Slight, Paul Radisich, Greg Murphy, Mike Thackwell, etc, etc. ...Show more

Clarkson on Cars by Jeremy Clarkson

$10.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: good

Jeremy Clarkson knows everything there is to know about cars. We know this because he has been telling us that on Top Gear for so long that a good number of the car manufacturers he's savaged have done the decent thing and gone out of business. And to prove it, he's collected his best writings on the su bject of cars and motoring. Irreverent, damn funny and offensive only to those with too much facial hair, this is writing with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit broken in all the right places. Sit back and enjoy the ride. ...Show more

Birth of the Beetle: The Development of the Volkswagen by Ferdinand Porsche by Chris Barber

$700.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: near fine

This is a record of the Beetle's early evolution, chronicled by an English teacher who spent 20 years digging through untapped sources, including archives he discovered at Porsche. The book covers the period from the Porsche expose of 17 January 1934 until July 1945, with the first lists of experimental and test cars by Porsche in Gmund, Austria. ...Show more

The Veteran Years of New Zealand Motoring by Pam MacLean; Brian Joyce

$30.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good