Showing posts with label Auto hobby books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auto hobby books. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

it's turning out to be a Smokey Yunick day, by coincidence! Lance is putting together a 55 Chev for his son... magnesium ZLI block, mag trans, mag Ramchargers Dana 60 for it, mag Hurst brakes, and mag Halibrands.

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Lance says he bought these magnesium T10 cases for 20 bucks at a garage sale. He doesn't say that it wasn't Smokey's Garage sale...
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Monday, April 27, 2026

the first volume of A.J. Foyt's biography is 656 pages, and there’s a second volume on the way, Octane Press is taking pre-orders for the book

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Foyt is the only driver to win the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.   https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-aj-foyt-biogr...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

this kid grew up, to write a book about racing helmets and run a car auction company

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His 660 page two-volume set called The Art of Racing: Helmets is about helmets worn by famous and less-famous race car drivers, some of whic...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

in book news... George just let me know about this, 50 Years of the Corvette Grand Sport. He's mentioned in it! As soon as he sends me a scan of that page I'll post it!

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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

wow, what a cool project this must have been back in the day when crew members were alive to meet and collect signatures from

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1370977924491987&set=gm.10163884908912728&idorvanity=9261317727

cool book on B 17s!

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4051963615115489&set=pcb.10163581313687728
Friday, December 12, 2025

Sign painting, Chicago Style, brief history (I love the signpainters, pinstripers, race car letterers)

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These are just notebook covers from a notebook company that makes a variety of covers to appeal to a wider variety of customers https://fiel...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

Thanks to M Currie for recommending I look at the illustrations of Ray Kuns! His book covers and illustrations have style!

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/385574-ross-steering-box-222994-where-was-it-used-p-a-acd/ Kuns authored the books Automotive Essentials, Auto...
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Saturday, August 02, 2025

a beautiful book on early airplanes, on Ebay for 100 bucks

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/255877704829
Saturday, June 28, 2025

this is cool news, Larry Chen's last 20 years of photography are now available in his book, Life at Shutter Speed, a 400+ page artistic compilation with 20 chapters, one for each year of his career.

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  He was selling two editions, the regular, for 125, and the special, and it doesn't matter what that cost, as they are all sold... and ...