The Volkswagen Golf is a motoring paradox, seemingly never really changing its look but always pushing technical development forwards, a 'classless' car which still carries a 'premium' feel about it. 
The Golf didn't invent the idea of the front-wheel-drive hatchback, but its interpretation established the template that others would follow and the benchmark by which they are still judged today.
Marking its 40th anniversary, this meticulously researched book celebrates the Golf in the fullest detail yet. Containing over 300 photographs and much original material, it is both a timely reminder of the Golf's enduring appeal and a fitting tribute to a motoring legend.

The Volkswagen Golf Story: 40 Years of the Second People's Car

Engineering & Transportation

Hayes, Russell

Automotive

Behemoth Publishing LTD

Always fancied a VW Camper but don't know where to start? Perhaps you are already part of the VW fraternity and considering something newer and more comfortable, or something older and more interesting. Whatever your requirements, the VW Camper Buyers' Guide is the book you need to start your journey. Learn about the history of the VW Camper, including a rundown of classic conversions, which ones will suit your particular needs and which ones won't. Know what to look for when viewing Campers for sale and how much to pay. Have confidence to spot the right deal and understand the relative benefits of each generation of this iconic vehicle.

VW Camper Buyers' Guide

Copping, Richard

Following the success of the author's previous Formula 1 in Camera and Sports Car Racing in Camera titles spanning the 1950s, '60s and '70s, this new volume returns to the 1960s--surely the most exciting, perilous and ever varied period in Formula 1. Meticulously researched photographs are brought to life through the author's renowned commentary to create a visually stunning and highly nostalgic record of this dramatic decade. Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69, Volume Two will appeal to all motor-racing enthusiasts and especially to collectors of this impressive series.

Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69: Volume Two

Parker, Paul

The companion title to the author's Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69, Volume Two this is an updated edition of the original volume covering the 1960s and will appeal to all motor-racing enthusiasts and especially to new collectors of this successful series. 
Featuring evocative full-color photographs throughout, this book depicts one of the most exciting decades in the history of Formula 1. Also containing team, driver and results listings for each year, this beautiful and nostalgic book is enriched, as always, by the author'' meticulous picture research and well-observed commentary.

Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69: Volume One

The acclaimed In Camera series returns to take a further look at sports-car racing in the 1960s. This beautifully illustrated second volume reveals the reality and hazards of period racing but also its magnificence. Here are the machines, their intrepid drivers and the many and varied circuits, some of them still public roads, all brought to life through meticulously researched photographs and the author's renowned commentary. Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1960-69, Volume Two will appeal to all motorracing enthusiasts and especially to collectors of this impressive series.

Sports Car Racing in Camera 1960-69: Volume Two

When the Communists raised the red flag over Russia in October 1917, they inherited a country with virtually no truck industry. Britain, Germany, America and France had factories mass producing trucks; the Russians had a few tiny assembly plants, bolting together imported components. By the time of the Soviet Union's demise at the end of 1991, its engineers, designers and workers had created one of the world's largest truck industries. To do that, they had faced and overcome huge challenges.
The Soviet Union's communist system was the world's first attempt to create a new type of society, one that rejected the often chaotic and unstable rules of capitalism. For more than seventy years, trucks in the Soviet Union were designed and built to be part of a vast planned and ordered transport system, interacting rather than competing with trains and waterways. Each factory built specific trucks with their own roles to play in the grand design of the planned economy. Politics and revolutionary expediency were never far from the design studio, or the shop floor, making this a story as much about a nation as it is about an industry. 
The vast natural environment also played its part. Soviet truckers were faced with driving huge distances across a landscape that included some of the coldest and hottest places on earth, a country that spanned Europe and Asia, the Artic Circle and the Caucasus region. Service stations and motorways were few and far between in such a huge country, making reliability and serviceability far more important than driver comfort.
Trucks of the Soviet Union recounts how the truck industry helped build Soviet industrial might, shares the chaos and pain those proud truck makers suffered after the hammer and sickle was hauled down from the Kremlin flag poles and reveals the newly confident and buoyant truck industry that has risen from its post-Communist ashes to become a part of a newly resurgent Russia.

Trucks of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History

Thompson, Andy

This is an updated edition of the original In Camera volume covering Formula 1 in the 1970s, and will appeal to all motor-racing enthusiasts and especially to new collectors of this bestselling series. Featuring full-color photographs by Rainer Schlegelmilch throughout, this beautifully illustrated and deeply nostalgic book examines the evolution of Grand Prix motor racing through one of its classic decades when the sport became increasingly commercial and high-tech. As always, Paul Parker provides his well-observed captions and overviews of each year.

Formula 1 in Camera, 1970-79: Volume 1

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The acclaimed In Camera series returns to tackle sportscar racing in the 1980s, which provided a cornucopia of power and speed courtesy of Porsche, TWR Jaguar, Sauber Mercedes, Aston Martin, Lancia et al, famous names such as Jacky Ickx, Jochen Mass, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Derek Bell, Bob Wollek, Henri Pescarolo and Martin Brundle, while Sebring, Monza, Silverstone, the Nürburgring, Le Mans, Spa and many others provided a backdrop of extreme velocity and derring-do that is no longer possible alas. Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1980-89 will appeal to all motor-racing enthusiasts and especially to collectors of this hugely popular series.

Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1980-89

Extraordinarily detailed and fully illustrated, this is the story of Soviet cars from the birth of the Soviet Union in 1917 until its demise in 1991, including a chapter dedicated to the post-Soviet era. It is the story of an insular, state-run car industry in which the carefully thought-out ideas of ministerial planners, rather than the fickle nature of customers in a free market, determined what cars were made. The cars of the Soviet Union therefore have a unique heritage: designed for a social purpose, influenced by politicians, built with military needs in mind and sold in a country where the open road could be a 300-mile track across a windswept steppe. This is a fascinating book, full of rarely seen photographs and illustrations, largely in colour, that will interest classic car enthusiasts everywhere.

Cars of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History

In this updated edition of the original In Camera volume the world of sports-car racing in the 1960s springs to life through stunning full-colour period photography and the author’s detailed and well-observed commentary. From the harsh concrete of Sebring, the treacherous Sicilian country roads of the Targa Florio, the infinite corners, hidden apexes and never-ending crests of the Nurburgring, the banked Daytona and frightening Monza bowl and the aircraft velocities of Spa, Le Mans and Reims, all had to be overcome.

Sports Car Racing in Camera 1960-69: Volume One

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