Histories and Personalities

This book stands as a full and complete history of Jenkins' career to date as told through his cars, and has been heartily authorized by Grumpy himself. Featured is an impressive collection of vintage photography on Jenkins' cars and career.

Whether it has been fate, circumstance, hard work, or pure luck, Heasley brings each collector car quest to life in vivid and compelling detail. Includes iconic cars such as the 1970 Shelby GT350, 1968 Dodge Hemi Dart drag race car and many others.

Author Steve Magnante is well known for his encyclopedia-like knowledge of automotive facts. There are 1001 well-researched muscle car facts in this book that even the most esteemed experts would be surprised to learn. Fans of these collectible cars will appreciate the technical and entertaining information shared on every page about all of the great American makes.

Long lauded as a family mover unworthy of respect, the vintage style of old wagons is now finding favor with enthusiasts. Separated from more typical vintage rides, in modified or customized form, wagons take on an entirely different personality.

Show Rods began as visions of futuristic cars and eventually morphed into cartoon-like representations of cars. This roundtable discussion from the industry's icons as well as great vintage photographs make this book a must-have.

Bean're: Motorcycle Nomad is an inspirational non-fiction story of a life-long adventure. Those who don't know Bean're will feel like they do after reading the account of one man who gave it all up and gained a great deal along the way.

Due to variations in weather, laws and road conditions, two distinctive schools of style emerged at the dawn of rodding. In East vs. West, hardcore devotees Alig and Kilmer have hit a home run with the various rides they have profiled in this book.

George the Painter - A Bathroom Reader, is five years worth of George's columns, roughly 75,000 words - and an additional 48 pages of color photos. And whether the topic is motorcycles, the posers who ride them or his recent trip from Arizona to the East Coast, the prose is entertaining and truly unique. George has a huge following, and after reading just a small sample of his writing, it's easy to see why.

Scores of interviews, in-depth research, and exceptional insight from veteran magazine editor Richard Truesdell and co-author Mark Fletcher has created a great book. Hurst Equipped captures the complete story from the production cars and race cars to the performance parts.

In this follow up to Jerry Heasley's Rare Finds, Heasley has built a collection of his finest stories, including the 1969 Boss prototype owned by Ford stylist Larry Shinoda, the original 1967 Shelby Mustang prototype and more.

Stock-class drag racing is celebrated in this new book, with hundreds of vintage color photographs showing the way it used to be. If you were a fan or participant back in the day, or love vintage drag cars, this is a book you'll thoroughly enjoy.

This book takes a look at many of the lost quarter-mile tracks across the country. Some of them are gone completely; paved over to make room for housing developments or strip malls. For fans of drag racing's past, it's a sobering and interesting study.

Pat Ganahl once again opens the archives and pounds the pavement in order to bring you the stories on some of the coolest cars ever to appear in shows or grace the pages of automotive magazines. A perfect companion to the best-selling Lost Hot Rods.

Whenever hot rodders get together to bench race the question, "Whatever happened to such-and-such car", invariably comes up. This paperback edition of Lost Hot Rods answers this question by finding nearly 100 lost hot rods, custom cars, and more.

These rods rarely sport paint jobs of any kind, and their owners aren't scared to drive them. They represent an attitude, but never take anything too seriously. Rat Rods are high on style but low on budget, and that's why so many love them.

When these dramatic images are teamed with print sales advertisements from the day, the result is compelling. The ad writer's enthusiasm for a brand new truck and the reality of that same hunk of steel rusting away years later is truly intriguing.

In Street Sleepers, the secrets are exposed and the owners and builders of some of America's quickest street machines share their deceptive art. Outstanding photography and in-depth owner interviews tell the tale, and even track times are shared.

The Dawn of Pro Stock by Steve Reyes is a celebration of the early years, when fans could really connect with the cars, and brand rivalries were intense. Witness 'Cudas, Mustangs, Camaros, Mavericks, and Vegas going at it in this amazing archive.

The Definitive Shelby Mustang Guide takes a detailed look at the performance and styling of the 1965-1970 Shelby Mustangs in text, photographs and charts/graphs and clears up many myths and misconceptions surrounding these legendary pony cars.

Covers everything that surrounded Woodward's action including Detroit's legendary DJs, the hang-outs and drive-ins, the high-performance dealerships that provided the cars, and the legendary speed shops that provided the parts.

Chevy's Chevelle, Impala, Camaro and Corvette go head-to-head against Pontiac's GTO and Firebird; Dodge's Charger, Coronet, Super Bee and Dart GTS; Olds 4-4-2 and Cutlass; Ford's Fairlane, Galaxie, and others.

Columns in this collection include Burning the Candle at Neither End, Tuning Secrets of the Ultra Slow, Garages of Ill Repute, A Field Guide to Noise, A Carb Named SU, and many others.

This second volume has dozens more Peter Egan columns from Road & Track magazine, including Cars of Atonement, Why I Like Driving, Lawn Mower U, Vintage Racing vs. 'Real' Racing, Invasion of the Minivans, and more.

A companion book to our two previous volumes but covering the next five years of Peter's Road & Track Side Glances columns. Stories include Decline of the low-cost cult car, Romance and the motor car, and more.