Automotive category: 1940 books
by Steve Hole
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
In Build Your Own Kit Car, renowned kit car expert Steve Hole presents a comprehensive guide to planning, managing and executing a kit car build. The first part of the book covers the history of kit cars; detailing the innovations the kit car industry has made in car building technology, and how companies...
Ignition and Timing
A Guide to Rebuilding, Repair and Replacement
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
An essential guide to ignition and timing, for classic car owners and restorers. Aimed at both keen amateurs and professionals alike, Ignition and Timing covers the history and evolution of the automotive ignition system, and how to fit, modify and maintain your system for optimum timing and maximum...
by Jeannie Rios
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
A Crash Course on How to Change a Car Battery
Automotive batteries don't last forever, so if you notice your headlights dimming, it's been 3-7 years since you got a new battery, or the car needs a jump-start, it might be time for a change.
You can bring it to an experienced and...
by M J Nunney
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Light and Heavy Vehicle Technology, Fourth Edition, provides a complete text and reference to the design, construction and operation of the many and varied components of modern motor vehicles, including the knowledge needed to service and repair them. This book provides incomparable coverage of both...
The Car Hacker's Handbook
A Guide for the Penetration Tester
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Modern cars are more computerized than ever. Infotainment and navigation systems, Wi-Fi, automatic software updates, and other innovations aim to make driving more convenient. But vehicle technologies haven’t kept pace with today’s more hostile security environment, leaving millions vulnerable...
New Hemi Engines 2003-Present
How to Rebuild
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
When Chrysler released the "new" third-generation Hemi engine in 2003, the automotive public placed high expectations on the Hemi’s triumphant return. The Hemi Gen III 5.7L, 6.1L, and 6.2L supercharged and 6.4L engines didn’t disappoint; they produced copious amounts of horsepower and...
Motoring West
Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers,...
by David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The famous Culshaw and Horrobin _x001D_. The most comprehensive account of British cars ever published in one volume, this book presents a huge amount of information - historical as well as technical - in a way which will serve the needs of the dedicated enthusiast, automotive historian and the general reader.
"TV" Tommy Ivo
Drag Racing's Master Showman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In the early 1960s, Tommy Ivo had the world in the palm of his hands. Still a young man, he was already a star of television and film with a promising Hollywood future ahead of him. Then his producers told him he had to quit drag racing. He quit the entertainment industry instead.
This is the...
by Tina M. Kissinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Montgomery and Berks Counties have been central to the car industry for decades, employing residents of the cities and surrounding small towns. Pottstown first came to be known as the cruising capital of the East Coast in the 1950s and held on to the title for many years. In the 1960s, hundreds would...
Michigan's C. Harold Wills
The Genius Behind the Model T and the Wills Sainte Claire Automobile
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
One of the unsung heroes of the auto world, C. Harold Wills designed the Model T when he worked as Henry Ford's right-hand man. Later, he founded his own company to produce the legendary Wills Sainte Claire. Every endeavor displayed his trademark inventiveness, from the development of the overhead...
Terramechanics and Off-Road Vehicle Engineering
Terrain Behaviour, Off-Road Vehicle Performance and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Terramechanics and Off-Road Vehicle Engineering will be of great interest to any professional engineer or automotive engineering student working on off-road vehicles. Reflecting the increase in off-road vehicle production and development—recreational, agricultural, construction, military—this...
Hybrid Systems, Optimal Control and Hybrid Vehicles
Theory, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book assembles new methods showing the automotive engineer for the first time how hybrid vehicle configurations can be modeled as systems with discrete and continuous controls. These hybrid systems describe naturally and compactly the networks of embedded systems which use elements such as integrators,...
Return to Glory
The Story of Ford’s Revival and Victory at the Toughest Race in the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“This page-turning combination of business book and adventure saga tells the tale of the Ford Motor Company’s” 2016 triumph at Le Mans (The New York Times, “10 New Books We Recommend This Week”).
At the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, Ford unveiled a new car—and the automotive world lost its...