Veloce imprint: 339 books
Mini Cooper
The Real Thing!
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Britain's mighty atom, the Mini Cooper, has a huge reputation out of all proportion to its size. The Mini was created by the fertile mind of Alec Issigonis and modified by John Cooper to become known as the Mini Cooper in 1961. Giant killing in motorsport, particularly in the Monte Carlo Rally, built...
by Graham Robson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This is a comprehensive study of the career of one type of rally car the BMC Mini-Cooper/Mini-Cooper S. In the 1960s the Mini became famous as Britain's most successful rally car. It combined superb handling, a tiny body shell, high-performance engines and the excellence of front-wheel-drive in an irresistible...
Works rally Mechanic
BMC/BL Works Rally Department 1955-79
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The inside story of the BMC/BL Competition Department from 1955 to 1979 under the various management styles of Marcus Chambers, Stuart Turner, Peter Browning, Basil Wales, Richard Seth-Smith, Bill Price and John Davenport. From a works mechanic’s point of view, Brian Moylan tells how competition cars...
by Peter McFadyen
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Oulton Park in the late 1960s was one of the last circuits to play host to non-championship Formula 1 races. Set in beautiful Cheshire park land, it has always been a favourite with drivers who relish its challenging curves and with spectators who could watch their heroes compete on a true road circuit....
Morris Minor
70 years on the road
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
The postwar Morris Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, was one of the most popular British cars. 2018 marks 70 years since the first Minors rolled off the production lines at Cowley in Oxfordshire. In this celebratory publication Ray Newell looks in detail at the development of the wide range of models...
by Tony Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book truly represents an enthusiast‘s view of the RAC Rally: allowing you to relive the events if you were there, or offering the next best thing if you weren‘t. Tony always took a week of his annual leave to watch 'The RAC', and reckons he covered more than 28,000 miles chasing rally stages...
Mini & Mini-Cooper
The Colour Family Album
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
A light-hearted and amusing text offers details of all Mini models and variants since 1959, including station wagons, vans and convertibles. These "miracles of packaging" are featured in a variety of top-notch color photographs.
The MGA
Revised Paperback Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This new book is the definitive study, for the author has gone back to factory records and to the people who worked on the car in the 'fifties, to find out how it was conceived, manufactured and marketed. Here is the real story of the MGA's engineering, body styling and every aspect of the car's development...
Don Hayter’s MGB Story
The birth of the MGB in MG’s Abingdon Design & Development Office
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This is the inside story of the workings of the MG Design and Development Office from 1956 until MG's closure in 1980. It explains how the various models were conceived, drawn, planned and developed by a small team of engineers. It also shows how the constant evolution of BMC, including the Triumph-Austin...
British Touring Car Racing
The crowd’s favourite - late 1960s to 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
This book is a brief but affectionate, mainly pictorial panorama of twenty-odd years of the British Touring Car Championship, from the anarchical 1960s and early 1970s of flared wheelarches, lifting wheels and smoking tyres, through the Group 1 years when the rule-makers tried to make the cars look standard...
Bluebird CN7
the inside story of Donald Campbell’s last Land Speed Record car
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Since the early 1920s the name Bluebird has been synonymous with world speed record breaking on land and water. Driven first by Sir Malcolm Campbell, then his son Donald, and latterly by Donald’s nephew Donald Wales in electric powered vehicles, they have consistently pushed records ever higher.This...
Alpine & Renault
The Development of the Revolutionary Turbo F1 Car: 1968 to 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This is a study of how the first turbo Grand Prix car came to be a reality. Starting with a brief history of Renault, the story moves to the development of Jean Redele’s company, Alpine, and the parts played by Gordini, Elf and Michelin, including much personal input from the men who made it. The first...
GT
The world’s best GT cars 1953-1973
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Get behind the wheels of more than 50 of the most glamorous, beautiful, fast and capable cars of the fifties, sixties and seventies in this, the first of a series charting the true Grand Touring cars, the history and the culture of long distance travel and exotic locations. These are the cars that inhabited...
by Julian Parish
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Whether you’re planning a long touring holiday in your own car, or hiring a car locally on a business trip or holiday, this guide will give you all the information you require. Whatever your destination in Europe, you’ll find everything need to prepare for your trip and to cope with the unfamiliar....