We all know Father’s Day was invented to force kids to panic to buy gifts that reveal their confusing, unexamined feelings about, well, just about everything. This year, instead of another platinum-plated bowler ball, a brogued leather edger holster, a cashmere onesie or a reclaimed barn wood wallet, why not gift daddy something basic and sure to please? A book! More precisely, a book on cars. We’re not saying all dads love cars or reading. We are just saying that if you read carefully Car and driver dot com, there is a scientifically proven probability that a member of your family has helped you develop your affection for cars and reading. And since Mother’s Day has already passed, you should take the opportunity to celebrate. (It’s always perfectly okay to send mom a few of these books as a belated thank you.) The books below are all wonderful examples of how to make cars look compelling on the page. As a bonus, if you gift one to your dad, you can always request to borrow the copy (or download) once he’s finished. So like all the best gifts, this is a gift for yourself too!
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Bond Cars: The Definitive Story
No fictional superspy has combined longevity and automotive affection more consistently than 007. This beautifully illustrated book, written by acclaimed automotive writer and author Jason Barlow, explores this connection in exciting detail, analyzing every car that Bond has never driven to the screen. With direct access to the Bond archives and Bond vehicle supervisors, it will leave you shaken and restless.
2
Traveling Black: a story of race and resistance
Author and professor Mia Bay approaches the gruesome history of American racism after the Civil War through the lens of the transportation industry. In this highly researched book, Bay describes the ways in which racial segregation has corrupted each new category of public transport – trains, buses, cars, planes – as well as how transport has become a place of resistance and the rights movement. civic.
3
Lane Motor Museum: a pastime gone wild
lanemotormuseum.org
$ 44.99
The Lane Motor Museum in Nashville is the brainchild of automotive enthusiast of the highest caliber, Jeff Lane. Jeff’s collection epitomizes the bizarre glory of motorized transport, with microcars, amphicars, gyrocars, propeller cars and more. With a featured feature by Jay Leno and a text by automotive historian Ken Gross, this book will whet your appetite for visiting The way.
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Corvette Stingray: the mid-engine revolution
The eighth-generation Corvette ultimately followed a plan that had been in the works almost since the creation of Chevrolet’s “Plastic Fantastic” sports car: to place the engine behind the passenger compartment. This book, created in cooperation with Chevrolet, tells that story in remarkable detail. (Full disclosure: your author wrote the design sections.)
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Don “Le Serpent” Prudhomme: My life beyond the 1320s
Car and driver Editor-in-chief Elana Scherr spent a year chatting with drag racing legend Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, sparking stories and revelations about his remarkable life and career. This charming book brings these stories together and distils into one airy and fun-to-read tome that speaks, deep down, of the soul of racing.
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Rolls-Royce cars
Essayist Simon Van Booy and automotive writer Harvey Briggs explore behind the scenes and the archives of one of the world’s most prestigious automakers. There, they discover the obsessive attention to craftsmanship and the constant adaptations of new technologies, which have kept Rolls-Royce at the top of the automotive pyramid for 115 years.
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Carchitecture: Houses with horses
architecture
lannoopublishers.com
€ 39.99
The links between automotive and residential design are not always obvious, but they are so varied and deep that architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Gio Ponti have all designed cars. This richly photographed monograph, by Belgian lifestyle journalist Thijs Demeulemeester, pairs remarkable buildings with remarkable cars, with essays that explore their fascinating overlap.
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Madhouse at the end of the earth
Random house
penguinrandomhouse.com
$ 30.00
This book is not about cars. But it focuses on an earlier means of adventure and exploration: boat travel and the story of a massively failed 19th-century expedition to the South Pole. Journalist and editor Julian Sancton tells the story in a joyful and exciting way, but without sparing the horror: seasickness, darkness, cold, madness, feline killer, brawl, scurvy, penguin eater.
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