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      05-19-2018, 02:43 AM   #1
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Great Car Books

lets list some great car books:

here's my entry: Go Like Hell

https://www.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-...6715762&sr=8-2

its about ford v. ferrari in 1966 Le Mans. fun read.
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lets list some great car books:

here's my entry: Go Like Hell

https://www.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-...6715762&sr=8-2

its about ford v. ferrari in 1966 Le Mans. fun read.

Well, that's interesting! I will look into the content. Thanks.
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Reading this Enzo Ferrari bio now. It’s a nice book. Could be a best car book.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/2...dal-monte.html

So far the greatest car book I’ve read...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01K1...BFL&ref=plSrch

The softback version is what I have / guess out of print.

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A few:

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (In my Top 10 of any book)
- Cannonball! - Brock Yates
- Porsche: Origin of the Species - Karl Ludvigsen
- Drive On! A Social History of the Motorcar - L.J. Setright (I think)
- Giorgetto Giugiaro: The Genius of Design (forget the author)

And one I'm looking forward to reading after I get through a couple of others:
- The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
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thanks, checking those out now!

if you have that Porsche book, its worth a lot:
https://www.amazon.com/Porsche-Origi...of+the+Species
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thanks, checking those out now!

if you have that Porsche book, its worth a lot:
https://www.amazon.com/Porsche-Origi...of+the+Species
Boy, I wish. A lawyer pal of mine (He drives an '80 Targa SC as his DD most days) let me borrow his copy soon after it came out a few years back. There's some deep archival stuff in it ... and the Jerry Seinfeld foreword is classic and surprisingly well thought out. That author's written a few other Porsche-related books; one of those might be a good stand-in.

I do have three of the other four, however. I lent my copy of Drive On! to someone a number of years ago; never got it back ...
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Coffee table kinda books or ones you actually read?
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