Best of
Cars

1986

Ford: The Men and the Machine


Robert Lacey - 1986
    Now Robert Lacey has captured in one volume the public achievements and the private tragedies, the feuds, affairs, and personalities that make up this epic tale.Ford is above all the story of a handful of powerful individuals whose ambitions have helped shape modern American society:Henry Ford I, the founder, one of history's great figures, whose legendary achievements - the Model T, the moving assembly line, the Five Dollar Day, the Peace Ship - and down-home folk wisdom are recounted in school civics courses. Here for the first time Lacey reveals the extraordinarily complex and contradictory man behind the public icon Henry Ford was at once a dedicated pacifist and a war profiteer; a champion of the rights of minorities and a virulent anti-Semite; a dedicated family man who supported a mistress and an illegitimate son; a loving father who hounded and bullied his only legitimate son intoan early grave.

Mr. Little's Noisy Car


Richard Fowler - 1986
    Help him discover what is wrong by lifting the flaps and finding the surprises hiding inside.

Dodge Caravan Plymouth Voyager & Chrysler Town & Country Mini-Vans 1984 Thru 1995 (Haynes Repair Manuals)


Curt Choate - 1986
    HAYNES ENGINE SERVICE MANUAL -- Using A Haynes Manual Is Like Having A Mechanic In Every Book, Each Manual Is Written And Photographed From The Hands-On Experience Gained By A Complete Teardown And Rebuild Of The Engine, Includes Procedures For Everything From Routine Maintenance To Complete Engine Overhaul

Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles: From Fluid Mechanics to Vehicle Engineering


Wolf-Heinrich Hucho - 1986
    Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles covers the fundamental principles that influence vehicle performance, handling, safety and comfort.

Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway


Phil Patton - 1986
    

Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession


Sam Moses - 1986
    Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and into the pit of obsession. From small-time races to glittery grands prix, it lays bare the greed, lust, and desperation of every driver for time behind the wheel and a faster car. It explains the perfectionism behind taking a turn at the limit and describes the intoxicating thrill of stealing down the Daytona backstraight at nearly two hundred miles an hour. The core of Moses's story takes place in the heartland of stock car racing, there he finds a spot on a team in Ether, North Carolina. The team's owner is a tough Louisiana oil man, its crew chief a lanky, laconic Texan, and its number-one driver a hairy-chested leadfoot who learned fast driving on backwoods Georgia roads, delivering beauty supplies in his Mustang. Crashes echo throughout the tale that follows, five of them the author's own.