Classic Car Books - History and Models (2/2)

Classic Car Gallery - A Journey Through Motoring History

Presents a stunning collection of photographs of old cars of all marques and types captured in many locations. Across Allards to Bugattis, Citroëns DKWs, Porsches, Saabs, Triumphs, Voisins, VWs, and a pot-pourri of well-known classics, the author has journeyed far and wide to create a wonderful diary of classic car moments amid the great enthusiasm for nostalgia on wheels.
A mix of cars, people, portraits, action and atmosphere all blend in to a colourful journey across the classic car world in a diverse blend of marques and eras.

250 colour and black and white images populate an odyssey across a landscape of cars in an interesting format that pitches multi-million pound cars alongside more humble names. Seen on the move and static, Lance Cole's photographs capture the essence of metal sculpture, light falling upon paint and form, and the design hallmarks of old cars prior to the age of digital design authoritarianism when so many cars look similar.

If you love old metal, patina, paint, leather, and enthusiasm, all captured across vintage, veteran, classic and modern classic metal, then the Classic Car Gallery is a rare memento of the cars of yesteryear seen in the celebration of their today.

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Voitures de prestige de collection

Soft mechanics, bourgeois interiors, luxurious bodies, sleek or extravagant lines: since the beginning of the automobile, the world of the prestige car has marked the imagination of everyone by arousing respect and admiration.
This book reveals through the pages the behind the scenes of the creation of the great icons of the automobile that have become so popular on the collector's market. Richly documented, it offers a wealth of anecdotes and historical and technical information on these models that make collectors dream and sometimes remain affordable to the most modest of them.

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L’Art des grandes classiques

Great classics, pre-war vintage cars - from such legendary brands as Packard, Duesenberg, Stutz, Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz, Cord and others. Cars reaching seven-figure prices, worth millions of dollars, which drive buyers crazy at auctions around the world and attract crowds to the most prestigious concours d'elegance. The most beautiful of these machines are brought together in this book: "The Art of Great Classics".

Enhanced by Peter Harholdt's stunning studio photography and authoritative texts by automotive historian Peter Bodensteiner, this book is as much a work of art as the automobiles it features.

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Joyaux automobiles des maharadjahs

In 1898, a European company imported three "horseless carriages" to British India, which found buyers in some of the country's princely states.
This event marked the beginning of the Maharajas' great love affair with automobiles. The arrival of these cars completely changed the lifestyle of Indian royalty, triggering a devouring passion that lasted for decades.

Recognized today as an integral part of the fascinating history of the automobile, only a few hundred have survived among the thousands of these magnificent, sometimes devilishly exotic cars that once belonged to the five hundred or so wealthy Indian princes of the first half of the 20th century.
Some of them are abroad with collectors or exhibited in museums in Europe or America, others are in the hands of Indian collectors, and still others among the most remarkable are still the property of declining Indian princely families, vestiges of a prestigious past.
This book tells the stories of the most extraordinary of them - some 70 of the most beautiful and rare cars that can still be found.

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