The 1954 Hudson Italia

Hudson Motors’ Stylish Swansong

by Mark L. James

Bodied by Touring in Italy this model was primarily intended to gauge public reaction to styling ideas. It did receive positive customer reactions but just over two dozen ended up being built.

20 Years of GT3 Racing, the Story of the World’s Leading GT Sportscar Category

by Gary Watkins  

The history of motorsports is rife with racing series that didn’t last because they couldn’t adapt, or had too narrow a focus, or ran out of participants and money, or were too blatantly self-serving. GT3, now over 20 years old, seems to have all the right answers.

Games Without Frontiers: Volume 1, 1966–1974

Matra – Alpine – Ligier – Simca – Renault – Alpine

by Stuart Ager

You can deduce from the cover illustration that this will be one unusual story. This book goes into a lot of behind-the-scenes material—and will require two more volumes to button it all up.

Your Mom Races Rally: Motherhood, Motorsports and the Revolution of Fun

by Kelly Conroy

This is not a hardcore car book. It’s about the memoirist’s voyage of personal discovery that leads her to unexpectedly becoming a rally driver.

Aston Martin: The V8 Legacy

A Detailed History of the DBS, V8, Zagato and Lagonda Models, 1967–1990

by Matthew Vale

Those models did keep the company afloat and sort of solvent during trying times. This book is meant to be a tribute, an homage and fields many good reasons for appreciating the thinking behind them.

Getting into Racing, A Beginner’s Guide to Circuit Racing

by Pierre Martins

A practical beginner’s guide aimed at aspiring racers, track day enthusiasts, and anyone who has ever wondered what it really takes to get involved in motorsport: cost, time, politics, logistics. And risks.

Deadliest Decade: How Speed, Money, and Technology Transformed Auto Racing

by Preston Lerner

Can you guess which decade this book will be about? 1964 to 1973. But it really reaches farther. Bad things are allowed to happen because good things are expensive and inconvenient. Then critical mass is reached. It was ever thus.

Against All the Others: Porsche’s Racing History, Volume 2 – 1969

by Randy Leffingwell

This book takes us into the era of the mighty 917. Nothing about that car was simple and given its teething problems, success was almost a surprise—leading to absolute domination, leading to more restrictive technical regs, leading to … the end. But other Porsches soldiered on.

Ferrari Milestones 

by Roland Löwisch

Milestone cars, that’s exactly what this book covers, 43 of them, from as early as 1948 to as recent as 2025.

Life at Shutter Speed, Two Decades of Larry Chen Photography

by Larry Chen

Chen is the only automotive photographer to hold the title of Canon Explorer of Light. He’s probably shot five million frames and is a big mover in the influencer sphere. See why in this retrospective.

Andrea Moda Formula

The Legend of the Formula One Team Too Bad To Be True

by Ian Strathcarron

Did you follow F1 in 1991/92? Even if you did, this Italian team may not have carved out a slot in your memory. They started only one single race. They got so much wrong, the FIA banned the team. Was their fate inevitable?

CTX 500, Last Train to Cockfosters

by David Brodie

The cover of this memoir looks harmless enough. If the author’s name means anything to you, you know it won’t be.