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> Your favorate car book, not info, where talking like novels
Andyrew
post Jan 21 2004, 09:18 PM
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Alright, I dont think this has been done, and im sure some of you guys have some good light and heavy reading car books out there that you love reading over and over.. What is your favorate car book? No the history of Porsche doesnt count, No it cant have pictures in it, The secret to solo racing is not what I mean. I'll put mine down.

The Car (ironic..)
By Gary Paulsen

Bout a kid who's parents separate, and his dad hates him, but his dad got a kit car as part of a trade but never built it. so the kid builds this car and then goes out to explore the country, pretty cool book.


What about you???

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post Jan 21 2004, 09:58 PM
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Do you guys even read? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Jan 21 2004, 10:01 PM
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post Jan 21 2004, 10:04 PM
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Is that the extent of your reading (sorry, I was looking for actual books, like fictional, not infobooks)?

Here's a little about The Car..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0440219183...416#reader-page

Andrew

anyone? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Am I going to have to go to the PP 911 board???
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post Jan 21 2004, 10:13 PM
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I read everything I can get my hands on. I have a BA in Eng. Its hard to pick one, but Pat Conroy writes very well. P wise I'm reading Excellence was Expected. Very Interesting and inspiring. Have to say the Bible too (no I'm not a bible thumper). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Jan 21 2004, 10:32 PM
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Well if its hard to pick one, then write the one's that your contemplaing. Im trying to find car books to fill my shelf..

Maybe I should change the title to List your favorate car books...

Now Im not saying that I dont like reading the bible, but I didnt know that the bible was a car book.. Im talking books with CARS... Sorry if I got you confused

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post Jan 21 2004, 10:37 PM
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The way some people drive - it might not be a bad idea. Read Excellence was Expected. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jan 21 2004, 10:39 PM
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Isnt it a history book? Although I agree with you on the driving... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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post Jan 21 2004, 10:47 PM
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"Before We Were Old" by Sir Robert Chummingham Fortely Nerminson, Duke of Westfordton Chessney.

It's about a teenage lesbian vampire mechanic, who stalks William Shatner, in an aubergine 911.


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post Jan 21 2004, 10:50 PM
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Lol, oh ya, Man I cant wait till I get that from amazon!! My mom will love reading it with me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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post Jan 21 2004, 11:08 PM
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Is your mom a trekkie?

Shatner fans! All of yas!


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post Jan 21 2004, 11:34 PM
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No, she aint no trekkie.. I guess im missing something..

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post Jan 22 2004, 04:17 AM
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Odd......I'm an avid reader, but I can't think of a memorable novel about cars.

But why a novel? The real histories are so much more interesting. I just reread (something I seldom do with a novel) Pete Lyon's "Can Am" .....great stuff.....with lotso pictures so's I didn't have to move my lips.
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post Jan 22 2004, 04:49 AM
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It's not a car book but "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is a classic.
I enjoyed it. A road trip on an old BMW bike is a lot like one in a teener. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)

I got "Montezuma's Ferrari" for Christmas, but I haven't read it yet.
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post Jan 22 2004, 05:27 AM
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After composing notes, entering recorded statement outlines, and reading abreviated notes screens all day. I take a little time to read more stuff here. That's about all the idle time I can spend in one day. I try to go out in the shop lately and work on the car. Who has more time than that? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Jan 22 2004, 06:40 AM
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i'm doing a lot of 911 research so that's the centerpiece of what's currently relevant. however, if i had to pick only one "car book" it'd be without question Mark Donohue's "The Unfair Advantage."

for all-round technical basis, "Race Car Engineering and Dynamics" by Paul van Valkenburgh, the guy who ghost-wrote Donohue's book, and - of course - everything written by Carroll Smith taken together as a "body of work" on how to design, build, and prepare a racing car.

although i don't take it off the shelf very often, one of my most prized books is "100 Years of Porsche - mirrored in contemporary history" countersigned by Dr Porsche.
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post Jan 22 2004, 08:02 AM
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Vegas, I read a fair number of novels and various history topics, anything from what are considered good books to pulp. I say this just to establish a claim that I can read. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Last year I tried once again to read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" which I have had for years. 2/3rds of the way through I quit. I rarely do not finish a book, but I just couldn't continue. I know a lot of people like it, but I guess it's not for me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I did leave a book marker at my stopping point, so maybe I'll try again.

JP, I'm with you on the Pete Lyons Can-Am history. Also his Chaparral history. And related, I love the Dave Friedman photo books Chaparral, McLaren, Lola, Grand Sport Corvette and all of his Ford and Cobra books. Lots of pretty pictures. I recently read that Friedman has a monster Corvette racing book coming out.

ArtechnikA, I read "The Unfair Advantage" last spring while on a beach vacation. I really enjoyed it. What a shame Mark Donohue was killed. Grand Prix, and racing drivers in general, were so much more vulnerable to fatal accidents in his day.

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post Jan 22 2004, 08:13 AM
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Miles,

Could you loan me your copy of "Before We Were Old"? I can't seem to find it at the public library. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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post Jan 22 2004, 08:13 AM
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Here's one, The Distance to the Moon by James Morgan.

It's a story of a writer trying to do research about America and its love of the car but really it's about a guy on a road trip in a borrowed Porsche Boxter.

Either you will love it or hate it.


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post Jan 22 2004, 08:23 AM
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this goes way back. a book titled "Hot Rod". boy has car and no mech abilities. meets tool wench. they build a car. both are in car. they are racing. something breaks and they go off the road into a river. they die. the end. cool when you are in the 6th grade. the author wrote a number of teen angst/car related novels.

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