Ford's Rear-Wheel-Drive Competition Escorts, Car by Car
Focusing on the transformation of the Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts, this book explores their journey from family vehicles to successful competition cars in rally and racing. It provides a detailed account of Ford's works cars, featuring meticulously selected color photographs of original and restored examples, highlighting their significance in automotive history and motorsport.
Here is the definitive history of one of Britain's most important automotive marques, not only the cars but Ferguson tractors and military aero engines too.
Describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the BMC Mini- Cooper/Mini-Cooper in the 1960s, providing a history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport.
A collectors guide for the Triumph TR
Detailed model-by-model descriptions, technical and restoration details, and invaluable reference data. Detailed photos and descriptions tell you what to look out for when buying. Includes a wealth of information from specs and production figures to competition achievements.
When Fiat entered rallying in 1970, its ultimate aim was to become World Rally Champion - and the 131 Abarth of 1976-1980 provided the machinery to make that possible.
This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the original Ford Escort, one of Europe‘s Landmark Rally Cars in the early 1970s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, how, and why it became so important to the sport. The Escort Mk1 delivered everything its predecessor, the Lotus-Cortina, had promised. Versatile, accessible, and competitive at all levels, it dominated international rallying throughout the 1970s, and became hugely popular with teams and spectators alike.
Peugeot designed, developed, campaigned and won with the first truly sophisticated four-wheel-drive Group B Car - the 205 Turbo 16. Detailing the cars, the influences, and the personalities behind a magnificent success story, this book is packed with illustrations, and technical data on this innovative car, and is a must for any rally fan.
This book describes the birth, development, and rallying car of the turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza in the 1990s and early 2000s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport.
This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the Toyota Celica GT-Four, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport.
Lancia Stratos describes the birth, development and rallying career of the Lancia Stratos, Europe’s very first purpose-built rally car, in the mid/late 1970s. It provides a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport, as well as telling the story of the team. The book is part of Graham Robson’s definitive “Rally Giants” series, published by Veloce.
BMW’s Bavarian blue and white propeller logo harks back to its early twentieth-century roots as an aircraft engine manufacturer. How this venerable company weathered two world wars, moved from aircraft to motorcycles and, finally, to the cars that would provide its greatest glory is the remarkable story recounted in this book. With unique access to BMW’s factories and archives, author Graham Robson gives readers an inside look at how the great German automaker works and how its methods have evolved over the decades. Visiting factories throughout Germany and in the United States he offers readers a rare, behind the scenes, nuts-and-bolts account of how BMW produces its famed models. Illustrated with rare photographs from BMW’s own archives, this book constitutes an unprecedented tour of the history and culture of one of the world’s great automakers.
Over 200 of the World's Greatest Automobiles
The Audi Quattro was the world's first successful four-wheel-drive rally car. It brought new standards to the sport, and inspired many others to copy it. This is the complete story.
The Escort RS Cosworth became Ford's most successful model since the legendary Escorts of the 1970s. The combination of Cosworth power, 4WD transmission, and an effective aerodynamic package made it a Rally Giant in all conditions, making this generation of Escorts the most effective rally car that Ford had produced at that time.
The complete history of BMC and a comprehensive directory of the marques and models that made up the whole.This book details the company's origins, its achievements and its legacy, and provides a close look at the many car models that were produced during its heyday.
A Technical Directory of the Most Magnificent Cars from 1900 to the Present Day
Like the car itself, New Mini has proved a hot property, selling more than 7,000 copies-and Practical Classicstermed the book excellent. So much has happened since three years ago that a new edition has become necessary, with coverage of the very latest diesel and cabriolet models. This expanded book, packed with even more information and photographs, is expected to become a hit among the 500,000 people who have now bought BMW's trendy baby.
The first century of British automobiles from veteran and vintage through to modern-day classic marques.
From the running of the 1932 RAC rally, mainly a social event, to the present day, when Rally GB is a high-speed endurance World Championship rally, this is the very first all-embracing history of an important part of British motorsport history. Descriptions of every event, opinions, results and images are brought together for the very first time.
The Ford Escort MkII, the RS1800, became Ford's most successful rally car, and is still winning historic events today. It brought new standards to the sport, inspiring many others to copy it. This books contains full details of every 'works' Escort MkII that went rallying, plus driver and personality profiles, and detailed car evolution.
Between 1957 and 1965 the six-cylinder-engined Austin Healey evolved into a formidable and increasingly specialised rally car. By any standards, it was the first of the `homologation specials' - a type made progressively stronger, faster, more versatile, and more suitable for the world's toughest international rallies. This book tells its story.
The complete story of the front-wheel-drive Saab 96 made the brand into a rally icon in the 1960s. Superstar driving from Erik Carlsson, his wife Pat Moss-Carlsson and – later – from Stig Blomqvist, all brought real publicity and admiration for a car that always lacked the sheer straight-line performance of its rivals. Saabs like this, however, never wanted for strength, or for amazing handling and traction, and they succeeded in events as diverse as the Monte Carlo, Britain's RAC rally, special stage events in every Scandinavian country, and the rough-and-tough Spa-Sofia-Liege Marathon. The big change came in 1967, when the 96 became the V4, looking almost the same as before, but with a new and more powerful four-stroke Ford-Germany V4 engine. Works cars continued to be competitive in carefully chosen events for many years, and it was only the arrival of much more specialised rivals that made them outdated. Saab, though, was not finished with rallying, as the V4's successors, the much larger and more powerful 99 and 99 Turbo types, proved. More than any other car of its era, the 96 and V4 models proved that front-wheel-drive allied to true superstar driving could produce victory where no-one expected it.
A major reference book detailing every model produced by the Rootes Group: Hillman, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam and Sunbeam-Talbot. Company history and full model-by-model details provide absorbing interest for the classic car enthusiast.
Author Graham Robson offers fascinating insight into this lost world of aviation wrecks and relics, illustrated throughout with his own full color period photographs.Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, is well known as the location of the US military’s massive aircraft storage and disposal site. Lesser known, perhaps, are the numerous aircraft salvage companies that became established around the perimeter, whose businesses were founded on the acquisition and disposal of airframes obtained from the military base.The locations in which these companies operated were, nominally, referred to as ‘the scrapyards’, though in reality they were much more than that. The various companies specialized in repurposing hundreds of former military aircraft, be that restoration back to airworthiness, salvaging for useful spare parts to support similar types still in commercial operation, or smelting the airframe carcasses back into aluminium ingots.In The Aircraft Salvage Around Davis-Monthan AFB – Volume 1 1980s , author Graham Robson offers a fascinating insight into this lost world of aviation wrecks and relics, illustrated throughout with his own full colour period photographs.
In this definitive history of the Rover company, Graham Robson traces the history of the iconic British car brand right back to the Starley family’s Coventry-made bicycles of the 1870s.
Book by Robson
New Edition - Over 700 Blue-Chip Automotive Investments, Domestic and Foreign!
Over 700 blue-chip automotive investments, domestic and foreign. Black and White photos throughout.
Written by Richard M. Langworth, Graham Robson, and the editors of Consumer guide.
Die komplette Entwicklungsgeschichte des HF 4WD! Als die spektakulären, aber kaum noch beherrschbaren Gruppe-B-Rallyeboliden im Mai 1986 verboten wurden, waren die Hersteller und Teams gezwungen, neue Gruppe-A-Fahrzeuge zu entwickeln. Um konkurrenzfähig zu sein, mussten die Wagen Allradantrieb besitzen und mindestens 300 PS leisten, um an das von der obersten Motorsportbehörde definierte Limit zu kommen. Lancia hatte das Glück, das der neue Delta HF 4WD gerade vorgestellt worden war und eine perfekte Basis für das neue Reglement bot. Das prächtig illustrierte Buch über das erfolgreichste Rallye-Fahrzeug aller Zeiten erzählt, wie sich der HF 4WD im Laufe der Jahre entwickelte - zuerst zum Integrale mit dem ursprünglichen Achtventil-Motor, dann zum Integrale 16 V und schließlich zum Integrale 16V Evo 1. Die kompakte und erstklassig bebilderte Chronik bietet einen Überblick über die Karriere des schier unschlagbaren Allradlers zum Top-Preis-Leistungsverhältnis. Dieses Buch ist das ultimative Referenzwerk für Integrale-Fans!
