Author: Graham Robso
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, mk1, escort, ford
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845840402
ISBN-13: 9781845840402

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. Written by a world renowned motoring historian and heavily illustrated this is a key work on this subject.

Author: Tony Pashley
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: cars, speedpro, racing, engined, motorcycle, build
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1845841239
ISBN-13: 9781845841232

If you are aspiring to build a racing car this could be the book that you’ve been waiting for! Tony Pashley revisits the path that he took in the Pashley Project articles in Race Tech magazine during the design and construction of two successful hillclimb cars. This time in great detail with a view to enabling the reader to carryout a similar exercise for themselves. Although hillclimb and sprint cars are the focal topic, a lot of the book is applicable to race cars in general. The cars under discussion in the book are powered by motor cycle engines which, in the smaller racing car class

Author: Adrian Dewey
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: cars, concept, design, illustrate
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1845842200
ISBN-13: 9781845842208

The automobile seems to be as popular now as it ever was. Posters of cars still adorn many a child’s bedroom wall, and school exercise books are full of doodles of cars. This book takes those notebook sketches and teaches you how to develop them into the car designs you see in magazines. Using simple to follow step-by-step drawings it guides you from pencil sketch to marker rendering, from doodle to highly visual computer generated artwork. Adrian Dewey has worked on designs as diverse as small sports cars to double-decker buses, modified motors to concept Formula 1 cars, using various t

Author: Des Hammill
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: speedpro, manual, performance, carburettor
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845840739
ISBN-13: 9781845840730

This book is for those people who wish to tune SU carburetors themselves, irrespective of how many carburetors there are on the engine or what type of engine it is. This book explains how to set up carburetors and choose needles for any application, and how to test the engine to make sure that the induction system is tuned for optimum performance.

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, cooper, mini
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845841832
ISBN-13: 9781845841836

This is a comprehensive study of the career of one type of rally car – the BMC Mini-Cooper/Mini-Cooper S. In the 1960s the Mini became famous as Britain’s most successful rally car. It combined superb handling, a tiny body shell, high-performance engines and the excellence of front-wheel-drive in an irresistible package. Not only this, but the works team included famous drivers like Paddy Hopkirk, Timo Makinen and Rauno Aaltonen.  The works Minis not only won the Monte Carlo three times – 1964, 1965 and 1967 – along with the European Rally Championship in 1965, but also won events all

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, rs1800, escort, ford
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845841409
ISBN-13: 9781845841409

Escort RS1800 (Escort Mk II) : This is a Rally Giant because it was consistently the fastest, the most successful and the most versatile car in the second half of the 1970s. Developed from the Mk I, it was a conventional front engine/rear drive machine, which rallied with 2-litre engines of up to 270bhp. Rally successes were legendary - British (RAC), Safari, Acropolis, Finland (1000 Lakes), Sweden, Portugal, Canada - and  more and more. They won 17 World Rallies between 1975 and 1981. RS1800s won the World Makes Championship in 1979, and were always close to victory, and always competitive.

Author: Graham Templeman
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: manual, speedpro, logging, data, car, competition
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 184584162X
ISBN-13: 9781845841621

At last. A practical handbook on how to choose and  operate datalogging equipment and get the full benefit from what it tells you. Aimed at the amateur competitor, it covers hardware and software and takes over where the manufacturers instructions run out. It shows how to understand what the data is telling you and how to use it to go faster. It covers standard information screens and shows you how to create your own charts and tables that will illuminate the performance of both the car, the driver and the team. On the way, it deals with systems management issues, how to get the quick and eas