New book releases for June 2022. Jalopy Magazine selects the latest available books that we want to read.
Lancia Delta Integrale
The complete history of the Lancia Delta Integrale is covered in the new paperback release from Veloce.
One of the best and most well known rally cars, the Integrale was brilliant and was a desirable road car and now a desirable classic.
The book covers the story of the road cars and all of the special editions along with the motorsport history. Events, and the development of the factory cars with valuable information provided by Sergio Limone, the chief engineer, and the late Giorgio Pianta, the chief test driver, from Turin in Italy.
Available from Veloce and of course Amazon.
Paperback, 160 pages, 25 x 21 cm
ISBN: 9781787117808
UPC: 6-36847-01780-4
Lancia Gamma - Berlina & Coupe - The Story -1976 - 1984
Keeping with Lancia, the Gamma has a book to itself. Now what is a quite rare car, this stylish saloon and coupe was designed to be Lancia’s way into the executive car segment. It was styled by Pininfarina, was sophisticated and featured clever engineering. But the car was as total failure.
Somewhat forgotten as they aren’t a common sight the car has a reputation that still precedes it. For the first time the car has a book all to itself and features information found from period documents and interviewing former Lancia employees.
125 pages, 28 x 21 cm
ISBN-13: 979-8415575855
Book Reviews
Survival Of The Fastest
Believe it or not this story of a race team that bought faster and faster cars with money no object were finance by drug smuggling.
Straight out of an episode of Miami vice the story of how Randy Lanier became a massive 1980s sports star. Randy wanted to race the Indy 500, but it was far too expensive until he bought a speedboat and started smuggling weed from the Bahamas. Of course, he was caught, but the amount of money flowing through the team was there for all to see.
Hardcover, 336 pages,
ISBN-10: 0306826453
ISBN-13: 978-0306826450
Dimensions: 16 x 3.68 x 23.75 cm
Britain's Motorways
Did you know there are over 2,000 miles of motorway in England, Wales and Scotland? They aren’t often though about, unless negatively if you’re stuck on one. Historian Mark Chatterton hasdelved into the history the construction, routes and the inner working of Britains main motorways.
Maybe now is the time to appreciate them.
Paperback, 96 pages,
ISBN-10: 1398111163
ISBN-13: 978-1398111165
Making the Range Rover Legend: The 1971-72 British Trans-Americas Expedition
In 1971 a British Army team took some Range Rovers to cross the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego which included crossing the Darrian Gap.
Taking nearly 100 days to drive, and sometimes float the Range Rovers over the terrain through the jungle where there were no tracks. They made it to tell the story.
Paperback, 128 pages, 24 x 17 cm
ISBN-10: 1913870308
ISBN-13: 978-1913870300
