Motor Vehicles

Engines always pace what an airplane can do: this is the history of their evolution; the people involved and their contributions to commercial aviation.

Benefit from the author's experience, with the facts you need to decide if a Triumph Spitfire or GT6 is for you. Learn how and where to buy one, and whether to restore or to buy a good example. Get advice on choosing the right model, perform key checks, and use the book's comprehensive inspection guide to evaluate a potential purchase.

This book examines the evolution of the popular Chevrolet Impala, from the late 1950s `specialty' vehicle to Chevrolet's best-selling, iconic model in North America. Includes full specifications, rarer performance models, industry facts and figures and optional equipment through detailed text, advertising images, and original photographs.

A book with playing sounds installed, giving young petrolheads a sense of how the great supercars of the past and present sounded.

Containing more than 800 photographs, Airliner Models chronicles the use of professionally made airliner models in the marketing of air travel since 1919. For model collectors, the airliner type, makers name, scale, approximate age and the materials used are detailed for each model illustrated.  A short history of significant model-making companies is covered.   With the onset of online bookings and the closure of airline offices and travel agents, the use of models is fast vanishing forever. The focus of this book is to preserve this fascinating era when models were a significant marketing tool. To ensure that these models, at least in photographic form, survive as a record for future generations,  Anthony Lawler  has spent eight years assembling the information and photographs to complete this book.

Since the original publication in 2005, a considerable amount of new material has been unearthed, both from official and private sources. This is all included in this revised and updated edition of the definitive history of these fascinating trains.

Tenth edition of this long-running guide includes 92 maps and km-by-km route guides covering the entire routes of the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Manchurian, Trans-Mongolian and Siberian BAM railways. Plus 32 city guides.

With a Haynes manual, you can do-it-yourself...from simple maintenance to basic repairs. Haynes writes every book based on a complete teardown of the bike, where we learn the best ways to do a job and that makes it quicker, easier and cheaper for you. Haynes books have clear instructions and hundreds of photographs that show each step. Whether you are a beginner or a pro, you can save big with a Haynes manual!   This manual features complete coverage for your Yamaha Trail Bikes built between 1981 and 2016, covering:Routine maintenanceTune-up proceduresEngine repairCooling and heatingAir conditioningFuel and exhaustEmissions controlIgnitionBrakesSuspension and steeringElectrical systems, andWring diagrams.

The Silk Road and Beyond covers the career, adventures and anecdotes of Ivor Whittall, one of the early pioneers of long distance trucking to the Middle East.

The full story of one of the UKs most influential aeronautical engineers, an individual who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters.

Xsara Picasso MPV models. Does NOT cover C3 or C4 Picasso ranges*Petrol: 1.6 litre (1587cc), 1.8 litre (1749cc) & 2.0 litre (1997cc). Turbo-Diesel: 1.6 litre (1560cc) & 2.0 litre (1997cc)

Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from the author's years of Mercedes-Benz ownership, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising car like a professional. Get the right car at the right price!

Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from Dr. Brett Johnson's years of real ownership experience, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a professional. Get the right car at the right price!

Rootes Cars of the 50s, 60s & 70s is the only full-colour comprehensive guide to all Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam, Singer & Talbot cars and vans, from 1950 until the end of production in the 1970s. With model-by-model descriptions and detailed technical information, this is an invaluable Rootes resource.

An updated and expanded edition of our hand-illustrated and accessible introduction to the world of bike repair! Through working at both Plan-B Bike Project and French Quarter Bicycles in New Orleans, our co-authors have gathered a wealth of experience to share with would-be bicycle mechanics. The first half of this book is a complete repair manual to get you started on choosing the right bike for you, riding that bike, and fixing it when it breaks down. The second half reprints all four issues of the Chainbreaker zine, whose originals were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.This is the best bicycle repair manual that we have, and the one that many of us here at Microcosm use to fix our own bikes. It's incredibly useful for fixing older bikes, and the illustrated instructions help you suss out how to fix a wide variety of issues whatever kind of bike you have, whether it's a beater or a vintage classic.

There was a time when a heavily weathered collector car or truck was considered a bit of an eyesore. In fact, if you brought one of these vehicles to a car show, more than likely you would receive grief for showing a car with faded paint and surface rust. But not anymore. The era of patina on vehicles has been fully embraced, and rightfully so. The genre is currently ripe with creation. Kevin Tetz of Paintucation(R) has delivered the first book ever on the many variables involved with patina. In step-by-step format, Kevin walks you through creating patina from existing paint, preserving *already there* patina, and painting patina on steel, plastic, and glass. Each process is unique and requires its own set of skills, procedures, and tools. With tens of millions of potential projects to consider, finding the right car or truck to patina shouldn't be a problem. And now with Patina: How to Create & Preserve you will have the perfect book to guide you through the patina process.

The name of Peter Gray will need little introduction to lovers of railways in the West Country. The compiler of several colour albums all of which are sought after and long out of print.

Each Haynes manual is written for the do-it-yourselfer and provides step-by-step instructions based on a complete disassembly of the vehicle.  This hands-on experience provides the reader with specific and detailed instructions for performing everything from basic maintenance and troubleshooting to a complete engine overhaul.  The models and model years covered in this title are as follows: Diesel: Volkswagen New Beetle 1.9L TDI 1998 - 2004 Gas: Volkswagen New Beetle 1.8L 1998 - 2010 Volkswagen New Beetle 2.0L 1998 - 2010 Exclusions: Does not include information specific to 2004 and later models with the 1.9L TDI-PD diesel engine This Haynes automotive repair manual includes 700+ photos and the following chapters:  Introduction Chapter 1: Tune-up and routine maintenance Chapter 2: Part A: Four-cylinder gasoline engines Chapter 2: Part B: Five-cylinder gasoline engines Chapter 2: Part C: Diesel engine Chapter 2: Part D: General engine overhaul procedures Chapter 3: Cooling, heating and air conditioning systems Chapter 4: Part A: Fuel and exhaust systems: gasoline engines Chapter 4: Part B: Fuel and exhaust systems: diesel engine Chapter 5: Engine electrical systems Chapter 6: Part A: Emissions control systems: gasoline engines Chapter 6: Part B: Emissions control systems: diesel engine Chapter 7: Part A: Manual transaxle Chapter 7: Part B: Automatic transaxle Chapter 8: Clutch and driveaxles Chapter 9: Brakes Chapter 10: Suspension and steering systems Chapter 11: Body Chapter 12: Chassis electrical system Wiring diagrams

Petrol 1.8 & 2.0 litre:, VW Golf 1993-98, VW GTI (4-cyclinder engine) 1993-98, VW Jetta 1993-98, VW Cabrio 1995-2002, Diesel 1.9 litre:, VW Golf 1993-98, VW GTI 1993-98, VW Jetta 1993-98, VW Cabrio 1995-2002 Does not include information specific to models with the 2.8L VR6 engine Complete coverage for your VW Golf, GTI, Jetta & Cabrio with 1.8L & 2.0L gasoline engines and 1.9L diesel engine, not including information specific to models with the 2.8L VR6 engine (see years covered):, -- Routine maintenance, -- Tune-up procedures, -- Engine repair, -- Cooling and heating, -- Air conditioning, -- Fuel and exhaust, -- Emissions control, -- Ignition, -- Brakes, -- Suspension and steering, -- Electrical systems, -- Wiring diagrams

Stunning illustrations to colour in, charting the history and heritage of P&O

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier–nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation. After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one’s enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in California’s Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilots, including Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welch, who risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called “the demon.” Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly revealed that the “barrier” had been broken two months later, after the story was leaked to the press. The full truth has never been fully revealed—until now. Chasing the Demon, from decorated fighter pilot and acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton, tells, for the first time, the extraordinary true story of mankind’s quest for Mach 1. Here, of course, is twenty-four-year-old Captain Chuck Yeager, who made history flying the futuristic Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. Officially Yeager was the first to achieve supersonic flight, but drawing on new interviews with survivors of the program, including Yeager’s former commander, as well as declassified files, Hampton presents evidence that a fellow American—George Welch, a daring fighter pilot who shot down a remarkable sixteen enemy aircraft during the Pacific War—met the demon first, though he was not favored to wear the laurels, as he was now a civilian test pilot and was not flying the Bell X-1.Chasing the Demon sets the race between Yeager and Welch in the context of aviation history, so that the reader can learn and appreciate their accomplishments as never before.

This re-print of the 1926 second edition of the Motorcyclist Library 'Book of the BSA' was selected as being an important edition as it includes information that is appropriate to many of the BSA models that were in production as far back as 1914.

To extract maximum performance, an engine needs an efficient, well-designed, and properly tuned exhaust system. In fact, the exhaust system's design, components, and materials have a large impact on the overall performance of the engine. Engine builders and car owners need to carefully consider the exhaust layout, select the parts, and fabricate the exhaust system that delivers the best performance for car and particular application. <p>Master engine builder and award-winning writer Mike Mavrigian explains exhaust system principles, function, and components in clear and concise language. He then details how to design, fabricate, and fit exhaust systems to classic street cars as well as for special and racing applications. Air/exhaust-gas flow dynamics and exhaust system design are explained.  Cam duration and overlap are also analyzed to determine how an engine breathes in air/fuel, as the exhaust must efficiently manage this burned mixture. Pipe bending is a science as well as art and you're shown how to effectively crush and mandrel bend exhaust pipe to fit your header/manifold and chassis combination. Header tube diameter and length is taken into account, as well as the most efficient catalytic converters and resonators for achieving your performance goals. In addition, Mavrigian covers the special exhaust system requirements for supercharged and turbocharged systems. <p>When building a high-performance engine, you need a high-performance exhaust system that's tuned and fitted to that engine so you can realize maximum performance. This comprehensive book is your guide to achieving ultimate exhaust system performance. It shows you how to fabricate a system for custom applications and to fit the correct prefabricated system to your car. No other book on the market is solely dedicated to fabricating and fitting an exhaust system in high-performance applications. 

Every hot rod needs a good chassis, whether it's a traditional Model T track roadster, a Pro/Street fat-fendered Chevy, or something in between. "In How to Build Hot Rod Chassis," author Timothy Remus works with the pros at the SO-CAL Speed Shop, and other builders, to show you how to build a chassis that'll do the job right.Need to know what kind of spring to use? Don't know how to build a frame that's straight and square? This book shows you how, with detailed step-by-step how-to photo sequences. Chapters include information on: Planning your hot rod chassis. Building a frame. Front suspensions. Rear suspensions. Shocks and springs. Brakes. Hardware and plumbing. Drivetrain. Wheels and tires. There's also a detailed source guide that will help you find the parts you need, plus interviews with some of the country's top hot rod builders and stylists to lend valuable insight into hot rod building techniques and strategies.

Howling down the tunnels comes a new collection showcasing the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks, many of which are republished here for the first time since their original departure.

Each Haynes manual is written for the do-it-yourselfer and provides step-by-step instructions based on a complete disassembly of the vehicle. This hands-on experience provides the reader with specific and detailed instructions for performing everything from basic maintenance and troubleshooting to a complete engine overhaul. This Haynes automotive repair manual includes 700+ photos and essential information for: - Routine maintenance - Tune-up procedures - Engine repair - Cooling and heating - Air conditioning - Fuel and exhaust - Emissions control - Ignition - Brakes - Suspension and steering - Electrical systems - Wiring diagrams