Guitar lovers, hot-rod fans, ZZ Top – there’s a lot of crossover between those groups, and if that includes you, you’ll love this book.
This expanded edition is written by Gibbons, one-third of the band ZZ Top, and is split into three sections: The Life, The Cars and The Guitars. Petrolheads will enjoy the middle section about Gibbons’ collection of custom-built hot rods. It can be a bit challenging to read for long periods, but is very entertaining.
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Bugatti Supercars: A Century of Genius
- Lance Cole (The Crowood Press, crowood.com)
- Price: £45
- Rating: 4.5 stars
The new Bugatti Tourbillon may be making the headlines, but the brand isn’t lacking in past glories. From its origins, through racing and its earlier period as a maker of ultra-exclusive beauties, this book is a very interesting read.
While this title doesn’t include anything on the newest model, it does a pretty good job filling in the earlier gaps up to the last Chirons and Veyrons. It’s laid out chronologically and some of the photos included are magnificent.
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Cars & Curves: A Tribute to 70 Years of Porsche
- Stefan Bogner, Ben Winter (Delius Klasing Verlag, delius-klasing.de)
- Price: £35
- Rating: 4 stars
This is more of a photobook than a great read. The prose – available in both English and German, so you can pick and choose – is brief, and often verging on the hyperbolic. Porsche owners generally don’t mind a bit of extra colour, however, and for many the quality of photography alone will be worth the price. It’s a shame quite a few images cross over two pages, though, because they lose some of their effect in the gutter. Don’t expect to focus solely on Porsche sports cars, either – there are plenty of photos of SUVs such as the Macan.
