“Unlike buying a car, assembling a worthwhile collection of books takes years, if not decades...” Besides my 1968 Triumph Spitfire, which is the first car I ever bought and still own, I would have to say that my most prized possession is my automotive-book collection. Unlike buying a car, assembling a worthwhile collection of books takes years, if not decades, before you find and purchase all the books that you need, and want. Of course, such a collection never really stops growing, thanks to the world’s publishers that keep issuing new books month after month. Thankfully, most of the new automobile books that are being published today offer little in terms of new content, being little more than rehashes of the same rehashed information, so the growth rate has slowed…
