Автомобили и ПДД

Discover new and unheard-of facts about Hollywood’s coolest car guy: Steve McQueen!<p>Steve McQueen touched the world through his larger-than-life onscreen persona portraying characters that were flawed and realistic. He played his roles to perfection due to his own imperfections and the bitter realism of his early life. As he once said, he had seemingly lived an entire lifetime before his 18th birthday, all of which shines through in his signature blue-eyed icy stares.<p>His legacy...

Brain Haulage was formed by Charles Edward Brain in 1950 and played a major role in the container revolution in the UK, completely changing the way goods were transported over the world. Peter Sumpter was a driver with Brain Haulage until it closed in 1992 and is an unofficial archivist of the brand, having taken hundreds of photographs and chronicling his adventures in a diary for over 20 years. Brain Haulage Ltd tells the history of Brain and the container revolution as well as the story of...

When the Pontiac GTO debuted in the fall of 1963, few people could have predicted that the landscape of the performance car would be changed forever. With the new GTO, a genre of automobiles was born that combined image, character, and «muscle.» 515,797 GTOs rolled off assembly lines from 1963 through 1974; it’s undeniable just how influential these cars were.</p><p>What Pontiac couldn&apos;t have predicted was just how collectible the GTOs would be decades later. Author Peter...

By the time the 1969 model year rolled around, it was well established that muscle cars were fast and plentiful. Every manufacturer had at least one corner of the showroom where the «go fast» guys could congregate and discuss the merits and time slips of the latest performance offerings. Competition being what it was, the manufacturers were looking for ways to entice potential buyers to choose their product over ever-increasing offerings from the competition. Some manufacturers tried to...

True accounts of one man’s long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of the first pioneers in long-distance trucking to the Middle East, Ivor Whittall. From traveling overseas to Kuwait, driving the desert trek between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and surviving the infamously dangerous (and sometimes deadly) Tahir Pass in Eastern Turkey that has claimed the lives of truckers with its haphazard landslides and avalanches and tricky...

A must for all ERF fans, this is the third and final installment in The Lorries of Arabia series. While the first book paid tribute to ERF’s world-class long-haulers in the Middle East and those who drove them and the second book went on to explore the fortunes of this legendary machine, this final volume is a continued narration of an unfolding history in the 1970s and 1980s of a premium tractive unit model. With new findings, new details, new insights, and new pictures, readers of the first...

Erdgas, Flüssiggas, Biodiesel, Pflanzenöl, Ethanol, Wasserstoff, Strom – bei jedem dieser so genannten Alternativkraftstoffe gibt es ein Für und Wider. Die Auswahl, welche Antriebstechnik im jeweiligen Fall die richtige ist, fällt vielen Autofahrern schwer. Deswegen gibt es jetzt diesen Ratgeber. Mit Hilfe dieses Buches kann jeder Fahrzeughalter selbst entscheiden, womit er – oder sie – am besten fährt. In diesem Buch werden alle heute ernsthaft in Frage kommenden Alternativkraftstoffe...

Книга – юридический помощник для каждого автолюбителя. Законы, правила и ГОСТы даны простым языком с реальными примерами из жизни. Инструкции помогут отстоять свою правоту в разговоре с инспектором ДПС, а если проблемы все же возникнут, можно будет спасительные формулировки из книги переписывать прямо в протоколы. Проблемы, с которыми вы теперь легко справитесь: • Вас засекли автоматические камеры: основания и процедура подачи жалобы; • Вы проехали на красный свет: что делать; • Алкотестер...

В книге описан опыт автора путешествий по России в режимеSmartТУРИЗМ, позволяющем без проблем, не бросая работу, в выходныедни посетить любой город страны. Кратко рассказана история города, приведены его достопримечательности.

Да, в книге есть и гонки, и технические данные и статистика всего сезона Формулы 1 за 2001 год, но так же здесь есть место юмору, скандалам, дракам, диалогам, взятым из реальной жизни гонщиков и их окружения, романтике и, конечно же, любви! Куда без любви, в наше время?!

В книге описан опыт автора путешествий по России в режиме SmartТУРИЗМ, позволяющем без проблем, не бросая работу, в выходные дни посетить любой город страны. Кратко рассказана история города, приведены его достопримечательности.