Classic Car Museum Guide (Hardback)
Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Machinery
Imprint: Pen & Sword Transport
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 100 colour & black and white
ISBN: 9781526735874
Published: 3rd August 2020
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A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history.
Written by a long-established motoring writer with wide experience of driving and the fettling of old cars all over the world.
This new motor museum companion includes: British motoring and transport museums guide via descriptions and photographs. 90 British museums described.
Comprehensive world motor museum listing: over 350 global museums cited. Out-takes from visits to selected overseas museums. Provides a glossary of old-car/motorcycle terms and types to assist the museum visitor and old car enthusiast. Discusses the museum culture and its new age.
Visits to many museums by the author were self-funded: he paid his own way.
The perfect companion for a petrol heads road trip. Find a car museum in this lovely guide, and you’ll have a very good idea of what you’re going to see. There’s also some great general advice to make the most of a visit to any museum.
Vintage Airfix
A practical guide to classic car museums for vintage engine lovers.
Miniaturas JM
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Review by Roger Backhouse
Society of Model and Experimental Engineers
Written by a true enthusiast for enthusiasts... Although I am no car fan I enjoyed this book. To be recommended.
Lance Cole is a leading motoring and aviation writer, of which this book is a fine example of his work. The book contains firstly, advice on visiting museums and then goes onto list the many places up and down the UK to visit as a whole. Each museum is listed with address, telephone and a brief description of what to expect. Also included in the book are breakdowns of types of vehicle along with photographs both in colour and black and white, a thoroughly good guide and well worth the money in my opinion!
The International Plastic Modellers’ Society, Keighley
An excellent guide to some 90 British museums and a further 390 worldwide, with descriptions and photographs, including a glossary of old car / motorcycle terms.
West Somerset Railway Association
Ideally this work is aimed at those new to automative history.
Society of Automotive Historians, 103 Winter 2020
About Lance Cole
Lance Cole has been a motoring and aviation writer and PR for over 30 years. He is also an internationally published photographer, illustrator and designer. The author of over 20 books, he has a parallel career as a news correspondent and TV camera-journalist. But it is old cars and their design and driving that fascinates him. He has driven Saabs all over the world and contributed to Saab design when he was a young design student. Lance wrote Erik Carlsson’s obituary for the Daily Telegraph.
Lance currently lives in England but yearns for a return to the outback of Australia where old cars rule.