Find the world's best transportation books in our carefully curated selection. From helpful how-to manuals to gorgeous coffee table books, these are the best books for enthusiasts, produced by the world's best photographers and writers.
Behind the wheel of his classic 1939 Ford Woodie, Tom Cotter trolls the back streets and neighborhoods of Detroit looking for lost automotive gems accompanied by photographer Michael Alan Ross.
In Speed Secrets: The Lost Art of High-Performance Driving, Ross Bentley explains in plain language how you can become an even better performance-oriented driver.
Motorbooks Founded in 1965, Motorbooks was acquired by Quarto in late 2007 and is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2015. Motorbooks is among the world's leading transportation publishers, offering books created by motoring's top photographers and writers, many created with major partners like Harley-Davidson, Chevrolet, Ford and Chrysler and magazines like Hot Rod and Cycle World.
Contact Info
Motorbooks 401 Second Avenue North Suite 310 Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA Tel: +1 612 344 8100 Fax: +1 612 344 8691
Publishing: Zack Miller, Publisher zack.miller@quarto.com Darwin Holmstrom, Senior Acquisitions Editor darwin.holmstrom@quarto.comSales: Nichole Schiele, Manager Special Market Sales nichole.schiele@quarto.com Marketing: Mallory Hayes, Marketing Manager mallory.hayes@quarto.com
Foreign Rights: If you are interested in publishing our titles in Europe, please contact: Karine Marko Group Rights Director karine.marko@quarto.com If you are interested in publishing our titles anywhere else in the world, please contact: Kate Essam Senior Manager, Quarto Foreign Rights Operations kate.essam@quarto.com
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Motorbooks History It’s only fitting that our story begins in a garage. The year was 1965, and North America was in dire need of quality car, motorcycle, and racing books. Luckily for gearheads, a transplanted Englishman and lifelong car guy named Thomas Warth took it upon himself to feed the need. From the stalls of his humble Minneapolis, Minnesota, garage, Warth launched a modest automotive book mail-order business selling transportation tomes, many of them imported from England. Thus was born Classic Motorbooks. In 1973, Classic Motorbooks began publishing its own books, which it made available alongside those from leading transportation publishers around the world. This move put Motorbooks in the driver’s seat, allowing it to define the best books for enthusiasts and then engage the motoring world’s best photographers and writers to create them—an approach that continues to this day. Besides our award-winning writers and shooters, we also partner with some of the biggest names in the business, like Harley-Davidson, Chevrolet, Ford, Hot Rod and Cycle World magazines, Dodge, and SRT—all to give us access to the best stories and the coolest photography. Alongside its own titles, Motorbooks continues to offer the best books from the other premier transportation publishers, fine-tuned exclusively for the enthusiast by gearheads who are just as obsessed as you are. For 50 years, Motorbooks has embraced the gearhead life. If it has wheels, we dig it. Wrench, Race, Ride, Roll, Read: that’s our mantra. Now go burn some rubber. Sites We DigIt's hard for a company to publish books for almost 50 years without making a few friends. Whether these links lead to people we've worked with, people we'd like to work with, or simply blogs our staff members love to read, we recommend you check out the list below for some of our favorite sites.
Become a Motorbooks Author There was an old Triumph ad slogan that read, "We eat, sleep, ride, talk, breathe, dream, live and love motorcycles!" Does that sum up your relationship with cars, motorcycles, racing or any other subject Motorbooks publishes? If so, and if you're a writer with an interesting book idea, we'd like to hear from you. Please follow the directions in our submission guidelines prior to submitting your proposal.
