Stinkwheel Publishing

This new book traces the history of the FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) company from foundation in 1899, when a group of well-to-do young men decided to found one of the first Italian motorcar manufacturers in Turin, having watched imported French cars putter around and realising their country had no equivalent industry. One of the founders, Giovanni Agnelli, addressed a… Read more →

Stinkwheel Publishing – what we do. I have always believed there is a need in the “classic car” book-publishing world for reasonably-priced, deeply-researched, historically-interesting, enjoyably well-written and illustrated works on the more obscure marques, books which mainstream publishers tend to avoid. I often include collateral historical information of the period such as important social, economic and political factors (and wars,… Read more →

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I have revised and amended the text of The Wilfred Saga, first published in 2015, it has now been reprinted so the second edition book is now on sale again from our online shop. Read more →

This new book covers the history of the Panhard & Levassor company from the very beginning as Périn, Panhard & Cie., a maker of woodworking machinery in the 1870s. By the mid-1880s Panhard & Levassor were making Daimler internal-combustion engines under licence and from there it was but a short step to making complete “motor-cars”, the first commercially-sold Panhard &… Read more →

  The reprinted second volume of the Hispano-Suiza and Pegaso books will be available from the Stinkwheel Publishing shop as of December 13th.  The book covers the career of Catalan engineer Wifredo Ricart and his early designs and creations of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain- (Ricart y Peréz 1922-26), S.A. Automóviles Ricart (1926-28) and Ricart España (1928-30). Ricart then… Read more →

The BMC ADO 16 (Austin Drawing Office 16) Morris 1100 car was revealed to the international motoring press on 15th August 1962, a larger and worthy companion to the BMC Mini which had been launched in 1959 to worldwide acclaim. Both designs were the work of Alec Issigonis and featured transverse engines with the gearbox in the sump, driving the… Read more →

This is the first volume of two and principally covers Hispano-Suiza from 1904 to 1939 from the perspective of Barcelona rather than Bois-Colombes in France. I have used mainly Spanish-language sources and have written about Hispano-Suiza cars, aero-engines, military vehicles, trucks and buses, the satellite Guadalajara factory and its products, racing cars and competition successes. The evolution of the French Bois-Colombes… Read more →