Autobooks Aerobooks Booksigning

Almost every Saturday Autobooks-Aerobooks in Burbank has a booksigning. We try to keep track of the events, so please check back to see what's on the agenda!

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 - CARSTROLOGY
11:00 – 3:00
Shahe Koulloukian

When Astrology and Zodiac Gears Align, Horsepower and Driving Habits Shift
Carstrology is what happens when automotive wisdom, human behavior, astrology, and years of service-counter confessions collide under one very suspicious moon.

In this third book in the Car Confidential series, Shahe Koulloukian takes readers on a hilarious, revealing ride through the strange emotional universe of car ownership. This is not a traditional car book. It is not a repair manual, a horoscope column, or a lecture from a mechanic trying to scare you into an oil change. It is a behavioral owner’s manual for the person behind the wheel.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 - 16: Pictorial History of Cizeta Automobili
11:00 – 3:00
Brian Wiklem 
 
Claudio Zampolli did not set out to build a sensible car. With a gift for engineering and a catastrophic disregard for practical business realities, he believed Ferrari and Lamborghini had grown too restrained. In the late 1980s, alongside Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder, Zampolli launched the first new Italian exotic car company in decades and created one of the most outrageous supercars ever conceived: the Cizeta V16T. With its Marcello Gandini-designed wedge body and transversely mounted 16-cylinder engine, the V16T looked less like a production automobile than an escaped artifact from a parallel future. Excessive, wildly ambitious, and mechanically astonishing, it immediately secured its place as one of the most unforgettable cars of its era.

This book tells the complete story of the Cizeta project, from the development of its extraordinary V16 engine to the handful of production cars ultimately completed. Featuring rare archival photography, chassis histories, technical analysis, and detailed examinations of every known production example, it chronicles both the triumph and collapse of a company attempting the impossible in the brutal supercar market of the early 1990s. The Cizeta V16T may have failed commercially, but decades later it remains one of the purest expressions of unchecked automotive ambition ever placed on the road.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 - Motorsports Mavericks
11:00 – 3:00
George Levy 
 
Daring Drivers, Brilliant Designers, and Milestone Events That Reshaped F1, Indy, NASCAR, Le Mans and More
Motorsport’s most thrilling and perilous era, brought to life with expert narration, exclusive interviews, and Pete Biro’s spectacular photography.

In the 1960s and ’70s, every form of racing demanded courage in the face of disproportionate risk. In Motorsports Mavericks, the award-winning team of photographer Pete Biro and racing historian George Levy brings us the rise and fall of this “Golden Age” of motorsports through the insights and analysis of the participants themselves—putting us in the same room with history’s greatest racing legends. Pete Biro’s unforgettable photography, much of it unpublished or long unseen, conveys the speed, danger, and glory in vivid detail.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 - Earl Scheib A Colorful Life
11:00 – 3:00
Don Sheib

From humble beginnings painting cars after hours at a Los Angeles service station, Earl Scheib built an automotive painting empire.  His revolutionary approach to quality, speed and price made professional car painting affordable for everyone and changed the industry forever.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 - Drop Me Around the Corner – A memoir
11:00 – 3:00
Tracy Bouvier

Imagine life is like a sitcom starring your eccentric, single father who can never get enough attention. His physical appearance turns people’s heads. He wears an obvious toupee and walks around the house naked. He has a handlebar mustache and sideburns dyed jet black, and he shows off his tanned, muscular physique by leaving his shirt unbuttoned down to his navel wherever he goes. His appearance and his off-colored jokes draw attention, but his van
is the real embarrassment.

This van is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. It’s covered in brass ornaments and silver dollars, and it shines like gold, attracting stares and even media coverage. Even Vegas casinos covet having it parked at their entrances for patrons to ogle.

Tracy shares what it was like being raised by her ostentatious but loving father. Left unsupervised to fend for herself in a series of life-threatening situations, Tracy finds herself on a wild ride down a road you would never expect.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 - Derek Daly Serial Survivor
11:00 – 3:00
Derek Daly
 
A highly entertaining race driver’s memoir

A blend of entertaining storytelling, brutal honesty and high drama, Irish racing driver Derek Daly’s memoir is a page-turner. His meteoric rise from a modest background in Dublin to the heights of Formula 1 is a story of relentless determination and unbridled talent, but when he reached motor racing’s pinnacle — ultimately with the top-notch Williams team in 1982 — his success story started to unravel, partly because of numerous and sometimes horrifyingly spectacular crashes often caused by car breakages. He made a clean break and went to America, where he raced Indycars and sports cars before metamorphosing into a hugely popular TV commentator, interviewer and pundit. Now, in his own words, he has put the entire rollercoaster of his life into a spellbinding autobiography that all racing fans will love.