Here are some of my favorite titles. Links are to Amazon.com.

• Weekend Driver San Diego by Jack Brandais. Yes, it’s the signature publication of this web site. Do you have your copy yet? GO>

If you’re a serious road enthusiast, check out these titles.

• Anza-Borrego A to Z, by Diana Lindsay, and The Anza-Borrego Desert Region, by Lowell and Diana Lindsay. If you’re headed to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, be sure to take these along. There isn’t much that has escaped the Lindsays. “A to Z” is a dictionary-style list, while “Region” includes car, off-road and hiking tours. By the way, the Lindsays own Sunbelt Publications, which publishes Weekend Driver San Diego. They still have the definitive books on the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
  
  
• The Old U.S. 80 Highway Traveler’s Guide, Phoenix to San Diego, by Eric J. Finley. The premier road guide for the western end of "The Other Mother Road." A good supplement to Weekend Driver San Diego and the stories you’ll find on this web site.
  
  
• San Diego County Place Names A to Z, by Leland Fetzer. A new book that covers many of the interesting, historic and sometimes goofy names in the region.

• Leave Only Pawprints, by Donna Lawrence. If you’ve got a dog, this is the book for you. Jack Brandais did the book design on this title, even though he’s a cat owner!
  
  
• Sunbelt Publications: Publisher of Weekend Driver San Diego and many of the best books about San Diego.

Frankly, I find the boardroom history of the car companies facinating. Big business, big decisions, big men, big bucks, big successes and big failures. Here are some of my favorite auto business books.

• Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel, by Thomas E. Bonsall. Whether you’re a car history nut or business professor, this well-written and documented book talks about the culture at the car companies during the 1950s, how the Edsel came to be... and not to be.
  
  
• The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company, by James A. Ward, and More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story, by Thomas E. Bonsall. Really these are companion books, since Studebaker and Packard ultimately went down together. The inside-the-boardroom intrigues are facinating.
  
  
• Kaiser-Frazer: The Last Onslaught On Detroit, By Richard M. Langworth. Anything that Richard Langworth writes is great, and this hard-to-find book is no exception. Another auto industry business story with an unhappy ending. It’s subtitled “An Intimate Behind the Scenes Study of the Postwar American Car Industry,” which was an amazing time of huge companies getting more huge and small companies disappearing. Find out why one disappeared.
  
  
• Glory Days: When Horespower and Passion Ruled Detroit, by Jim Wangers. It's a breezy look at the good old days when cars were fast and the admen were faster. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to meet Jim Wangers, you’ll hear his fast voice throughout this book... it’s like having a conversation with him.
  
  
• Taken For A Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off With Chrysler, by Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz. Here’s a contemporary story of auto industry intrigue. Vlasic and Stertz, veteran auto industry writers, paint a breezy tale about how an American industrial icon was taken over by a German industrial icon... and why Chrysler was suprised. Especially relevant with the rumors that Chrysler will be sold off.