Drive for real

Firstly I'm not a car nut, and would not normally check out a book on old automobiles, but I've made an exception with "Built for adventure : the classic automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt" written by Clive Cussler with photography by Ronnie Bramhall.

The 1929 Duesenberg on the cover

It is an illustrated work about Clive Cussler/Dirk Pitt's classic car collection, and includes a chapter for each of these 56 rare, classic, and antique automobiles, with text on the general history and acquisition of each vehicle (yes he did find some rusting in barns), along with glossy colour photographs of the car, and other detail ones of the dash, or engine, name plate etc.
Models include a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Touring car, Mercedes-Benz 630K, Duesenberg J-140, Cadillac V-16 Roadster, Ford Cabriolet Hot Rod, Packard V-12 and heaps more. My personal favourite was the 1933 American Austin Bantam Roadster, with the Harley bike a close second.

The Austin

The whole (larger, over 100 vehicles) collection is in The Cussler Museum in Arvada in Colorado.
Fans of Clive Cussler's bestselling Dirk Pitt series and its spin-offs, know that his hero Dirk has a soft spot for rare and classic automobiles, and that the vehicles that appear in the novels, are actually part of Cussler's own vast collection (wondering, does this make their acquisition some kind of tax deduction as a requirement for writing the book?).
I was keen on Clive's other non-fiction foray - "The sea hunters" which described Clive's searches, with the real NUMA, for historic shipwrecks, which is why I was interested to have a look at "Built for adventure".