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Lotus Elan and +2 Source Book

By Matthew Vale, £45, veloce.co.uk Planning to buy a Lotus Elan? Buy this book first. Everything you could possibly want to know about owning, restoring and maintaining Lotus’s icon, from someone who’s been there and done it.

Alfa Romeo Tipo 105 RHD

By Patrick Dasse, £70, dingwort-verlag.de The latest volume in Dasse’s completist Alfa 105 history series is a tad specific, but useful if you’re interested in all the various right-hand-drive models, bearing in mind South African production and the Australian market’s demands. Lots of reused content from his earlier books though.

Excess All Areas – British Kit Cars of the 1970s

By Richard Hestletine, £27, performancepublishing.co.uk Tells the in-depth stories of the British specialist manufacturers of the post-‘specials’ era. Read between the lines and it’s a book as much about lost car culture as it is about the cars themselves.

All these books are available from Chater’s, many with discounts. To find out more, go to chaters.co.uk