Randy Leffingwell creates pictorial books on automobiles, motorcycles, and farm vehicles. Titles include Porsche Legends, Mustang, Caterpillar, American Farm Tractor, and Harley-Davidson: Myth and Mystique. Before devoting his work time to creating illustrated books on vehicles, Leffingwell was an associate editor with AutoWeek Magazine and a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. In creating his pictorial books, Leffingwell travels nationwide, researching and photographing intriguing road and farm vehicles. He has interviewed many vehicle designers, spoken with museum specialists, and visited many factories, in his efforts to create detailed books. For example, he searched through… hundreds of old Henry Ford Museum boxes and hired researchers in order to obtain facts on Ford tractors. Randy Leffingwell's photograph composition background and historical research have contributed to literature on the history of American transportation.
Darwin Holmstrom has written or co-written many books on muscle cars and motorcycling, including the best-selling Camaro Forty Years and Muscle: America's Legendary Performance Cars. He lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Photographer and writer David Newhardt was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Southern Illinois University, majoring in Professional Photography. He served eight years in the US Navy aboard nuclear submarines, before settling in Southern California. Newhardt worked at Motor Trend magazine for three years, and has been on the masthead of many automotive titles. He has worked in the fashion photography field, but finds that automobiles… make better subjects. The author of seven books, he has supplied scores of other books with images. A long-time member of the Motor Press Guild, he lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife and two sons.