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THIS BURBANK BOOKSTORE IS A REPOSITORY FOR THE WORLD OF AUTOMOTIVE INFORMATION NOT ON YOUR PHONE.

- MARK HEALY

LAST YEAR AMAZON SOLD more than 300 million books in the U.S., and not one of them was the ecstatic hot-rod manual 4-Bangers! And Me! or Pegaso por Monsalve, a lush and loving tribute to Spain's peak sports car. While Seattle's overachieving online bookseller has broadened its mission to sell virtually everything to everyone, a corner store on an unremarkable retail strip in Burbank, California, has mastered the art of going deep. Since 1951, Autobooks-Aerobooks has been selling car-related (and, to a lesser degree, aviation-related) printed matter that's hard to find anywhere else, even on Amazon.