You can’t spend every minute in your TVR car, as much as you might want to. Since you’ve got to get out sometime, why not look into some books to improve your driving enjoyment? There are a variety of volumes written by fans who take their work very seriouslyseriously enough to spend their days test-driving cars, interviewing insiders, and compiling it all together to give you the same thrill.If you’re just starting out in the world of TVR literature, Iain Ayre’s TVR: All the Cars (Haynes Publishing, 2007) is a comprehensive introduction to every vehicle from every era of the company, starting with Trevor Wilkinson’s earliest models in the early 1950s. In addition to the rarer early cars, the book also includes looks at never-completed prototypes and, for those interested in getting in on the fun themselves, a guide to purchasing your first TVR on any budget.For those looking to get a stronger sense of the history of the brand, TVR: An Illustrated History (Haynes Publishing, 2006) by John Tipler provides just what it promises. Don’t worry about getting bogged down in pages and pages of text as you follow the path from Blackpool to the buyout by Russian millionaire Nikolai Smolensky. Full-color photos liven up the proceedings and make even the financial trials of the recent years bearable. Interviews with the owners provide a look at the personal strength needed to run such a distinctive business.If, on the other hand, technical data is what you crave, look no further than R.M. Clarke’s TVR Performance Portfolio 1986-94 (Brooklands Books, 1994). While it obviously doesn’t cover any of the newest models, the book provides road test results, performance data, model introductions, and more from one of the company’s most distinctive periods under the reign of owner Peter Wheeler. It’s a great gift for classic gearheads interested to see just how much their favorite cars can crank out.