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Author: Jan McLaren
Publisher: Haynes Manuals
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780857332691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of memories and memorabilia celebrates the life and achievements in motor racing of Bruce McLaren.
Author: Richard Becht
Publisher: HarperCollins (New Zealand)
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781869508944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe was all things to motor racing - a man whose prodigious gifts earned him a place in history. In 1959 he became the world's youngest and New Zealand's first F1 Grand Prix winner - a record that would stand for almost 50 years. Tragically, on 2 June 1970, less than 11 years after his first Grand Prix success, Bruce Leslie McLaren died at the wheel of his car, on the test track. Packing more into those glorious days than seemed possible, in an extraordinary twist of fate, his fame reached greater heights after his death, as the motor-racing company he named and created became one of the most prestigious, vying with the likes of Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari. While McLaren began as a driver, he was also a visionary, who became an exceptional engineer, constructor, designer and inventor. Now, 41 years after it ended so abruptly, his life and achievements are celebrated as never before, in The Bruce McLaren Scrapbook.
Author: Stirling Moss
Publisher: Porter Press
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780955006821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year 1961 heralded a new era for motor racing with the introduction of Formula One. It was a double challenge for Stirling Moss, who was still recovering from the accident that had almost killed him the year before. Yet, a rested and refreshed Moss relished the challenge. In this season of change, he drove Lotuses, Ferraris, Coopers, and Porsches, and found time to court a succession of glamorous women, much to the delight of the world's press!
Author: Martin Brundle
Publisher: Porter Press
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907085123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStarting his career with banger racing as a child, Martin Brundle routinely beat adults on the track. Brundle would go on to beat some of the biggest names in motor sports. The Martin Brundle Scrapbook is a fascinating look at his remarkable career. You’ll see his battles with Senna, experience being F1 team members with legends like Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen, his luminary TV career, to name a few. This massive book is loaded with Brundle’s own memorabilia and contributions from over 50 personalities in the racing world. It all makes for an informative, surprising, and humorous romp through the life and times of an incredible figure.
Author: Murray Walker
Publisher: Porter Press International
Published: 2008-05-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780955656453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the English-speaking world, and beyond, one man is an absolute legend in motor racing circles. That man is, of course, Murray Walker. This book tells his story illustrated with over 500 images, from photos to cuttings to correspondence to trophies to very personal mementoes.
Author: Martin Port
Publisher: Porter Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781913089177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an unabashed celebration of one of Great Britain's greatest engineering names and the remarkable machines that can be seen in action all over the world. From the first trailer, produced from post-war scrap metal in 1945 to the latest award-winning electric mini-digger - the story of JCB is told through a remarkable collection of images from the company's own archives.
Author: Albert J. Baime
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0618822194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather's company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari, whose cars epitomized style, lorded it over the European racing scene. He crafted beautiful sports cars, "science fiction on wheels," but was also called "the Assassin" because so many drivers perished while racing them.Go Like Helltells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done.Go Like Helltransports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this brilliant portrait of a rivalry between two industrialists, the cars they built, and the "pilots" who would drive them to victory, or doom.
Author: Philip Porter
Publisher:
Published: 2007-06-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780955006869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraham Hill (1929-1975) is the only driver to have won motor racing's triple crown - the World Championship, the Indianapolis 500 and the Le Mans 24-Hour race. This title follows Hill from his childhood, through his humble beginnings as an unpaid mechanic, to the heights of World Championship fame in 1962, ending with his Indianapolis win in 1966.
Author: Martin Port
Publisher: Porter Press
Published: 2019-08-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907085949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaunched in 1959, the Mini helped to change automotive design, with its unique combination of aesthetics, space efficiency, engineering approach, and handling. Alec Issigonis’s masterpiece was an instant hit – not just with the buying public, but with celebrities and racers alike, from Sir Stirling Moss to ‘The Fab Four’. The Mini became a much-loved staple of the British car industry – a position that it has arguably enjoyed for 60 years and continues today. In this latest addition to the Scrapbook series from Porter Press International, the story of this unique little car is broken up into accessible nuggets and aided by a collection of archive and contemporary photography, to illustrate just what makes the Mini so special in this, its 60th year. Author Martin Port set the scene with a look at why this charismatic little car is so loved around the world. He reveals how the concept became a reality and covers each main incarnation of the classic Mini, from 1959 to 2000. From celebrity owners to appearances on the silver screen, competition wins and all sorts of weird and wonderful Mini variants – this is the ultimate visual guide to an icon of British design.
Author: Matthew Field
Publisher: Porter Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907085864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the British cult classic movie The Italian Job. This landmark anniversary presents a unique opportunity to celebrate the film with a coffee table book packed full of images, insights and revelations. Loaded with Sixties swagger, and famed for its endlessly quotable dialogue and one of the most impressive car chases in movie history, The Italian Job is the ultimate celebration of ‘cool Britannia’. From the opening sequence of Rossano Brazzi gliding through the Alps in an orange Lamborghini Miura, to the high-speed getaway across the city of Turin in three Mini Coopers, The Italian Job is a petrolhead's dream. The Self Preservation Society will detail how all these cars, including the Aston Martin DB4 and E-Type Jaguars were found and ultimately where they are today. Over the last 20 years, author Matthew Field he has interviewed all the key people involved in the 1969 production. Through him, their stories are revealed, often for the first time. Based on more than 50 in-depth interviews with the cast and crew, and lavishly illustrated with hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and production documents, this definitive book will explode some myths, include a few revelations and tell the fascinating full story of this perennially popular movie.
