Christmas gifts autosport books
#1
Posted 24 December 2010 - 20:59
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#2
Posted 25 December 2010 - 21:52
Happy Christmas!
(I got the full Beatles c.d. collection, too.)
#3
Posted 25 December 2010 - 22:35
#4
Posted 25 December 2010 - 23:04
Stephen Davisons- Between the Hedges
Mick Grant - Taking The Mick
And Slade - Live at the BBC
#5
Posted 26 December 2010 - 00:28
Sine a lot of us here are hard core autosport fans I assume that many of use will also receive an autosport nostalgia book for Christmas. It was the case for me so I'm kicking off this list. I received the following book from my parents: Jochen Rindt: Uncrowned King by David Tremayne. Curious to know if other people here also receivded books.
I also got the Jochen Rindt book its excellent! Also Hesketh and Matra retro T-Shirts and Silverstone GP tickets!
#6
Posted 26 December 2010 - 05:14
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Posted 26 December 2010 - 07:13
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Posted 26 December 2010 - 10:11
#9
Posted 26 December 2010 - 10:14
I am so happy. I was expecting a Lewis Hamilton biography or a recent F.1 annual but instead my step-daughter and her partner bought me Mike Lawrence's 'Grand Prix Cars 1945-65' which I have always wanted.
Happy Christmas!
(I got the full Beatles c.d. collection, too.)
Who are The Beatles?
#10
Posted 26 December 2010 - 10:26
Sine a lot of us here are hard core autosport fans I assume that many of use will also receive an autosport nostalgia book for Christmas. It was the case for me so I'm kicking off this list. I received the following book from my parents: Jochen Rindt: Uncrowned King by David Tremayne. Curious to know if other people here also receivded books.
I also received the Jochen Rindt book, together with Rivals by Chris Nixon.
Should keep me busy!
#11
Posted 26 December 2010 - 14:08
Sports Car Racing in Camera 1950-59 by our own Paul Parker. I have not settled down to it yet but the captions look to be very informative.
#12
Posted 26 December 2010 - 15:18
Well it's only 11 months until my birthday (for Volume 2) and 364 days until Christmas (for Volume 1).
Mark
#13
Posted 26 December 2010 - 15:22
Plus Formula Junior from Blunsden (reprint) and for something totally different Snake vs. Mongoose by Tom Madigan, all three books from my girlfriend - brilliant !
From another family member came Ten Days In Sicily.
And I treated myself finally to Weekend Heroes - what a book .
So I do hope for some more snow over the next days to be able to read a bit !
Edited by Ralf Pickel, 26 December 2010 - 15:23.
#14
Posted 26 December 2010 - 16:49
I had hoped for more pictures from Peter Mullin's new museum (there's only one), but that's a nit. Visiting the museum is on top of my 2011 list, and I'll get photos then.
It certainly will replace Jonathan Wood's Bugatti book in the shelf of Bugatti books I keep at hand.
#15
Posted 26 December 2010 - 18:56
Wow!! You don't have a second copy do you?? My dog-eared paperback disappeared long ago and its loss is much lamented.I gave my dad a copy of 'The racing driver' by DSJ, signed by Jenks too. My dad seemed pretty happy too.
#17
Posted 27 December 2010 - 06:57
A simple book with a rather ponderous style, which 55 years after publication, conveys a ton of (unintended) humour and really does emphasise why we are ALL masochists at heart.
One quotation resonated...." England is favored to remain the world's largest and most diversified builder of sports cars"
However the author's comments regarding his use of an Austin - Healey. .........two windshields cracked..the third fell off; water poured in through the door seals; the overdrive failed; side curtains cracked,; a brake line came loose and the doors jammed...................he ends up by saying...."the Austin - Healey remains an excellently conceived motorcar."
No doubt about it..we all are a sane, normal bunch !!
#18
Posted 27 December 2010 - 06:58
#19
Posted 27 December 2010 - 09:10
Wow!! You don't have a second copy do you?? My dog-eared paperback disappeared long ago and its loss is much lamented.
I'm afraid not, I found it on abe books if that's any help?
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#20
Posted 27 December 2010 - 21:44
Christopher Hilton's Memories of James Hunt - ideal reading for the holiday period.
Mercifully this year I wasn't given Motor Racing's Strangest Races, or the Official F1 Yearbook with last year's dates, or some of the collections of fatual bloopers that are out there.
Edited by D-Type, 21 August 2013 - 21:48.
#21
Posted 28 December 2010 - 01:41
It was definitely a nostalgia Christmas this year - my main present was a mounted and framed memory module from a computer I worked on in the mid-60's. I hope they didn't have to pay the $15,000 it cost new!
#22
Posted 28 December 2010 - 14:56
Are you sure?I am so happy. I was expecting a Lewis Hamilton biography or a recent F.1 annual but instead my step-daughter and her partner bought me Mike Lawrence's 'Grand Prix Cars 1945-65' which I have always wanted.
http://forums.autosp...amp;hl=lawrence
#23
Posted 28 December 2010 - 15:30
I was fooled by the different cover!
I did think it had a familiar look to it!
Edited by Barry Boor, 28 December 2010 - 15:31.
#24
Posted 28 December 2010 - 17:10
Some of my family members bought me "Motion Performance- Tales of a muscle car builder" by Martyn L Schorr and "Bob Bondurant Uncrowned Champion" by Phil Henney.
Also"The other Moss" by E Alan Moss (signed). I still have a second hand copy of "Cooper Cars" by Doug Nye to read. My brother found it in a charity shop in Cornwall just before christmas for a quid.
Barry, my daughter got me "Magical Mystery Tour" for christmas, im a big Beatles fan too.
#25
Posted 28 December 2010 - 18:12
http://www.motorgrap...fromsearch=true
And since people prefer to give me cash (which I also prefer) I ordered Photo Formula 1 (The Best of Automobile Year 1953-1978).
#26
Posted 29 December 2010 - 09:22
I treated myself to 'Bristol Cars a very British story', respectfully written by a Bristol owner Christopher Balfour.
#27
Posted 29 December 2010 - 15:24
BTW, I spotted the "new" book on James Hunt in Waterstones' sale today at £5.99 down from £25
Tony
#28
Posted 29 December 2010 - 21:29
My Christmas reading is "Peter Collins - All about the boy" by Ed McDonough which I missed when it was published a couple of years ago. A++++
BTW, I spotted the "new" book on James Hunt in Waterstones' sale today at £5.99 down from £25
Tony
I got "Shunt" for Xmas and I have to say looking at the inside back cover I fear it has the same things I disliked about Life of Senna.
My mum says she wasn't going to get me 2nd hand books for my Xmas, even if they were out of print, so I've got an Amazon gift card to buy them myself instead.
#29
Posted 29 December 2010 - 22:07
Of the new releases, Grand Prix Battlegrounds is a good one, I can vouch.
#30
Posted 30 December 2010 - 15:22
Well, bizarrely Burtynsky was shooting a panoramic picture of the events happening on the Bonneville Salt Flats at the exact moment I was there in September 2008 helping a friend run two LSR MGs, and these are captured in the image for all time, from a perspective I could have never expected. So we now feature in a piece of art, and this image is one of the most memorable in the whole book. Its at http://www.edwardbur..._01_08_Oil.html
Marticelli
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Posted 30 December 2010 - 20:20
#32
Posted 30 December 2010 - 22:28
I am a very happy man to receive Racing in the Rain by John Horsman and the Vic Elford bio.
"The History of English Racing Automobiles Ltd" by David Weguelin, first edition, published 1980. A bit of a treasure.
Also, "Spitfire Saga", Volume 3, the story of the Norwegian RAF squadrons (331 and 332) that flew Spitfires with great distinction during WWII. Volume 2 concluded with the Dieppe raid, and flying from North Weald. The latest colume would appear to be just as meticulously researched and presented as the previous two. All chapters have summaries in English, as do all the illustrations.
Finally, Argetsinger's Walt Hansgen biography, another hero of mine from the late Fifties and early Sixties.
But man does not live by books alone. Santa also brought me a parcel containing a set of Konis and complete polybush kit front and rear for the 3.8 Mk 2.
Edited by doc knutsen, 30 December 2010 - 22:29.
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#35
Posted 31 December 2010 - 18:22
Geoff