At the age of eight, John Cooper was presented with a miniature car built by his father Charles: from that point onwards, John's life was to revolve around racing cars... The story really begins with two written-off Fiat 500 `Topolinos' that were cannabilised, in the austere days following World War..
Long Straights and Hairpin Turns is the first of two volumes capturing a special time in Pacific Northwest sports car racing history, the 1950s and 1960s. The story, written with amazing detail, insight, and passion, starts in 1950 with the first four-cylinder exhaust notes at B.C.'s Abbotsford Airp..
Mike Hawthorn was born in 1929 in a small south Yorkshire town, the son of an engineer whose passion happened to be motorcycles and motor sport. The family moved soon afterwards to Farnham in Surrey, so that Leslie Hawthorn could be near the Brooklands race circuit. It was not long before his son Jo..
Mon Ami Mate is the story of two of Britain's finest and most charismatic racing drivers, Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins. Throughout the nineteen-fifties they played a large part in putting Great Britain on the International racing map and, in 1958, Mike became the country's first-ever World Champi..
The Jaguar XK engine is most certainly a legend in its own lifetime. With its variable capacity and application from the XK120 Sports car, to C and D Type race cars, Jaguar produced a winning engine. In this book, Doug Nye looks at the golden era of sports racing cars, ‘powered by Jaguar’. With a ch..
The Jaguar XK engine is most certainly a legend in its own lifetime. With its variable capacity and application from the XK120 Sports car, to C and D Type race cars, Jaguar produced a winning engine. In this book, Doug Nye looks at the golden era of sports racing cars, ‘powered by Jaguar’. With a ch..
A gruff Derbyshire pig farmer, Reg Parnell cut a distinctive figure in motorsport circles. His early wild driving style and a serious accident at Brooklands with a K3 MG led to the withdrawal of his racing licence by the RAC from 1937 to 1939. But, nothing daunted him, and ever the wheeler dealer , ..
Original official poster from the event.Please note this poster has been photographed under plastic wrapping so features some glare. It will be removed from the wrapping and sent in a tube for postage...
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