COLLECTORS MOTOR RACING BOOK

TITLE: GREAT CARS SERIES 1: JAGUAR LIGHTWEIGHT E-TYPE - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 4 WPD

PUBLICATION YEAR/ DATE: 2014 (1st EDITION)

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COVER TYPE: HARDBACK PUBLISHED WITH DUST JACKET

SIZE & # OF PAGES: 24.5CM x 29CM - 320 PAGES

PUBLISHER & AUTHOR: PORTER PRESS - PHILIP PORTER

CONDITION: BRAND NEW 9.5 OUT OF 10

Detailed Item Description:

RUN BY JOHN COOMBS WITH FACTORY SUPPORT AND DRIVEN BY SOME OF THE BEST RACING DRIVERS OF THE DAY, THIS CAR TOOK PART IN THE E-TYPE’S FIRST MOTOR RACE AND LATER BECAME THE PROTOTYPE ALL-ALUMINIUM LIGHTWEIGHT E-TYPE.

THE CAR’S POST-COOMBS RACING LIFE IS ALSO FULLY COVERED, EMBRACING UP-AND-COMING BRIAN REDMAN’S EXPLOITS WITH IT IN 1965 AND ITS MODERN-DAY SUCCESSES AT THE GOODWOOD REVIVAL, WHERE IT HAS TWICE WON THE TT CELEBRATION RACE AND HAS BEEN RACED BY NUMEROUS FINE DRIVERS, INCLUDING DARIO FRANCHITTI AND EMANUELE PIRRO.

IN THIS BOOK EXPERT AUTHOR PHILIP PORTER COVERS THIS FAMOUS E-TYPE’S ACTIVE LIFE IN EVERY DETAIL, USING A WIDE VARIETY OF SOURCE MATERIAL – INCLUDING FACTORY DOCUMENTATION – TO EXPLORE NOT ONLY THE CAR’S RACE-BY-RACE PERFORMANCES BUT ALSO THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION. A FINE ARRAY OF PERIOD PHOTOGRAPHS – EVERY COMPETITION APPEARANCE IS SHOWN – AND A GALLERY OF MAGNIFICENT MODERN IMAGES SUPPORT THE METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED TEXT.

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  • BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED AND PRESENTED
  • PACKED WITH STUNNING PERIOD MATERIAL, MOST NEVER SEEN BEFORE
  • STORY OF THE PROTOTYPE LIGHTWEIGHT E-TYPE TOLD IN FULL
  • 4 WPD RACED BY GREAT DRIVERS, INCLUDING GRAHAM HILL, ROY SALVADORI, DAN GURNEY, JACKIE STEWART
  • SIR JACKIE STEWART SAYS ‘ IT WAS A BIG DEAL FOR ME TO  GET A DRIVE FOR JOHN COOMBS…ONE OF THOSE DREAM OCCASIONS FOR A YOUNG DRIVER’

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