Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories
50 Fascinating Lives with Cars
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'An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which like human relationships can go badly wrong'. Christian Wolmar
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‘An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong.’ – Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & Steam
Les mer‘An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong.’ – Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & Steam
Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories is a whistle-stop tour of fifty fascinating petrolheads and how they changed car culture for good
Meet: The Prince of Darkness! The Sweeney’s ace stunt driver! Renault’s doyenne of colours and fabrics!
Discover: A pathetic steam car! Metal underpants! The unseen brilliance of Jaguars!
And find out exactly how one man adored his Volvo so much that he drove it around the world 120 times to cruise into the record books.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- The History Press Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781803995496
- Utgivelsesår
- 2024
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
GILES CHAPMAN is an award-winning motoring writer. He has edited and written for numerous car magazines, and contributed to national newspapers. His books include My Dad Had One Of Those, Chapman’s Car Compendium, Cars We Loved in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and 100 Cars Britain Can Be Proud Of. He lives in Kent.
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'An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which like human relationships can go badly wrong'. Christian Wolmar
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