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High Performance. When Britain Ruled the Roads; Simon & Schuster, 2020
- Издатель: Simon & Schuster
- ISBN: 9781471168482
EAN: 978-1-4711-6848-2
- Книги: Спорт
- ID: 14009845
Описание
In January 1964, a team of tiny red and white Mini Coopers stunned the world by winning the legendary Monte Carlo Rally. It was a stellar year for British cars that culminated in Goldfinger breaking box office records and making James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 the world’s most famous sports car.
By the sixties, on road, track and silver screen the Brits were the ones to beat, winning Formula One championships and capturing hearts. Designers like John Cooper, and Colin Chapman of Lotus, dismissed as mere ‘garagisti’ by Enzo Ferrari, grabbed all the prizes, while Alex Issigonis won a knighthood for his revolutionary Mini. The E Type Jaguar was feted as the world’s sexiest car and Land Rover the most durable.
But before the war only one British car had triumphed in a Grand Prix; Britain’s car builders were fiercely risk-averse. So what changed? To find out, Peter Grimsdale has gone in search of a generation of rebel creative spirits who emerged from railway arches and Nissen huts to tear up the rulebook with their revolutionary machines. Like the serial fugitives from the POW camps, they thrived on adversity, improvisation and sheer obstinate determination.
High Performance celebrates Britain’s automotive golden age and the mavericks who sketched them on the back of envelopes and garage floors, who fettled, bolted and welded them together and hammered the competition in the showroom, on the road and on the track – fuelled by contempt for convention.
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Параметр | Значение |
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Автор(ы) | Grimsdale Peter |
Год издания | 2020 |
Издатель | Simon & Schuster |
ISBN | 9781471168482 |
Обложка | мягкая обложка |
Кол-во страниц | 330 |
Вес | 0.25 |
Количество страниц | 330 |
Количество книг | 1 |
Тип обложки | мягкая |
Издательство | Simon & Schuster |
Жанр | фитнес и йога |
Возрастное ограничение | 16+ |
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