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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Motor sports > General
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Quiz Prix
(Paperback)
Steph Barraclough; Foreword by Tom Kristensen, Neil Cole
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R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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'This pacy history of a legendary brand is a love letter to an era
of gears and gasoline now accelerating towards its twilight' -
Financial Times '[Told] with a genuine affection ... a glorious
tale of British seat-of-the-pants invention' - Mail on Sunday
--------- From bestselling author, racer and stunt driver Ben
Collins - the man who was The Stig - comes a story of spies, speed
and hard-driving genius: a driver's love letter to one of the
world's best-loved machines. Aston Martin's first, wickedly fast
models were forged at a time when Ferrari's premises at Maranello
was nothing but a ploughed field. This book celebrates a century of
innovators who kept the fire burning brightly for over a century,
from the visionary pioneers Martin and Bamford to modern-day design
guru Adrian Newey; from a glamorous web of pre- and post-war spies
and racing drivers, to David Brown and the achingly beautiful DB
models beloved of Bonds past and present. Ben Collins explores the
car with the double-o prefix from a unique perspective behind the
wheel, carving through country lanes in his father's V8 Vantage,
driving Aston Martins in four James Bond movies and competing
against them in the legendary Le Mans 24-hour race. Ultimately,
this is a very British success story: of a triumph of engineering
that has burned brightly from the Roaring 20s to the 2020s, and an
iconic car that never says die.
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