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Fit for a King - The Royal Garage of the Shahs of Iran (Hardcover)
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Fit for a King - The Royal Garage of the Shahs of Iran (Hardcover)
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Iran has a monarchial history spanning over 2,500 years. Almost all
of Iran’s Kings have had vast unchecked powers as they built, and
lost, some of the largest empires in history. These vast powers led
to Iran’s Kings being referred to as “Shahan Shah” meaning
literally the “King of Kings”. With the advent of the
automobile, Iran’s Shahan Shah’s used their broad powers to
procure some of the world’s most renown and unique automobiles
for their royal garages starting with the first car to be imported
to Iran, a Gardner-Serpollet 10hp to unique exotica such as the
famed Maserati 5000GT “Scia de Persia” specially-ordered and
owned by Iran’s last King, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. In his
broad spanning work, Iranian automotive historian Borzou Sepasi
traces the history of the royal garage of each Iranian Shah,
starting with Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar in 1900, who despite
importing the first car, forbade drivers from going faster than
carriages, all the way up to the 1979 revolution and, in a unique
postscript, traces the fate of many of the cars covered in the book
following the end of monarchial rule in Iran. The book also
intertwines many of the historical events in Iran with the cars of
the period, highlighting the special role these vehicles played.
Dalton Watson is proud to present this little-known, but extremely
unique, niche in automotive history to its readers.
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