This is the authorised biography of one of the best-liked bad boys
in British motorsport. John Chatham, driver, racer, repairer,
rebuilder, tuner, trader and lover of Austin-Healeys, was,
according to Geoffrey Healey, "uncontrollable" in his youth, and
has only mildly mellowed with age. Burly and genial, but formidably
competitive, and not above bending the rules when he thought he
could get away with it, to many he is the archetypal club racer.
John is so synonymous with Austin-Healeys that the most famous
racing Healey in the world, DD300, is so well-known mainly because
John campaigned it for decades, notching up tens of thousands of
racing miles. But his career embraces far more than one car, and
until this biography no-one had attempted to fill in the gaps. The
book is not a dry description of one club race after another. It
does include a list of John's principal sporting achievements, but
no complete record exists of the hundreds of events which made up
his competitive career, so the writer has not attempted to compile
one. Instead Norman Burr, who was himself acquainted with John in
his youth, has created a more rounded and personal account, full of
motoring and sporting anecdotes, but also telling the story of
John's family, his work, his business, his three wives and his
lovers. John has a comprehensive photo library from which the book
is generously illustrated, with cartoons added to illustrate some
of the moments that a camera was not around to record. Thoroughly
politically incorrect even by the standards of the 1960s, it's an
account which will strike a chord not only with admirers of Big
Healeys, but also with anyone who believes that independent
thinking, and the courage to apply and enjoy it, is the greatest
virtue of all. This book is now available in paperback format, due
to popular demand.
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