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High Performance: When Britain Ruled the Roads (Paperback)
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High Performance: When Britain Ruled the Roads (Paperback)
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'A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain's
cities after the war and created the finest automobiles the world
had ever seen... High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of
their journey' Ben Collins, bestselling author of How To Drive
'High Performance is a cracking read and an adrenaline-packed
tribute to the time when British mavericks "blew the bloody doors
off" the competition' Sunday Times 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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