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S'està carregant… Back Fire: A Passion for Cars and Motoringde Alan Clark
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Excellent understanding of speed and driving. ( ) Alan Clark MP, Conservative minister and relatively impoverished heir to a cotton-spinning fortune, was also a dedicated motorist and author of a monthly column in "Classic Cars" magazine. As Robert Coucher, editor of the magazine says in the introduction to this book, his brief was to be controversial - and he was. His articles, of which this book is largely composed together with a few entries from his published diaries, elicited more reader response than almost all the rest of the magazine, not all of it complimentary, and one can see why. He despised rich collectors who had their cars re-chromed, re-painted and re-upholstered within an inch of their lives and then did nothing so detrimental as driving them. Nor was he a snob about the cost of cars, though he had and drove many of the most expensive that could be bought. He travelled with members of his family from the south of England to Zermatt in his 2CV and enjoyed leaving reps behind at the lights in what he called his "Q-car", a Volkswagen Beetle with a Porsche engine and brakes. This is a wonderful evocation of a society, an attitude and a motoring era now sadly gone for ever. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Alan Clark's passion for cars - that he bought, drove and wrote about over 50 years Alan Clark was passionate about cars from an early age. He bought his first car - a secondhand 6.5 litre Bentley - while still a schoolboy at Eton and without a driving licence. By the time he was 24 he had been banned from driving three times, not only for speeding but in one instance for driving an open Buick Roadster with a girl on his lap. He dealt in 'classic' and vintage cars and soon built up an impressive stable of his own. One of his first published pieces of journalism appeared in the US magazine, Road and Track, for which he was briefly UK correspondent. BACK FIRE, the title of a column he wrote in Thoroughbred and Classic Cars magazine, ran for three years until his death in September 1999. Alan Clark's elder son, James Clark - who has inherited his father's motoring enthusiasms - provides a Prologue; Alan Clark's widow Jane writes a moving Afterword. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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