Motoring Hard Back Books

[Muzzman]

I'm having a lot of work done on the house and part of the work gives me a decent size study/ guest room.

This might be a bit of a naff idea but I've always fancied a study with lots of motor racing hard back books.

I've started building up a collection and to be honest really enjoying reading them.

Examples being:

1st Edition Mike Hawthorn, Challenge me the race.
1st Edition Jackie Stewart: Faster
Sam Posey: Where the writer meets the road.
Nigel Roebuck: Chasing the Title
Phil Hill: Driving Life
Christopher Hilton: Ayrton Senna
Mark Donohue: Unfair Advantage

Has anyone got any recommendations?

Thanks

Edited by Muzzman on Saturday 24th April 19:26

[Muzzman]

samoht said:

The title says 'motoring' but the post says 'motor racing', and are you looking for 'coffee table' books (large format, big glossy photos) or more historical ones?

On the motoring side, Driving Ambition, the McLaren F1 story is a great detail look inside the making of a very special car

On the racing side, I like Never Stop Challenging, basically the complete story of Mazda's rotary racing programme, right from the beginning in the 60s with the Cosmo Sport, up to the 1991 Le Mans victory with the 787B - lots of fantastic original photos.

On the historic side, I like having Jim Clark At The Wheel, because it's from the horse's mouth and is a time-capsule of how he saw things at the time, undistorted by subsequent hagiography.

Thanks for your reply, I'm definitely not looking for the massive coffee table books, more historical ones about people, teams, cars etc I would say.

All three that you mention fit the bill nicely, I'll take a look, all sound really interesting. I actually started trying to pick up good value second hand books for a couple of quid but I seem to have blown that with the Hawthorn book.

I'm currently looking at a first edition The Enzo Ferrari Memoirs "My Terrible Joys" 1963 but at £150 I'm going against the original idea of a few quid.