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50 Fascinating Lives with Cars
‘An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong.’ – Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & Steam
Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories is a whistle-stop tour of fifty fascinating petrolheads and how they changed car culture for good
Meet: The Prince of Darkness! The Sweeney’s ace stunt driver! Renault’s doyenne of colours and fabrics!
Discover: A pathetic steam car! Metal underpants! The unseen brilliance of Jaguars!
And find out exactly how one man adored his Volvo so much that he drove it around the world 120 times to cruise into the record books.
'An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which like human relationships can go badly wrong'. Christian Wolmar
Book of the Month 'As the subtitle suggests, this is a compendium of all those shiny little stories that Chapman has collected like a magpie over the years.' - Classic & Sports Car magazine
9th July, 2024 in Transport & Industry, Trivia & Gift
I love finding out about what motivates people and how the journey of their lives has unfolded. I am nosey and make no apology for it. Mind you, these are things you certainly require as a journalist; an almost manic need to dig away until you get what you need, which is generall…
29th November, 2021 in Transport & Industry, Trivia & Gift
Ever since the publication of my book Britain’s Toy Car Wars: The War Of Wheels Between Dinky, Corgi & Matchbox, I’ve been pondering on collecting old diecast toy cars and lorries again. It’s proved hard to resist, an impulse hard-wired in over more than 50 years. I…
21st November, 2016 in Transport & Industry
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