Alfa Romeo Giulietta: 750 and 101 series Giuliettas and Giulias, 1954-1965 [Hardcover]

Evan Wilson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Osprey Pub (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0850454964
• ISBN-13: 978-0850454963
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,600,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Evan Wilson lives in Austin, Texas. He wrote a this-day-in-history column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sundays. He has published numerous articles in national magazines, but his all-time favorite is "Davis E-Service Runabouts" in the September-October 1991 issue of Classic Boating. His "history" of bib overalls is anthologized in "True South: Travels Through a Land of White Columns, Black-Eyed Peas, and Redneck Bars." He has also been a lobbyist for the artisanal commercial fishermen of North Carolina, worked overseas supplying economic intelligence to the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, and was President Johnson's Chief of Mission to the XIX Olympiad in Mexico City in 1968. In that capacity, Evan Wilson negotiated and signed the "Oaxtapec Declaration" on behalf of the United States.

In his recent book, "Epitaph for a Beautiful Ship" (2010), Wilson explores the historic threads which came together in 1986 as Baltimore's popular ambassador replica topsail schooner Pride of Baltimore was overcome by a sudden wind and sank quickly with the loss of her captain and three young crew members. Readers accompany her incident by incident, log entry by log entry, port-of-call by port-of-call, to learn how Pride ventured one cruise too far from her design mission. Finally, Wilson concludes "Epitaph for a Beautiful Ship" by exploring the lessons learned during the official investigation and how sailing school vessels and other tall ships now operate in greater safety because of -- as well as in spite of -- its findings.

Evan Wilson's other current book is a revised and updated rerelease of his 1983 best-selling carbook "Alfa Romeo Giulietta 750 and 101 series Giuliettas and Giulias; 1954-1965." In it, Wilson observed how owners talked about and worked to keep these cars running, whether as daily drivers, restored for weekend outings, or on the track. This rerelease contains more than 48% new material plus 40 new tables, including collector car market tracking for the new financial reality. The new edition still contains the production figures by year for each model, paint codes, detailed changes introduced by serial and engine numbers, race-prepping, and carburetor jetting mods that made the 1983 book so popular, but new tables for actual sale prices and auctions as recent as last year's (2010) have been added.