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Boreham: The 40-Year Story of Ford's Motorsport Dream Factory

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Graham Robson is a prolific writer of Marque books and seems to have had experience in many of the companies. I was disappointed in his approach in this book in that it is written from an administrators' viewpoint. Perhaps this is correct in that there probably more watchers than doers. I have a car that supposedly was breathed upon by the Borham works but could find NO specific details of this nature. There is No mention that Borham was a store where we average punters could buy bits for OUR cars and that there were perhaps thousands of us whose cars benefited from this. Also unmentioned is Fords' abortive attempt to enter the sports car market with the 61-63 Capri. Inevitably some of their owners had made use of the wonderful tuning bits available at Boreham to make their cars more competitive. There is little said of Borhams' early years other than that the Cortinas were unreliable--when run in the viscous Forrest Rallies.
Overall, when an engine is mentioned, it is ONLY described as a 1700 or such missing all the technically interesting detail--for gearheads.
This is obviously NOT Robsons' forte' in that it is also evident in His Cosworth book which does however include some interesting technical information.
I would have REALLY appreciated an early catalog of the parts available in the store as an example of the extent that Ford went to to make their cars competitive!