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Motor Racing: The Golden Age: Extraordinary Images from 1900 to 1970 (Golden Age S.)

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This coffee-table sized book has a lot of excellent pics of European, and, to a lesser extent, American, auto racing from the early 1900's to the late 1960's. We see pics of the cars, the races, the circuits, the drivers, the spectators, the accidents, and the personalities. There is virtually no text apart from the captions, so many of the pictures raise more questions than they answer. ("How did that race car end up on the roof of that house? What was that house doing so close to a race track? Or is it a house? And what happened to the driver?") The pics are thus excellent fuel for the imagination and for further research.

Fans of racing in the 50's and 60's might be disappointed - as I was - that more than half of the pics are from the pre-1950's era. Also, the fact that the pics are not in chronological order - or in any order or grouping - makes it hard to find a particular pic that you might want to show someone.

Still, it's a good price for a book of this size, and the pics are very good, even if weighted towards the old, old days.

I bought this book the last year and I'm very happy with it.

This book is full of very nice, or at least interesting, pics, mostly coming from the first fifty years of motor racing. There are a lot of black & white pictures which would deserve to be not only on this book, but out and hung in a wall :)

If you're looking for something to read about that period this is not your book though, as the only text is the one used to comment each picture briefly.

Apart of the quality of the pics, it has a lot of them indeed. Besides, the book itself is hardcover (I love the way the cover looks) and is well made. So it worths each cent it costs.

In fact, I think is quite cheap, considering the amount of content it has and the price of other books which offer much less than this one.

So, if you're looking a good book of the 'golden years' of motorsports which deserve to be opened from time to time, this one will make you feel captivated again for these cars in the blink of an eye.

Regards

The price tag may seem weighty but actually represents a bargain for an outstanding book packed with nearly three hundred vintage images taken from the last century of auto racing in Motor Racing: The Golden Age. Here you'll find some of the most stunning photos of the last century of racing: many have never been seen before, and accompany original and insightful history. Motor racing fans will find it a top-notch survey leaving little out.

This was a Christmas gift for a true racing mechanic, the head of the engine department for the last of the old timers, Ed Pink. He loved it.