Raymond Mays’ Magnificent Obsession

Raymond Mays’ Magnificent Obsession
Author: Bryan Apps
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre:
ISBN: 1787115526

This biography of Raymond Mays includes complete histories of ERA and BRM, including race summaries, a foreword by Mays himself. Personal letters addressed to the author from Alfred Owen, David Brown, Tony Rudd, Rivers Fletcher, Bob Gerard, Ken Richardson, Juan Fangio, and many others add intimacy to the story. Illustrated with over 100 of the author`s colour paintings.

Blossom

Blossom
Author: Andrew Vachss
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2001-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375719059

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a living. In Blossom, an old cellmate has summoned Burke to a fading Indiana mill town, where a young boy is charged with a crime he didn't commit and a twisted serial sniper has turned a local lovers' lane into a killing field. And it's here that Burke meets Blossom, the brilliant, beautiful young woman who has her own reasons for finding the murderer—and her own idea of vengeance. Dense with atmosphere, savagely convincing, this is Vachss at his uncompromising best.

To the Manor Born

To the Manor Born
Author: Baroness Elizabeth Belinda Douglas-Scott-Montagu Montagu of Beaulieu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1971
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

The Gold Cadillac

The Gold Cadillac
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1998-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0140389636

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A drive South becomes dangerous for ‘lois and her family. 'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny new car; only suspicion and anger for the black man behind the wheel. For the first time in their lives, Lois and her sister know what it's like to feel scared because of the color of their skin. "A personal, poignant look at a black child's first experience with institutional racism."--The New York Times

MG

MG
Author: John Tipler
Publisher: Crowood Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1995
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781852239237

MG is renowned as one of the world's most famous sports marques. This book relates its complete story, starting with the 1923 two-seater, and MG's early triumph, the Midget, with its racing success. The Magnas and Magnettes followed, leading into the post-war TC Midget, and the successful MGA and the MGB. Though MG fell victim to corporate politics in the late 60s, it made a comeback with the MGF in the early 90s.

Saving Jaguar

Saving Jaguar
Author: John Egan
Publisher: Porter Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781907085741

This book tells the story of how John Egan gradually overcame the odds and, piece by piece, rebuilt this great company, winning over the workforce, the overseas dealers and, most important of all, the customers. Working with Margaret Thatcher and her Government, Egan and his team of managers overcame every obstacle, every set-back, every challenge. Again and again, it looked impossible. Yet using innovative techniques, intelligence, eloquence, openness, motor racing and much more, they saved this most charismatic company which has created some of the finest and most loved motor cars of all time.It is an amazing story that will appeal equally to car enthusiasts, those in business and readers interested in social history.

Weird Cars

Weird Cars
Author: Stephen Vokins
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-18
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780857332370

This marvellous book, now updated as a second edition in a new paperback format, is a celebration of eccentric cars in all shapes and sizes – some of the most ugly, crazily designed and downright awkward vehicles of all time. Where else would you find, in one book, descriptions and photographs of automotive oddities as diverse as the Gaylord Gentleman, Suminoe Flying Feather or Zil?