| Motor Racing: The Golden Age: Extraordinary Images from 1900 to 1970 (Golden Age S.) | 
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Sales Rank: 153994
Category: Book
Author: John Tennant
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Studio: Cassell Illustrated
Manufacturer: Cassell Illustrated
Label: Cassell Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.3
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 1844032035
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781844032037
ASIN: 1844032035
Publication Date: March 28, 2006
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Product Description
This book features extraordinary images of motor racing which give a unique insight into this most dangerous and exhilarating of sports. "Motor Racing The Golden Age" is a unique collection of over 275 images from the last century of racing. Following the design, format and idea of the successful "Football: The Golden Age", this book celebrates all aspects of the motor racing world - the drivers, the fans, the race tracks, the cars, the crashes and pit-stops. It goes further to look at the history behind motor racing - the hill climbs, rallies through cities and even the land speed records. "Motor Racing: The Golden Age" remembers when the cars were fast, the drivers were furious and the photographers the bravest men on the track - a true golden age of both sport and photography.
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Good book if you only look for beautiful pics of classic cars October 22, 2008
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 expert was pleased January 6, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Motor racing fans will find it a top-notch survey leaving little out September 9, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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