Topic: Richard Heseltine "Specialist Sports Cars"

[Arunas]

Title: Specialist Sportscars. The good, the bad and ugly of the very British breed
Author: Richard Heseltine
Published: 2001
Pages: 152
Language: English
ISBN: 1 85960 690 3

About: This book written by Richard Heseltine well describes 36 British manufacturers among which are those well known brands like Lotus, Ginetta, Marcos and more obscure like Britannia, Dial, Butterfield and others. All mentioned makers are well illustrated (except only for Emery - no pictures). Each description gives a quite detailed view to company's history, people involved, cars and projects created. If you are looking for a book about very obscure cars, it is not a book I could offer, but if you are interested in British kit car scene in general - this books is a good item for your library.

[ImpishGrin]

I can add that it's not only about kit cars. Cars such as Gordon-Keeble, Ikenga or Britannia GT were fully built sports cars. This is a book in general about the small-scale sports car production in UK after the war (mostly 50s and 60s). Its subtitle is "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of a Very British Breed" and that sums up the contents pretty well.

Furtehrmore, this is a really in-depth book, one that disposes of many myths or helf-truths surrounding the described makes.