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Snake Bit: Carroll Shelby's Controversial Series 1 Sports Car

Door Eric Davison

Categorie
Auto's & Autotechniek
Boeknummer
#326200-XC22
Titel
Snake Bit: Carroll Shelby's Controversial Series 1 Sports Car
Auteur
Davison, Eric
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Motorbooks International
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
076031781X
ISBN13
9780760317815
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blue boards, dust jacket, illusrated with colour photographe, 8vo.
Samenvatting

What Carroll Shelby wanted was a 2,400-pound sports car sheathed in carbon fiber that was the fastest road car in the world. What he got was quite a different matter! The Series 1 was one of the most highly anticipated sports cars in living memory. It was a magazine cover story seven times and countless more articles were written about it. The car was eventually produced early in 2000-but it reached its owners well behind schedule, at a higher price, and in smaller numbers than first projected. The story of the Shelby Series 1 "is about everything that could possibly go wrong and then did." It's a drama of gigantic and aspiring egos, petty prerogatives, awesome talent, bureaucratic bungling, and brilliant engineering. Of the many cars Shelby created over his career, none was as
... (Lees verder) controversial as the Series 1. Snake Bit - an apt description of what happened to anyone and everyone involved in the project - is required and captivating reading for the thousands of Carroll Shelby fans throughout the world.
Pagina's
240
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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