Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories
50 Fascinating Lives with Cars
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The History Press Ltd
Published:11th Jul '24
Should be back in stock very soon
50 surprising lives of significant figures, obsessives, movers and shakers of the car world and motoring history
‘An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong.’ – Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & Steam
Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories is a whistle-stop tour of fifty fascinating petrolheads and how they changed car culture for good
Meet: The Prince of Darkness! The Sweeney’s ace stunt driver! Renault’s doyenne of colours and fabrics!
Discover: A pathetic steam car! Metal underpants! The unseen brilliance of Jaguars!
And find out exactly how one man adored his Volvo so much that he drove it around the world 120 times to cruise into the record books.
'An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which like human relationships can go badly wrong'. Christian Wolmar
Book of the Month 'As the subtitle suggests, this is a compendium of all those shiny little stories that Chapman has collected like a magpie over the years.' - Classic & Sports Car magazine
ISBN: 9781803995496
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