Sub-titled 'The Joys of Classic Motorsport', Alan Anderson is a well known motoring journalist and self-confessed petrolhead who has written for virtually all the main car and motorsport magazines. Anyone who has attended classic events such as the Goodwood Revival, Silverstone Festival and Race Retro will have come away enthralled and captivated by the sights, sounds and smells of retro racing and rallying. Before the millennium, motorsport was simpler and cheaper especially in the case of the amateur club scene. Taken up by many dads, this book celebrates that golden era when you could compete successfully with the ordinary car you drove to work. This book highlights the grassroots British car competition from the Second World War up to the mid 1990s with rallying, racing, hill climbing, sprints and so on, with a favourite 50 cars that made their mark in the sport and a little-known factoid for each one. Here are the circuits like Brands Hatch, Snetterton in Norfolk and Oulton Park in Cheshire opened in the mid 1950s and the Jaguars, Minis, big fun with an MG Midget and all with limited modifications and no upgrades for the shock absorbers. But some tyres were shamefully planed down to sharpen up the handling! Over 100 super colour photos, many in colour, 160 page softback.
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