Norman Burr

John Chatham - 'Mr Big Healey' (eBook, ePUB)

The Official Biography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The authorised biography of one of the best-liked bad boys in British motorsport, John Chatham - driver, racer, repairer, rebuilder, tuner, trader and lover of Austin-Healeys.
John is so synonymous with Austin-Healeys that the most famous racing Healey in the world, DD300, is so well-known mainly because John campaigned it for decades, notching up tens of thousands of racing miles. But his career embraces far more than one car, and until this biography no-one had attempted to fill in the gaps.
With 150 photographs, many previously unpublished, this is an important and entertaining account of one of motorsport's biggest characters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787115347
• Artikelnr.: 56957309

Autorenporträt

Trained as an engineer at Rolls-Royce and Bath University, lifelong petrolhead Norman Burr has always worked in specialist publishing, and in 1997 made his first contribution to motorsport writing with Living with Speed, an acclaimed book chronicling a year in the life of hillclimb legend Roy Lane. John Chatham - 'Mr Big Healey' is his first fully fledged biography, which draws not only on the recollections of John Chatham and those around him, but also on Burr's own experiences, for as a student in the Bristol area in the early 1970s, he knew John at the peak of his driving career.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Early years: life before the driving licence
2 First Healeys: SAL 75 and DGL666
3 DD300 and the Modsports years
4 The MGC and the Targa Florio
5 DD300 returns
6 Team Healey
7 The London-Mexico
8 The Conclave Challenge
9 Tailpiece: John Chatham in (semi) retirement