STIRLING MOSS SCRAPBOOK 1929-1954

Relive the races and wins through Moss's own eyes with all the landmark races including Monaco Grand Prix, Le Mans 24-Hours, Mille Miglia, Monte Carlo Rally, Sebring 12-Hours, German Grand Prix, Goodwood 9-Hours, Tourist Trophy and more. The very name Stirling Moss conjures up speed, excitement, heroics and adventure and this is the fascinating story of his early years and his meteoric rise to fame. Based entirely on his own archives and personal scrapbooks, diaries and albums, this book is unique. Never before has so much intriguing material been published on arguably the greatest racing driver of all time. And we have two volumes (the second code 94959) featuring on the triumphant year of 1955. Here is the full story of the Grand Prix racing, the sports and sports racing cars, the rallying exploits, the little 500 racers, the record-breaking, the girls, the friends. There are great names like Fangio, Farina, Ascari, Hawthorne, Collins and many of the most evocative racing cars - C-types and D-types, Maseratis, Coopers, HWMs, Kiefts, XK120s, Frazer Nashes, Mercedes-Benz W196, BRM. Moss is quoted extensively as is his famous rallying sister Pat Moss-Carlsson and they relive and describe this formative, challenging period in his life, early successes, frustration of bad cars and retirements, the great cars, circuits and rivals. It brings alive all the colour, atmosphere, the danger, the girls and the fun of this wonderful period in motorsport. The huge landscape pages are adorned with hundreds and hundreds of archive photographs, many in sepia, black and white, colour plus clippings and front page headlines, headlines of articles underlined in pen like "19 year old Cooper expert Stirling Moss", a calendar of events, postcards, excerpts from letters, publicity work - this really puts us in pole position. 160 landscape pages, 12 x 14" and over 500 images and photographs.