By: Richard Heseltine
During road trip season I try to stop in many book stores and automotive places to find new reading material. This year we were able to attend the Northwest Historics racing event on July 1st, 2012. In addition to being able to introduce the family to vintage racing, I found a bookseller, Vintage Motorbooks, who had a good collection of niceties to pick up. One of my favorite finds was this book:
While we all know about Triumph, MG, Austin and even the smaller marques like TVR, Jensen and Marcos there were a great many automobile builders in the UK in the period between World War II and the introduction of the Mini (which spelled doom for many of these car companies). This book, by Richard Heseltine, devotes pages to each one of these smaller marques. For me, it was a great look into the history of building and selling small cars during the greatest period of club racing. Not only is there a lot of information devotes to the cars themselves, but the author also goes into the story behind the marques, their rise and fall, so to speak. If you are ever looking for a good read, particularly if you're into British or small manufacturers, then I highly recommend adding this one to your library. It's a great one to sit and read, dreaming, perhaps of building your own club racer from scratch! It's available on Amazon:
