After nearly six decades of evolution the average motor car is a completely dependable unit. What is now lacking is the element of sheer pleasure in driving, of achieving something more than a mere joyrney. This book is concerned with the cars that have been designed, from the beginings of motoring history, to give this special sort of pleasure to their drivers. It is a critical and historical appreciation of the sports car which traces the thread of its development and design. It starts with the 1903, 60h.p. Mrecedes and the 1910, 27/80 h.p. Austro-Daimler through the Bentleys, Sunbeams and Vauxhalls of the Vintage years to the infinitely more powerful aand complicated Alfa Romeos and Bugattis of the thirties. He concludes wwith a discussion of the products of the decade since the war when lessons learnt in aircraft design have been applied to the sports car. This book contains 101 illustrations, which include 36 whole page drawings by John Dunscombe, presenting an historical panorama of sports cars through more than half a century. 208 pages. Paperback edition of the 1957 original. good condition
