MotorBinder: Classic Photographs from the golden age of motor racing
By Roy Spencer
Journey with us now down the dusty pathways of yesteryear when going racing often involved little more than driving to the track, removing anything extraneous from the car, taping over the headlights and sticking on some numbers. This book takes us back to that time when everything was much simpler and more dangerous than today, but those are the primary elements that made it so compelling. Author Spencer only credits himself with contributing the brief text that accompanies the magnificent assemblage of images from the top shooters of the day, but he also selected and collected them, and we should all be happy that he did.
This is a wonderful book where one can spend hours digging through the past to find people, places and cars we may have forgotten, and even if we haven’t, reminding us once again, the way we were. Here’s Phil Hill winning the Del Monte Trophy in the rain at Pebble Beach. There’s Walt Hansgen cross-armed in Briggs Cunningham’s D-Jag, Stirling Moss in the Aston Martin DB1 at Sebring, Lance Reventlow in his brand-new Scarab parked on the main straight at Riverside and Ken Miles in Otto Zipper’s RS60 Porsche at Laguna Seca. Let your imagination run wild, you won’t be disappointed.
Available for US$64 (US$84 for International orders) directly from publisher MotorBinder at www.MotorBinder.com
