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Hell no, my library would be a ton of weight!

Plus they'd be distracted by the hundreds of die casts and be jamming them into their pockets for the kids!!

I'm really more concerned that a fire in the place would trigger the sprinklers...."game over" at that point.

Hard to say what a "smash and grab" at my place would net, probably the Ludwig set in the living room....joke would be on them, at the Pawn Shop.

Drums = zero Pawn value.

 

This is LONG overdue about one of the great personalities of the day!

*whipping out Debit Card*

Thanks!!

 

It's sold out now....LOL!

Published in 2006.

 

Hi there

This is my first post, so let me introduce myself quickly: I am a student from Switzerland, so my english is not that good. I am a car enthusiast, as is my father. I am especially interested in Italian classic cars in the era from 1950 - 1970.

Some time ago I began to discover the wonderful cars of Ferrari. My favorites are the Ferrari road cars from 1950-1960 (195, 212, 375, 250 Europa GT...).

Meanwhile I've read some general books about Ferrari, which covered all models from 1950-2010. Now I am searching a book, which gives some more infos about the above mentioned models, because in the books I read so far, those beautiful cars of the 50s were only mentioned marginally.

The book should be written in german or english.

I hope someone can recommend me a book. (Please let me know if this is not the right place to post my question.)

Regards

 

No this is a good place!! Welcome!

I like "Red Arrows" the story of the cars and drivers of the Mille miglia (ending in 1957).

I have recently bought another great one about the Targa Florio of the same period, I'll check the title info for you and post (or it may be earlier in this thread, even)

The Automobilia seriographs are really well done (but getting expensive) on such individual models as:

375MM
250TR
335S

HTH
Alan
Houston Texas

 

Just received this #21.I am an East Coast person and grew up with Sebring and Bridgehampton., Lime Rock and Thompson in the 1950s and early 1960.Even so this is an extraudinary volume.For anyone who experienced the West Coast during this period, 1950s pre roll bar, it will bring back those days as no other can.Not only the pictures but the comments relating to each photo are excelent. Movie stars, crashes, stock MGs to full race home built specials and a lot of Ferraris. It's all there in 700 pages. just one man's opinion tongascrew

 

Just heard from a collector in Italy: a magnificent Ferrari Yearbook collection on ebay.com
From the early fifties on. One of the very best.
Regards,
R2

 

Here is the link :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FERRARI-ORIGINAL-YEARBOOK-ANNUARIO-COLLECTION-1952-1970-/170703569757?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27beb9c35d

I just need the 1952 and 1953 ones + the 1951 not in the list...

 

Still searching for 1955 and older... Isn't this a well-known seller? From the Swaters collection??

 

The Italian collector who informed me was talking about shipping with UPS.
As well as the possibility of local pickup.

 

Decided that since I never seem to enjoy any of my collections, it is time to let them go to someone that would enjoy them more than I do. This particular book is important to me, I realize the reason I do not enjoy it is that the one person that autographed the book has since passed way too young.

That would be Andrea Pinninfarina. Just an incredible warm human. So sad for his loss. He signed this book for me (to Ron) at the introduction of JG's P 4/5, along with Jason Castriota and Ken Okuyama. I do not remember the 4th signature, although I believe it be a very important person named Sal that works with JG. Maybe?

So it goes on Ebay.
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I got the book entitled Enzo Ferrari's Secret War but complained to the author that
I'd like to see some copies of original correspondence from the Brits, Germans, Italians, Americans anybody saying he was on our side, not building machines for the Axis. Plus he throws in some stuff on NZ after the war, which is all well and good but not related to the title or theme.

Also maybe there will have to be a new category for fiction, nominating FERRARI HUNTERS, a novel (www.albaco.com) I think Burt Levy also has a Ferrari novel, but don't remember the name, a Ferrari is on the cover

 

I don't fancy myself a book collector, but if I see a neat old book at a fair price, I'll pick it up.

I found four such books, in excellent condition, at a vendor at the Petit Le Mans on Friday. I thought that $160 combined for these was a reasonable price. The price tags were collected on purchase, so I don't recall how much each individual book was. Any comments on these?
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I visited a friend recently who has a large book collection, and I spotted this book, a title I had not known about before. After looking through it, I decided that I wanted to get my own copy, so I ordered it through Alibris. I'm not sure that it is still in print, but the copy I acquired was brand new and in shrink wrap.

This is a massive book that tells the story of all of the Ferrari Grand Prix cars via some 900 black-&-white and color photos. Each model's history is told through brief text, followed by extensive photo captions in both Italian and English. There is a table of technical specifications and line drawings for each car; the latter are more numerous for the later cars. The translation is not perfect but is quite acceptable. Appendices list the Ferrari drivers and constructors titles and all of the wins by year. One might have hoped for lists of all the entries with chassis numbers, but the book does not go that far. Its main failing is simply the fact that it only covers through 2002, so a newer edition would be welcome. And it only covers the GP cars; other single-seaters like F2 and Tasman cars are not included (aside from 1952-1953, when GPs were run with F2 cars).
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Nice.

 

I just put my copy of Making a Difference by Massini on EBay. It is in great shape.

 

As a fan of the V12 F1 cars I had to have this. Specially for only €44

Natan Tazelaar
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Scooped up these two as well, for €89 each. Rather cheap if you look at some of the prices on Ebay and Amazon.

Natan Tazelaar
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I still need three issues (1, 10 and 16) to complete the set.
Any help is welcome.

Natan Tazelaar
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The French book chain FNAC have some at 50 Euros or so each (see www.fnac.com) but I will guess probably not the ones you are missing - the ones not showing as in stock they cannot actually get. It is never that easy! Amazon did have most of the issues brand new at good prices until quite recently. I know because I bought one of each that they had.

Also tthe Italian book store Gilena at www.gilena.it as well. They are showing 1 & 10 in stock but not as good prices as FNAC although that's no use if FNAC don't have the ones you are missing.

Jonathan

 

I recently bought a few from Amazon as well. Thanks for the links. I will check to see what they have in stock.

Natan Tazelaar

 

Still a bit expensive. Price paid is on the high site.

http://www.editions-palmier.com/boutique_us/recherche_resultats.cfm?code_lg=lg_us&mot=cavalleria

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