GTO 64 - Book by Doug Nye

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Just for fun, a comparison.......
The slipcase of the Doug Nye GTO64 book is a bit heavier, thicker and hopefully generally stronger.

Marcel Massini

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Since I mentioned massive slipcases (or lack thereof) for heavy books here are some pix of books for which I had new specific heavy duty slipcases tailor made by professional Swiss bookbinders.

Marcel Massini

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Price?

 

A postal address. How quaint. Welcome back to the 19th century!

Their web address appears to be a link to different book with no mention of anything else. No details of pricing or means or ordering. Their registered address is somewhere else entirely. I signed up to their newsletter about the Phil Hill book they published and never got any news at all. Even when it was published, 10 years later, still nothing! Funny way to run a business.

 

I am sorry I do not know the price for the GTO64 book by Doug Nye.

Marcel Massini

 

Pretty sure Ben Horton at Hortons Books can get you a copy.

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Marcel Massini

 

I just emailed Doug Nye asking about price and where to buy: I think I will definitely buy this one!

 

Thanks Marcel. Yes, I assume it will turn up at Hortons in due course.

 

Love the slipcase made for the 3-book set 'Motori Ferrari'. I also have these books and would like to have a slipcase for them. Which bookbinder did you use?

Thank you in advance,

Maarten

Ps, Porter GTO book arrived in one piece and for sure going to order the '64 GTO book. Same team behind it as 'inside track' i believe?

 

Doug kindly replied that someone would be in touch and I just got this email from Ian Lambot the publisher:

Dear Marc,

thanks for your kind words about the GTO/64 book. I am expecting the books to arrive in the UK in mid-August and am arranging for the books to be ordered through a new website and also [for clients in France] through Motors-Mania in Pau.

I will forward details of the website when it is up and running, hopefully at the beginning of next week.

all best,


Ian

End of quote.

Will update when I get the info.

 

I have just been directed to this thread. The GTO/64 book - just published, with copies still in the process of shipping from the (Far East) printers - covers the background to the entire GTO family before concentrating the vast majority of its 450-odd pages upon the seven GTO/64s built - four converted from so-called 'Series 1' cars plus the three built as GTO/64s from new. The clue happens to be in the title...

I don't 'do' marketing - we bear these kids and others raise them - but I understood a website marketing the book is about to go live.

Just to provide some background, I was asked to tackle this subject about six years ago and refused - saying that yet another perishing book on the GTOs could not possibly tell us anything new.

Those seeking to commission me persisted, convinced there was more waiting to be unearthed - or corrected.

I finally gave in, and soon discovered they had been right!

in fact the past three years of work to produce this volume has been really interesting and we have unearthed quite a lot of new material, and it has highlighted hitherto largely uncredited players in the cars' design and construction which enable us at last to pay due credit to these individuals' artistry, and to their craftsmanship, and to their memory.

I am also happy to have devoted many pages to the GTO/64s' Italian competition career on the hills and mountains, and that itself has unlocked a wonderful treasury of seldom-seen or previously unpublished photography.

Since some posters here seem more exercised about delays to the publication of other projects in which I have been involved, I can only say that I would rather these books emerge as and when they are as right as I can make them (an objective never yet achieved 100 per cent) and if you can't wait, part of me can only apologise - while another part just says "tough ----".

Fortunately 'Inside Track' - the Phil Hill books - seem to be rated as having been worth waiting for, and I hope that the Mr Ferrari biography will trigger a similar response. And, by the way, I think Vol 1 of my BRM Saga took me 16 years to produce, and Vol 2 another eight. Vol 3 was quick, only about five years. Vol 4 - hmmmm, I'm glad you mentioned that. Moving right along...but, again, they seem to have been rated as having been well worth waiting for.

Producing these works to a standard that I consider reasonable consumes the writers' life, and I have always taken care to devote a smidgeon of my life to my other responsibilities, and particularly to those concerning my family...for which I would hope, if not to be forgiven, to be at least understood...

Have I made myself clear?

DCN

 

Thanks for the update Doug.

You refer to comments I made (slightly tongue-in-cheek) about the length of time your works take to appear and I repeat that they are always excellent and worth waiting for. Albeit that I wish it wasn't necessary to wait quite so long for some of them!!!

 

Motors Mania in Pau (France), mentioned in Marc's post #61, are the ones from whom I got the Testa Rossa 59-60 book and the ordering and shipping were flawless.

 

It's a fantastic book on all seven S2 cars going into great detail on the Engineering, designers, craftsmen, teams, detailed race descriptions in 64/65 and many details that have never been published. This is no run-of-the-mill GTO book! A huge effort by Doug Nye!

 

Thanks for adding your comments to the thread Doug.

As you know, you have a direct line of contact with so many of your book buyers here.

Would love to hear your thoughts and opinions on various book related topics more often.

Cheers

 

Thank you for your interest. I have been a motor racing book collector since I was about ten years old (about twenty years ago then - I wish) and our local mail man and my wife have a running joke in which whenever he says to her "No books for Doug today" - she responds "The next one will absolutely be his LAST".

For a recent issue of the British magazine 'The Automobile' I was invited to present a feature on 'desert island' books, the ones I might like to take ashore for entertainment and enlightenment as the castaway days drag. Now that - from a collection of several thousand books (and tens of thousands of magazines) plus the collections amassed by my old friends and mentors Denis Jenkinson and Geoff Goddard - was NOT an easy assignment.

But I don't spend much time on the internet, except on the 'Autosport' Nostalgia Forum, so forgive me if I don't contribute here often. You all seem to be doing absolutely brilliantly without a big, bald, beardie-weirdie Brit interrupting and using some of your electrons...

DCN

 

I thought Marcel was Swiss... and when did he grow a beard ??

 

Available for pre-order at Horton's (no affiliation) for 280 pounds and shipping.

 

Or from www.motors-mania.com in Pau (France), for EUR 350,- . Shipping is included for Europe and Switzerland.

 

This one sounds like the best of the two GTO books. And Doug Nye always does such nice work on his books. I ordered mine from Motors-Mania as usual.

 

A couple of book sellers are now taking pre orders. Is it worth waiting to pre order on the new website?

 

Ordered from Hortons. Thanks for the tip.