Morgan Winner at Le Mans 1962 the Story of Tok258

Author: Ronnie Price
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780922195
Category : 24 Heures du Mans (Automobile race)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In 1962 a small Morgan sports car TOK258 created history by defeating factory teams run by leading international manufacturers in the famous 24 hour race at the Le Mans circuit. The car crossed the finishing line on Sunday 24th June having completed 2256 miles in the twenty four hours from the start time on Saturday afternoon to win the 2 litre GT class. Although privately owned, the car was entered and supported by the Morgan Motor Company and driven by Chris Lawrence and Richard Shepherd-Barron. This new colour 50th anniversary edition of the original book by Ronnie Price, now with racing driver Richard Shepherd-Barron as co-author, covers the concept, preparation, and official testing at the circuit. It gives a blow-by-blow account of the race, with anecdotes, memorabilia, material and photographs only recently made available.

Morgan at Le Mans

Author: David Dowse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752434889
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A history of Morgan, a quintessentially British car maker, racing at Le Mans.

One Off

Author: Anatoly Arutunoff
Publisher: TPR Incorporated
ISBN: 9780929758251
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Amateur road racer, raconteur and car guy extraordinaire, Anatoly Arutunoff tells a lifetime of his favorite true first person stories. From his youth in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to participation at the real Targa Florio, to eventually winning the SCCA runoffs in his Morgan 4/4, to more recent times on the historic rally circuit Toly makes you think you were there sharing all the adventures and camaraderie. There are intriguing family moments, the exuberance of youth and brushes with greats such as Redman, Clark and Moss plus many lesser known players from the past sixty years who collectively molded the sports car culture that has always surrounded the author. Written in an uncomplicated and light-hearted style the reader will either renew a relationship or discover a new friend in a man who suggests, “All the car stuff I’ve done is a sort of cross-section of what you would have done, if you’d been young in the sixties and had the money.” Ride with Toly on the roads and racetracks in America and Europe and share in an experience that is truly “One Off!”

Porsche at Le Mans

Author: Glen Smale
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 0760369054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Looking back on 70 years of the legendary marque at one of the world's greatest races, Porsche at Le Mans is authoritatively written and packed with photos, history, and results.

TOK258: Morgan Winner at Le Mans

Author: Ronnie Price
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780922213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79

I Am Morgan le Fay

Author: Nancy Springer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101142626
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
Fans who love King Arthur's legend, Camelot, Merlin, and similar tales will love reading about Morgan le Fay. Morgan is a willful, mischievous girl with mismatched eyes of emerald and violet. A girl of magic, whose childhood ends when King Uther Pendragon murders her father and steals away her mother. Then Pendragon dies and, in a warring country with no one to claim the throne, there are many who want Morgan dead. But Morgan has power, and magic. She is able to change the course of history, to become other, to determine her own fate-and, thus the fate of Britain. She will become Morgan le Fay. "Springer wields language like a sword, and both blood and flowers spring to these pages in vivid hues." (Booklist, starred review)

Morgan 100 Years

Author: Charles Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843172673
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This wonderful book celebrates 100 years of Morgan cars, tracing the history of Britain's most prestigious motor company, the only car maker in the world to survive for a century under the ownership of its founding family. This incredibly successful marque boasts wonderfully loyal enthusiasts who lovingly restore older cars as well as continuing to support new development. Covering the Morgan story from 1909 to the present day and drawing on archive material from the Morgan factory in Worcestershire, where the cars are still lovingly handcrafted, Morgan - 100 Years also includes information on the development of the Aero 8, the first totally new car since 1936; Morgan's heroic Le Mans race campaigns; great stories from Morgan owners and the Morgan Company's vision for the future. Telling the story of this prestigious sports car manufacturer in a unique and entertaining style, Morgan - 100 Years is bound to delight all Morgan enthusiasts.

Since You've Been Gone

Author: Morgan Matson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete. But with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a tryNand has the most unexpected summer ever.

Porsche 917

Author:
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
ISBN: 9781583881804
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
After knocking on the door for decades, Germany's Porsche finally stepped into the big time of international auto racing with its Type 917 in 1969. Its phenomenal air-cooled flat-12 engine powered the 917 to 15 wins in world sports-car championship races from 1969 to 1971, after which it was outlawed by a rules change. Included were two wins at Le Mans in 1970 and '71. First built in a series of 25 coupes that Volkswagen chief Ferdinand Piech called the biggest risk he's ever taken in business, the 917 was raced in both short- and long-tailed forms, pumping out 630 bhp by 1971. It went on to even greater glory in turbocharged roadster form in Can-Am racing as the 917/10, series champion in 1972. In '73 the incredible 1,000-horsepower 917/30 Porsche dominated the Can-Am series in the hands of Mark Donohue, who called it "the perfect racing car". The 917 stands proud in Porsche's history as the costly and daring machine that decisively ended the company's underdog status in international motor sport.

Morgan – An English Enigma

Author: Martyn Webb
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 0719842506
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1062

Book Description
This books tells the amazing story of the Morgan Motor Company, from the primitive, but very successful cyclecars of Edwardian times, through to the iconic British sports cars of the Classic period in the 1960s. Morgan defied conventions, survived economic hardships, resisted take-over bids and carried on in its inimitable way, hand-crafting 'proper' cars out of the historic row of workshops in the spa town of Malvern. Morgan – An English Enigma takes an in-depth look at the Morgan Motor Company during the Vintage and Classic periods, benefitting from access to previously unseen documents and drawings, and featuring 500 images, over half of which have never before been published. This fascinating story will appeal to those with an interest in motoring history, the motor sport enthusiast and anyone who appreciates fine British sports cars.