Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories Giles Chapman

Name: Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories By Giles Chapman
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Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories by Giles Chapman

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50 surprising lives of significant figures, obsessives, movers and shakers of the car world and motoring history

Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories Summary

Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories: 50 Fascinating Lives with Cars by Giles Chapman

An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong. Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & Steam

Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories is a whistle-stop tour of fifty fascinating petrolheads and how they changed car culture for good

Meet: The Prince of Darkness! The Sweeneys ace stunt driver! Renaults doyenne of colours and fabrics!

Discover: A pathetic steam car! Metal underpants! The unseen brilliance of Jaguars!

And find out exactly how one man adored his Volvo so much that he drove it around the world 120 times to cruise into the record books.

Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories Reviews

'An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which like human relationships can go badly wrong'. Christian Wolmar

About Giles Chapman

GILES CHAPMAN is an award-winning motoring writer. He has edited and written for numerous car magazines, and contributed to national newspapers. His books include My Dad Had One Of Those, Chapmans Car Compendium, Cars We Loved in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and 100 Cars Britain Can Be Proud Of. He lives in Kent.

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NGR9781803995496

ISBN 13

9781803995496

ISBN 10

1803995491

Title

Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories: 50 Fascinating Lives with Cars by Giles Chapman

Author

Giles Chapman

Condition

New

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Hardback

Publisher

The History Press Ltd

Year published

2024-07-11

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