These bizarre true stories of collectors and their cars is "a whole lot of fun" (The Virginian Pilot). Have you heard of the fellow who squirrelled away dozens of Chevelles, Camaros, and other classic muscle cars in semi-trailers? How about the president of Shakespeare fishing rods, who sold thirty Bugattis for a mere $85,000? What about the English nobleman who cut up and buried his Ferrari hoard in an elaborate insurance scam? Or how about the Duesenberg abandoned in a Manhattan parking garage for decades only to be uncovered by Jay Leno? Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their hobby by digging into their favorite marques, chasing parts, swapping stories, and generally living the car-guy lifestyle. Some, however, step over that fine line between enthusiasm and obsession—and that's where these legendary car-collector stories come from. In Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting, Keith Martin and the staff of Sports Car Market Magazine recount the wildest, most eccentric, over-the-top stories of collectors and their collections. "This likable book serves as a ‚ÄòRipley's Believe It or Not!' for car obsessives." —The New York Times
... Putnam Challenge Me the Race byMike Hawthorn, 1959, Kimber Death Race by Mark Kahn, 1976, Barrie & Ienkins Limited Fangio: My RacingLzfe by Juan Manuel Fangio with Robert Carozzo, 1990, Patrick Stephens jaguar Sports Racing 6'?
Whispering rocks. Deadening fog. Ghost pirates. Lonely islands. THINGS in the woods. This is the great state of Maine, home of Stephen King, land of the Great Northern Woods and all the mystery that lies within their dark footprint.
True, wacky stories about cars--famous cars, unusual cars, vintage cars, impractical cars, and others.
Sometimes poignant, always witty, these tales of unexplained phenomena, mythical beasts, and unusual incidents cover ground from the Grand Canyon to the Florida Everglades, and they include such hair-raising incidents as a chance encounter ...
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Gibson was Waterman's childhood friend, born the same year and raised, like Waterman, on Hammond Street in Boston's suburb ... “He called them invalids,” says Gibson's son K. H. Gibson III (Kirk to his friends), who is today a petroleum ...
A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.
Seventy eerie, bewildering, and fascinating real-life stories--from the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa to appearances by Bigfoot; from ghosts that haunt to psychics who help; from UFO sightings to ships that...
... 1991 , after typing on the computer screen a headline from her “ strange but true ” newspaper clippings collection . “ There was one clipping , MAN KILLED BY TURNIP THROWN FROM CAR , that was by my desk for a long time . Why ?
The stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true.