Details - Legendary sports cars up close - by Wilfried Müller

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Details - Legendary sports cars up close / 1965 - 1969 - by Wilfried Müller

Awarded 2nd place in the ADAC Motorwelt Autobuch Preis 2016 in the Motorsport/Racing category.

Ferrari 330P4, Ford GT40, Chaparral 2D, Porsche 917, Mirage M1, BMW Monti, Abarth, Alpine, Lola, Maserati, Matra, Serenissima - each of these sports cars and prototypes is a legend today. In the late 1960s, they marked the extreme limits of what was technically feasible - and sometimes what really wasn't possible. In the search for tenths of a second, the horsepower figures grew into unimagined realms. Aerodynamics became the magic word, with the magicians in the wind tunnels devising many a daring trick. The materials from which tubular frames, monocoques and bodies - as well as brake discs - were soon created were also exotic.

It was all about world and European championships at famous races such as Le Mans or Daytona and the classics in Monza, Spa, on the Nürburgring and on the mountain.

This book portrays around 60 racing cars in detail, which competed in the one-make world championship and in the explosive sprints of the European Hillclimb Championship from 1965 to 1969. From the Abarth OT Sport Spider to the Porsche 917, they all appear with their story and around 350 photos, most of which have never been published before. Details - Legendary sports cars up close’ is a declaration of love to these automotive beauties and their extreme technology, which is only revealed by looking under the aluminium or plastic skin. Never before has the technology of the great cars of this fascinating era been examined in such detail.

• Language: German & English
• Year of publication: 2015, 1st edition
• Publisher: McKlein Publishing, Cologne
• Format: bound / hardcover, in slipcase
• ISBN: 978-3-927458-76-5
• Number of pages: 400 / with 349 partly large-format colour and black-and-white photos
• Dimensions (incl. slipcase): approx. 30 x 30.5 x 4.8 cm
• Weight: 3810 g