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Genre/Form: | Biographies Anecdotes History Biography Anecdotes |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Keith Martin; Linda Clark, (Writer on automobiles) |
ISBN: | 0760353603 9780760353608 |
OCLC Number: | 975447662 |
Notes: | First published in 2013 by Motorbooks. |
Description: | 256 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Fame & Fortune -- The $16.4 Million Ferrari -- The O'Quinn Collection -- The Bill Cosby Super Snake -- Jay Leno's Duesenberg -- The Real Chitty Bang Bang -- Fraudulent Lord Brocket -- Steve McQueen's Sunglasses -- Lord Brocket Strikes Again -- The Cobra Rises -- The $4.4 Million Barn Find Bugatti -- A Car of a Different Color -- The Jeffries Porsche -- [2] Wrecks & Ruins -- The Buried Belvedere -- Fiery History of the Jaguar XKSS -- A Princely Collection Rots -- The Forgotten Ferrari GTO -- The Lost Norseman -- The Bugatti in the Lake -- The Veyron in the Lake -- Pikeville Purgatory -- The Junkyard Ferrari -- [3] Stranger than Fiction -- The Bhagwan's 93 Rolls-Royces -- The One-Piece-at-a-Time Cadillac -- The Anything Cars -- The Knee-Steering Besasie Cars -- Portuguese Barn Find -- The Devin-body Ferrari -- The Lost & Found Aston Martin DB4 -- Buried in Ferrari -- The Purloined 500K -- Lance Miller's Quest -- The Pontiac Ghost Cars -- The Green Bay Parts Packer -- Trainload of Bugattis -- The Amphicar -- The Bubble-screened Boondoggle. |
Responsibility: | by Keith Martin and Linda Clark. |
Abstract:
Collects true stories about eccentric car collectors, including a take of an English nobleman who buries his horde of Ferraris in an insurance scam and a woman who loved her car so much she wished to be buried in it.
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