Touring Cars By John Tipler
Touring Cars (Collectible First Edition)
The History, Evolution, and High-Octane Drama of Global Saloon Car Racing
The History, Evolution, and High-Octane Drama of Global Saloon Car Racing
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Touring Cars
- Author: John Tipler
- Publisher: Parragon Publishing, Bristol
- Publication Date: 1997
- ISBN-10: 0752522345 / ISBN-13: 9780752522340
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Impression. High-end motorsport history monograph.
- Binding: Hardcover with original publisher's heavy boards, housed in the original illustrated dust jacket under a protective archive cellophane wrapper.
- Physical Format: Large Octavo / Slim Quarto (8vo), 96 pages. Lavishly enhanced with full-colour action photography, championship statistics, and team driver profiles.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+) / Near Mint
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's heavy hardcover boards are exceptionally sharp, flat, and square across all edges. The spine is completely immaculate, straight, robustly bound, and uncreased with perfect structural integrity.
- Interior: Exceptional and pristine. The pages are crisp, bright white, clean, and fully intact. Free from handling soils, fingerprint marks, grease, previous owner gift inscriptions, or dealer pencil notations.
- Protection: This visual motorsport archive has been beautifully maintained and looked after thus far, now preserved under a professional, removable archival-grade cellophane sleeve.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition: The original illustrated dust jacket is complete and unclipped. It exhibits only very slight, microscopic signs of standard shelf storage wear along the extreme corner tips, completely free from deep sun fading, chips, or tears.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1997 by Parragon, John Tipler’s Touring Cars serves as the perfect, highly visual introduction to the adrenaline-fueled world of international touring car racing. The monograph traces the sport's evolution, starting from the early, grassroots days of modified saloon car racing in the 1950s to the emergence of the highly professional, multi-million-pound British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). Tipler expertly maps out the sport's global expansion, outlining its close technical connections with other prestigious European championships and exploring its historical design links with stock car racing (NASCAR) in the United States. Packed with dynamic trackside photography capturing legendary bumper-to-bumper battles between iconic manufacturing marques like Alfa Romeo, BMW, and Ford, this first impression stands as an evocative historical time capsule of late-20th-century motorsport culture.
Published in 1997 by Parragon, John Tipler’s Touring Cars serves as the perfect, highly visual introduction to the adrenaline-fueled world of international touring car racing. The monograph traces the sport's evolution, starting from the early, grassroots days of modified saloon car racing in the 1950s to the emergence of the highly professional, multi-million-pound British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). Tipler expertly maps out the sport's global expansion, outlining its close technical connections with other prestigious European championships and exploring its historical design links with stock car racing (NASCAR) in the United States. Packed with dynamic trackside photography capturing legendary bumper-to-bumper battles between iconic manufacturing marques like Alfa Romeo, BMW, and Ford, this first impression stands as an evocative historical time capsule of late-20th-century motorsport culture.
Author Profile: John Tipler
John Tipler is an exceptionally prominent British motoring journalist, historian, and author who has written over 30 critically acclaimed books on motorsport, sports cars, and iconic automotive marques. Formerly a regular contributor to leading motoring journals and an archivist for prominent racing circuits, Tipler is globally celebrated for his narrative pace, deep reliance on interview transcripts with legendary racing drivers, and thorough technical accuracy. His mid-to-late 1990s monographs remain highly prized within private libraries globally as accessible, authoritative references on modern racing history.
John Tipler is an exceptionally prominent British motoring journalist, historian, and author who has written over 30 critically acclaimed books on motorsport, sports cars, and iconic automotive marques. Formerly a regular contributor to leading motoring journals and an archivist for prominent racing circuits, Tipler is globally celebrated for his narrative pace, deep reliance on interview transcripts with legendary racing drivers, and thorough technical accuracy. His mid-to-late 1990s monographs remain highly prized within private libraries globally as accessible, authoritative references on modern racing history.
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