On Aug 25, 2005, at 6:38 PM, keithw wrote:
The authors were Anne Taylor and Fern Mosk.
Publishers were Simon & Schuster, N.Y. 1956.
Subtitled: Or the confessions of a sports car addict.
It has a Liberary of Congerss Caatalog numb, but apparently that
was prior to iSBNs.
The back dust cover displays a photograph of the two authors in a
1933 RHD MG L3 Magnette, supercharged, 1087 cc.
What a car!
In the story, Prudence, a college girl, literally builds a
sportscar in her dorm room!
The book is accompanied by lots of well done line drawing sketches
of various sports cars from "back then."
I mean, really! 1956! Sports car nirvana age...
My first sports car was a Triumph TR-3!
Lots of memories from back then. I was totally immersed in SCCA
activities, crewing and racing and driving my TR around the
countryside!
1956 is a little before my time. But I had a '61 Alfa Romeo Guilietta
1300 and a 1960(?) Triumph TR2a along the way, along with '66 MG B,
'66 Jaguar E-Type, '71 Alfa Romeo 1750 Spider Veloce, '64 Lamborghini
350GT, 1969 Datsun 2000, and a few others I've probably forgotten by
now...
Cars were wonderful playthings back then. Now they're too much of a
pain in the butt to deal with. I still love my FrankenSpider, however.
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/vehicles/fs-3468.htm
Godfrey
