Picture 1 of 5
Stock photo
Picture 1 of 5
Stock photo
BMW Ultimate Drives : Volume 1: 1937-1982 by Jeremy Walton (2012, Hardcover)
Suediaforever (1920)
99.3% positive Feedback
Price:
US $19.99
Approximately£15.05
+ $33.44 postage
Returns:
30 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
Condition:
Featuring some of the finest original photography and all-new text, BMW Ultimate Drives Vol 1 eschews familiar historical descriptions and focuses squarely on driving experiences as author Jeremy Walton whisks the reader on a high-octane journey through BMW's history from 1937 to 1982. Re-assessing a carefully-chosen selection of the company's most iconic machines, Walton puts you in the driver's seat as he goes into unparalleled depth about what it's like to steer such seductively rare combinations of V8 power and coach building art as the legendary 507, the classic 3200CS, road and race versions of the E9 Coupes and pre-war greats like the iconic 328 and its darker-horse sibling, the 327/28 Coupe.
- Buy it nowBMW Ultimate Drives: Vol 1: 1937-1982 by Walton Jeremy. Hardcover NEW
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherCoterie Press The Limited
ISBN-101902351495
ISBN-139781902351490
eBay Product ID (ePID)117239729
Product Key Features
Book TitleBmw Ultimate Drives : Volume 1: 1937-1982
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAutomotive / General
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenreTransportation
AuthorJeremy Walton
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight67.2 Oz
Item Length12 in
Item Width12 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal629.2222
SynopsisPacking BMW's dream machines from 75mph pre-war icons, to the 230mph supercars of the 21st century into an 80,000+ word book project, full of the finest original photographs, was a long held fantasy of author Jeremy Walton. His aim was to move his work from the earlier 'Unbeatable BMW' racing tales, to how it feels to drive the best of the best from BMW. All without relying on rehashing factory photographs and PR editorial. As the project evolved, it became clear that there was just too much material to put into one book, without having to edit out way too much excellent material. Thus, Ultimate Drives became two books, with volume 1 featuring BMWs from the years 1937-82 and Volume 2 models between 1983-2011. BMW-Ultimate Drives (Volumes 1 & 2) is written by an independent author who has brought benchmark BMW work to a global audience since 1972, when a 24-hour motor race result in a BMW 3.0 CS changed his life. The contents were hotly debated, the dream factor was deemed important. When worldwide celebrities like Elvis Presley buy BMW (a fifties 507 during his 1958-60 German military service), we thought you should know how it feels to steer such seductively rare combinations of V8 power and the coachbuilders art. So we have some ultra rare--handmade by the hundred--fifties star cars from 503 to 507 and sixties 3200CS, the latter previewing road and race versions of the elegant road (CS/CSi) and race (CSL) BMW coup s of 1969-75 vintage. As you'll see by whisking through the contents of Volume 1, Jeremy Walton and chief photographer William Taylor went for a bit of both, from affordable, to million dollar babies. Although BMW manufactured 15 horsepower Austin Sevens under license from the British in late 1927, desirability of the Dixi then BMW-branded machines shot up with the 1934 debut of the 315/1 sports 2-seater which gave the European establishment such a team-prize winning shock on Alpine rallies of the thirties. That simple but efficient 315 derivative led to the legendary 328 6-cylinders and 80bhp. These 2-liters became world class benchmarks from a debut Nurburgring victory. We have driven examples both as traditional open sports cars of shattering 21st century value to the underwritten but hugely significant 327/28 coupe, which was the glamorous forerunner to a line of postwar BMW coup s that continue today., Packing BMW's dream machines from 75mph pre-war icons, to the 230mph supercars of the 21st century into an 80,000+ word book project, full of the finest original photographs, was a long held fantasy of author Jeremy Walton. His aim was to move his work from the earlier 'Unbeatable BMW' racing tales, to how it feels to drive the best of the best from BMW. All without relying on rehashing factory photographs and PR editorial. As the project evolved, it became clear that there was just too much material to put into one book, without having to edit out way too much excellent material. Thus, Ultimate Drives became two books, with volume 1 featuring BMWs from the years 1937-82 and Volume 2 models between 1983-2011. BMW-Ultimate Drives (Volumes 1 & 2) is written by an independent author who has brought benchmark BMW work to a global audience since 1972, when a 24-hour motor race result in a BMW 3.0 CS changed his life. The contents were hotly debated, the dream factor was deemed important. When worldwide celebrities like Elvis Presley buy BMW (a fifties 507 during his 1958-60 German military service), we thought you should know how it feels to steer such seductively rare combinations of V8 power and the coachbuilders art. So we have some ultra rare--handmade by the hundred--fifties star cars from 503 to 507 and sixties 3200CS, the latter previewing road and race versions of the elegant road (CS/CSi) and race (CSL) BMW coupés of 1969-75 vintage. As you'll see by whisking through the contents of Volume 1, Jeremy Walton and chief photographer William Taylor went for a bit of both, from affordable, to million dollar babies. Although BMW manufactured 15 horsepower Austin Sevens under license from the British in late 1927, desirability of the Dixi then BMW-branded machines shot up with the 1934 debut of the 315/1 sports 2-seater which gave the European establishment such a team-prize winning shock on Alpine rallies of the thirties. That simple but efficient 315 derivative led to the legendary 328 6-cylinders and 80bhp. These 2-liters became world class benchmarks from a debut Nurburgring victory. We have driven examples both as traditional open sports cars of shattering 21st century value to the underwritten but hugely significant 327/28 coupe, which was the glamorous forerunner to a line of postwar BMW coupés that continue today.
All listings for this product
Be the first to write a review
