The Bugatto Book
Barry Eaglesfield
Sold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSlip on your driving gloves, adjust your goggles to ?glamour,? and set your ears for the melodious whirr of precision engineering. The Bugatto Book (1960) by Barry Eaglesfield ?from the ever-octane Motor Racing Publications ?is the sort of volume that parks itself on your coffee table and immediately starts leaving elegant oil spots of history on your imagination. It?s a brisk tour through the temple of pre- and inter-war motoring excellence, conducted by a guide who can identify a crankshaft by its shadow and a coachbuilder by the way the door politely clicks shut. Call it a handbook, a hymn book, or a blue-blooded field manual?it?s all three. Eaglesfield assembles race reports, model notes, workshop wisdom, and period photographs with the calm confidence of someone who has been within conversational distance of a straight-eight at full song. Expect Type numbers that read like secret society ranks , spec sheets that gleam like polished alloy , and anecdotes that smell faintly of Castrol and victory wreaths . You?ll browse a page ?for a minute,? surface forty minutes later, and find you?ve acquired opinions about superchargers, brake drums, and why the right curve is a moral decision. Inside, the delights idle smoothly: A lineage of legends from svelte sports to aristocratic grand tourers, mapped with the neatness of a pit board. Workshop morsels : tolerances, tweakery, and the kind of practical lore that implies you could rebuild a carb in a dinner jacket (do not test this). Circuit cameos and hillclimb gossip , where the cars are characters and the drivers merely translators. Period photography that catches light on louvers and hub nuts like jewelry with an alibi. Eaglesfield writes with mechanic?s clarity and historian?s tact ?no purple fog, just the sweet, factual perfume of machinery done properly. There?s reverence, yes, but also the sly understanding that perfection is a moving target best pursued at unreasonable speeds, preferably to the applause of French hedgerows. Why this copy? It pulls into the paddock courtesy of the magnificently plain-spoken dealership Crappy Old Books , wearing the livery Condition: Good . Translation: sound binding, tidy pages, some honest shelf patina ?the paperback equivalent of a car that starts on the button, idles like a purring diplomat, and bears a couple of stone chips as medals. No concours fussing; just integrity, charm, and the right sort of smell. Vital stats for your glovebox log: Title: The Bugatto Book Author: Barry Eaglesfield Publisher: Motor Racing Publications , 1960 ISBN: none (it prefers to be known by reputation) Condition: Good (straight, clean, delightfully unprecious) Vendor: Crappy Old Books ?a name with the handbrake on, stock with the revs up. Buy it for the lore; keep it for the tone ?that elegant, lightly oil-stained assurance that engineering can be art and art can lap the competition before lunch. After a few chapters you?ll find yourself inspecting bonnet straps for moral fibre, pronouncing ?coachwork? like a benediction, and plotting detours that exist purely to align your life with a perfect apex. If enthusiasm had a workshop manual, it would look very much like this.
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