Cars I Could've, Should've, Kept : Memoir of a Life Restoring Classic Sports Cars

Brooks, Jackson

McFarland & Co Inc（2007/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 263 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786428106
• DDC分類 629.2221

Full Description

A small business owner and lifelong lover of classic sports cars, Jackson Brooks began in the early 1960s to purchase, restore and enjoy a long succession of rare automotive beauties, many of which are million-dollar commodities in today's market. Not so much a collector as an enthusiast and entrepreneur, he recounts in this well-illustrated memoir how he found and selected the cars, some of which were on the verge of the scrap-heap, the process of restoring them, the challenges he confronted along the way, the ones that got away, and always the hunt for the next vehicle to spark his imagination.

The cars, primarily sporting machines, include 8C-2.3 Alfa Romeos, a Jaguar SS100, three 1953 Ferrari 250MM Barchetta racers (of 13 built), a 1922 Mercedes Targa Florio racer, a Type 57 Bugatti, a 1929 Mercedes SSK (one of 33 built), four Talbot Lagos, and a 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton among many others, with particular concentrations on Ferrari and Alfa Romeo. Often the sale of one, after restoration and use, financed the purchase of the next, and the text includes the purchase and sale prices as well as approximate present-day market values of the cars. Few people have enjoyed so much hands-on experience with so many of the world's most desirable automobiles.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     

1. The 8C-2.3 Alfa Romeo     

2. The Jaguars (and a Few Others)     

3. The De Mola Bodied Alfa     

4. The 6C-1750 Gran Turismo Con Compressore     

5. The 250MM Ferraris     

6. The 1959 410 Superamerica Ferrari     

7. The Lusso Berlinetta Ferraris     

8. The Maharajah's 2.9 Alfa Romeo     

9. The 1922 Targa Florio Mercedes     

10. The 1957 Gullwing Mercedes     

11. The SSK Mercedes     

12. The 1953 212 Inter Ferrari #0289EU     

13. The Talbot Lagos     

14. The Type 57 Bugatti     

15. The 1949 Type 166 Ferrari Barchetta     

16. The Alfa Romeo Disco Volante     

17. The 1930 6C-1750 Alfa Romeo Zagato Spider     

18. The 250 GT Boano Ferraris     

19. The Fire Alfa     

20. My Last 8C-2.3 Alfa Romeo     

21. An Idyllic Interlude     

22. The Nash Healy     

23. My Packard Education     

24. The Austin Mini Cooper S     

25. The Twelve-Cylinder Pierce Arrow Club Brougham     

26. The 1937 Supercharged Cord Phaeton     

27. The 1939 Alvis Speed 25     

28. Cars I Admired but Never Owned     

29. Conclusion     

Index