- Hardcover: 64 pages
- Publisher: Salamander Books; First Edition edition (7 Sep 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0861014421
- ISBN-13: 978-0861014422
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 486,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book analyzes the "Evoluzione" of the Countach, with original action photographs and line drawings. The author is Assistant Editor of "Performance Car" and has co-authored "The History of Motor Racing".
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I had this when it first came out. Lost the damn thing & had to find another. The fact that I actually wanted another copy suggests a/ it was part of my childhood, and b/ it's not half-bad. Detail is reasonable, it's perhaps a little uncritical, and glosses over the Countach's many flaws, but you'd expect that of a book of this type. The Countach was, is, and always will be the ultimate 'shock-car'; sci-fi bad-boy image meets goodness knows what. It's an iconic shape, which is of course the point.
Either way, this book, like the others in the series, follows a sensible format, giving historical information, technical data on the car itself, a summary of its construction, and ending with a fairly lengthy quasi-road-test. Brian Laban's writing is concise and readable, doesn't fall into the trap of becoming over-indulgent in poetic imagary, and you end up by wishing you had your own Countach lurking in the garage which you could periodically take out to annoy do-gooders, terrify old ladies and make the day of every small boy who claps eyes on it. Job done.
Either way, this book, like the others in the series, follows a sensible format, giving historical information, technical data on the car itself, a summary of its construction, and ending with a fairly lengthy quasi-road-test. Brian Laban's writing is concise and readable, doesn't fall into the trap of becoming over-indulgent in poetic imagary, and you end up by wishing you had your own Countach lurking in the garage which you could periodically take out to annoy do-gooders, terrify old ladies and make the day of every small boy who claps eyes on it. Job done.
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