Overview
Velocity: Supercar Revolution, the first complete history of the supercar, tells the story behind the most desirable cars in the world. With stunning photography and vivid first-hand recollections from a lifetime spent as an automotive journalist, author/photographer John Lamm provides an in-depth historical, cultural, and technological account of these amazing machines as they reached speeds of 170, 180, 190, and finally 200-plus miles per hour—the informal mark of today’s supercar.
Synopsis
In the mid 1960s the postwar boutique automakers producing exquisite race cars in their small shops in Europe unleashed an entirely new breed of automobile on the motor sports world: the supercar. These outrageous machines packaged the technology automakers like Ferrari, Porsche, Maserati, and Lamborghini had developed for use on the track in exclusive road-going cars for well-heeled enthusiasts.
Velocity: Supercar Revolution tells the story of these cars, and of the supercar movement itself, through profiles of and interviews with the designers and engineers who developed these cars, the men who raced them, and the celebrities who drive them today. Through the first-hand stories and spectacular photography of John Lamm, a man who was present at the birth of most of these fabulous cars, this book conveys as never before the power of automotive aesthetics and performance pushed to their absolute limit.