FERRARI
Inbunden bok. Könneman. 2004. 400 sidor.
Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nära nyskick. Endast smärre hanteringsspår på omslaget. Engelsk text. Stort format: 27X32 cm. Massor av fina bilder. They have even been given a name of their own: Ferraristi. What other automobile brand has its own fan club named for it? However Ferrari is not just a brand name, it is also a fascination: almost twenty years after the death of its founder Enzo Ferrari, his spirit and will live on. The life´s work of the man from Modena, the city where he was born in 1898 and where he died 1988, is admired the world over. The rich and the prominent, the aristocracy and royalty, have insisted on picking up their Ferraris in Maranello themselves. Over fifty years of photographs provid proof of this delivery practice. Starting with the racing car, the Commendatore´s first vehicle was for Alfa Romeo. At the turn of the 21st century, racing sport is dominated by his brand in a period of unchallenged supremacy: as an integral part of Italian culture, these sports cars with their power, speed, and tradition have become a national automobile icon. Here they have been brought together: the eight or twelve-cylinder vehicles with their wonderful bodywork by Pininfarina or Scaglietti. Automobiles which became a part of motoring history and the personificationof style for a whole generation - great moments presented here by both authors and the photographer with just as much meticulous precision as incessant passion for the vehicles,