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Author: Anders Ditlev Clausager, Softbound, 80 Pages, ISBN: 9781870979863, 1st Edition,1997 - Second-Hand book in excellent unread condition !
The wonderful Mini, above fashion and seemingly timeless, is so admired that the readers of a leading motoring magazine voted it their 'Car of the Century' But for the real enthusiast, naturally, the Mini Cooper is the pick of the bunch, whether as
one of the 'classic' Cooper or Cooper S models of 1961-71 or the 'modern' Cooper that has been built since 1990 Peppy performance, roller-skate handling, superb steering, incredible agility — these are a few of the qualities that make any Mini Cooper so great to drive
In this book Anders Ditlev Clausager explores every angle of the Mini Cooper. Following an introduction explaining how John Cooper's initiative led to the development of a sporting model, there are chapters about the detail evolution of the Cooper (997/998cc) and Cooper S (970/1071/1275cc) versions Motor sport successes — none greater than the famous 1964 Monte Carlo Rally victory — played an enormous part in nurturing the Mini's mystique, so the car's exploits in
rallying and racing are covered in detail T
here is a section on the little-known Mini Coopers built outside the UK (in Australia, Italy and Spain), and the story comes right up to date with a chapter devoted to the post-1990 models
All this is 'Essential' information for the enthusiast, whether newly interested or more knowledgeable Illustrated with a generous mix of colour and black-and-white
photographs, many of them previously unpublished, this is an 'Essential' item for the motoring bookshelf.
As archivist at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust's Heritage Motor Centre, Anders Ditiev Clausager spends part of his working life researching Mini history but he also has a strong spare-time interest in the model — and owns a very original early Mini He is an acclaimed author with 14 motoring tales to his name, seven of them for Bay View Books
