Sports Car Classics: Original road tests, feature articles and motoring columns (Dove Digital Motoring Book: A Vintage Archive Book 2)

Renowned motoring writer Eric Dymock selects features, road tests, motoring columns and excerpts from his books on sports car classics. Some material is quoted at length; most are features of under a thousand words, just as they were published between about 1960 and 2010. Dymock adds commentary to expand and illustrate. Two-part ebook.

Digital book in two parts:
Contemporary features, road tests, motoring columns and quotations from his books are among items Eric Dymock has selected from half a century’s writing about cars. His first choice is what can loosely be called sports cars. Some material is quoted at length; most are features and motoring columns of under a thousand words just as they were published between about 1960 and 2010. Some are full length features of more than 2,500 words and are, for the most part, only lightly revised in Dove Digital house style.

Written for widely different publications, they vary in style. Road tests Eric Dymock compiled for The Motor have a technical bias, distilled from the opinions of the road test staff. Sunday Times readers did not expect anything like that. They read unvarnished personal views gained from hundreds of thousands of miles test-driving virtually every make of sports car in the second half of the 20th century as well as many from the first.

Among the sources used are The Autocar; Eric Dymock’s Blog; BMW Car; Business magazine; Christie’s Auction catalogue; Classic Car Weekly; Dove Publishing:- MG File, The Complete Bentley, Jaguar, Honda the UK story, The Audi File, Ford in Britain Centenary File; The Guardian; The Motor; Motor Racing Publications, The Sprites and Midgets; Pavilion Books, BMW A Celebration; Salisbury Journal; Safety Fast; Scotland on Sunday; Scottish Field; Sunday Herald; Sunday Times; Top Gear the SSCC magazine; The Times.

Contents Part 2
Jaguar; SS100; Jaguar XK engine 1948; Jaguar XK120 aluminium prototype; Jaguar XK120 production; Jaguar XK120s at Le Mans; Jaguar XK120 F H Coupe; Jaguar XK120SE; Jaguar -Four great Jaguars; Jaguar XKSS;;Jaguar XK140 open 2-seater; Jaguar XK140 FHC; Jaguar XK140 DHC; Jaguar XK140 SE; Jaguar XK150 3.4 FHC; Jaguar XK150 3.4 DHC; Jaguar XK150S 3.4 Roadster; Jaguar XK150S 3.8; Jaguar E-type; Jaguar 1971 Series III V12 E-type roadster and 2+2; Jaguar Series III V12 2+2; Jaguar Series III V12 two seat roadster US-spec; Jaguar XJ220; Jaguar XJR-S; JaguarSport; Jaguar XK8; Jensen, Jensen-Healey; Jowett Jupiter; Lagonda; Lamborghini; Lamborghini Diablo; Lancia; Lancia Montecarlo; Lea-Francis; Ligier; Lotus; Lotus Elite; Lotus Esprit; Lotus Esprit S4; Marcos; Maserati; Maserati 222E; Maserati Merak; Matra; Mazda RX-7; Mazda RX-7 Turbo Cabriolet; Mazda MX-5; Mazda MX-5 Turbo; MX-5 on Bodmin Moor; McLaren F1; Mercedes-Benz; Mercedes-Benz 600SEC; Mercedes-Benz SL; Mercedes-Benz 500SL; Mercedes-Benz SLK; MG; MG TC Midget; MG TD Midget; MG TD Mk II; MG TF Midget 1250; MG TF 1500; MG EX 182 Le Mans team cars; MG MGA; MG MGA Coupe; MGA Twin Cam; MG at Le Mans; MGB Twin Cam; MGF; MG RV8; Monteverdi; Morgan; Morgan Plus 8; Morgan Oselli; MVS Venturi; Nissan 300ZX; Opel; Pegaso; Porsche; Porsche 1600SC; Porsche 912; Porsche 944; Porsche 944S2; Porsche 928S Series4; Porsche 928S; Porsche 959; Porsche Carrera 2 Tiptronic; Porsche 944 Turbo Cabriolet; Porsche 968 Convertible; Porsche 968 Club Sport; Porsche 911; Porsche 968 Sport; 911 Carrera; Porsche 356; Ferdinand Porsche and VW; Porsche 911 Turbo; Reliant; Renault; Riley; Saab; Sunbeam; Sunbeam Tiger; Studebaker Avanti; Talbot Lago; Talbot; Toyota MR-2; Triumph; Triumph Spitfire; Triumph Lynx; TVR; TVR S3; TVR Chimaera; Vauxhall; Volvo P1800; Yamaha 0X99-11.

Motoring correspondent of the Sunday Times for 14 years, Eric Dymock holds the Jim Clark memorial award for Scots who have achieved excellence in the field of motoring.