Jaguar XK120 Supersonic by Ghia, 9781907085826
Hardcover
In this, the first in Porter Press’s new `Coachbuilt Cars’ series, author Richard Heseltine presents the Ghia Jaguar XK120 Supersonic - with its complex pedigree of British design brilliance and Italian design artistry.

Jaguar XK120 Supersonic by Ghia

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  • Hardcover

    108 pages

  • Release Date

    23 October 2019

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Summary

Author Richard Heseltine untangles the Ghia Jaguar XK120 Supersonic’s complicated backstory of British design brilliance and Italian design artistry. He reveals how Ghia wowed the car world with its jet-age styling, and introduces several fascinating characters whose names have peppered the post-war story of Italian car design, engineering and racing. Readers will discover how the original Supersonic was the work of Giovanni Sovanuzzi - the genius designer-engineer famous for the Cisitalia 20…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781907085826
ISBN-10:1907085823
Series:Coachbuilt Cars
Author:Richard Heseltine
Publisher:Porter Press International
Imprint:Porter Press International
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:108
Release Date:23 October 2019
Weight:1.25kg
Dimensions:315mm x 270mm
About The Author

Richard Heseltine

Author and journalist Richard Heseltine writes with a focus on classic and contemporary performance cars and motor sport history. A former staff member of Classic & Sports Car and Motor Sport magazines, he is the author of books on subjects as diverse as small-series British sports cars, Italian coachbuilding, Ferrari design history, and a biography of racing driver and team principal Graham Warner. Richard lives in Shropshire, where he attends to a coachbuilt Italian classic of his own - a 1966 Moretti 850 Sportiva.

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