Rallye Monte-Carlo

Rallye Monte-Carlo

Ask ordinary people to name a famous motor rally and the majority will reply Rally Monte Carlo. Practically everyone knows the most famous rally of all time. Now the first major A to Z about this classic of rallying is published with more than five hundred photos on four hundred pages. The McKlein team with its photographers have combined with authors such as journalist and Monte Carlo Rally participant John Davenport and journalist Michel Lizin. All concerned have searched through their memories and photo archives and have found more than that for which they were searching. The result is a visually stunning book of amusement and diversions with the best stories from the ninety rallies that took place between 1911 and today.

What do apple pie, snow flurries and freaky spectators have in common? They all played a role in the big colourful Monte Carlo circus, and they all appear in these pages. The pastries were once given to the crews in the Ardèche, while the Monte is as legendary for its weather conditions as it is for the enthusiastic audience. The rally is an almost inexhaustible source of anecdotes, drama and fate. There are involuntary and deliberately chosen shortcuts, a suitcase full of spikes spends the night at customs in London, a co-driver is forgotten, buses and taxis drive along with the cars. And Michel Lizin describes a ride with Hannu Mikkola during the reconnaissance of the Burzet-Burzet stage as he sat clinging to the roll bar in the seatless rear of the Ford Escort.

Who knows today that the “wiggle-woggle”, a simple test of driving skill, was once decisive for the Monte Carlo result? Or that points were once awarded for the most comfortable equipment? And of course, all the classics are there, from Alpine to Zephyr among the cars, from Antraigues to the Col de Turini among the legendary stages. Sébastien Loeb, Tommi Mäkinen, Walter Röhrl and all the other stars were always good for anecdotes, plus impressions in both words and pictures, exciting and moving memories and lots of exciting, funny and sometimes dramatic episodes.

Enjoy a trip through time covering one hundred and ten years, from the Rolls-Royce crews of the pre-war era to the antics of the Group B monsters, and to the WRC cars of today. Come on a long journey through the wildest snowstorms and sample the treacherous ice, experience the magic of night stages and learn how the photographers scramble to the best secret spots close along the stages.

On top of all that, there is also a comprehensive review of the rallies, from 1949 up to 2021 for every year.

Technical Details:
Format: 29 x 29 cm
Hardcover in slipcase: 400 Pages
Photos: app. 530
Texts: English, German, French

Brooks Stevens and the Stevens Family Legacy: From Excaliburs to Wienermobiles

Brooks Stevens and the Stevens Family Legacy: From Excaliburs to Wienermobiles

Over the years, Brooks Stevens’ amazing career as an innovative industrial designer has been recorded in countless articles and several books but now, for the first time, a comprehensive record of his love for automobiles is defined in Brooks Stevens and the Stevens Family Legacy – From Excaliburs to Wienermobiles.

Brooks’ sons, David and William “Steve” Stevens, played key roles from the mid-1960s through the 1980s and yet a great many people are unaware of their invaluable contributions, which are presented between these pages.

From his first car, a Ford Model T given to him by his father as a reward for accomplishing a challenge, Brooks and his associates designed a series of special vehicles commissioned by Studebaker and Kaiser Frazer, by wealthy industrials, entertainment stars, and friends. The first Excalibur J cars went on to win an SCCA National Championship in 1958, a series of passenger cars derived from the original 1964 Mercebaker, soon after to be renamed the Excalibur SS, and the infamous Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles.

Celebrities come and go throughout this history: entertainers Jackie Gleason and Phyllis Diller, successful race drivers Al Unser, Jr., Jim Jeffords, John Fitch, Jerry Hansen, Carl Haas, Fred Wacker, and Roger Penske, “father” of the Corvette Zora Arkus-Duntov, and also designer/constructors “Dutch” Darrin and John DeLorean are included. Prominent Milwaukee and Wisconsin socialites, industrialists, and business leaders are also present: William Woods Plankinton, Fred Miller, Fred Stratton, Sr., Dan Parker, Ralph Evinrude, and David Uihlein, to name but a few.

Color renderings designed to improve Road America’s facility during the early years and experiences at Le Mans, Sebring, and American sports car tracks from Watkins Glen in New York to Sears Point in California and dozens of others in between are interesting. Excalibur race results are recorded by date.

There is much more of interest for even the occasional classic automobile buff, including the history, from its roots in earlier buildings, to opening night of the Brooks Stevens Automotive Museum in Mequon, Wisconsin, right on up to its eventual closing.

Full color with dozens of photos.

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