365 Sports Cars You Must Drive puts you in the driver’s seat of a century’s worth of sports car legends (and a few rather less legendary), each presented with a fun and informative profile and fact-and-spec box. It’s the ultimate gearhead’s bucket list and poses the challenge: How many have you driven?
Whoever coined the phrase “getting there is half the fun” must have owned a sports car. And the wag who suggested that “it’s the journey not the destination”? Probably driving a Lotus or MG at the time. From towering icons like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, and Corvette to everyman sportsters from Triumph, MG, Sunbeam, and Miata to oddballs like Crosley, Sabra, and DB, sports cars inspire passion and strong opinions as few other vehicles on the road can.
In one beautiful book, long-time Road & Truck magazine chief photographer John Lamm, along with other top motoring contributors, gives the reader illustrated profiles of every sports car you’ve ever dreamed of driving!
Now, imagine if you could drive a different sports car—any sports car—every single day for a year. Which would you choose?
John Lamm is a respected automotive journalist and photographer who covers sports and racing cars for
Road & Track. After attending a road race at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, he decided to become an automotive journalist and began his career with
Motor Trend magazine in Los Angeles. In 1975, he moved to
Road & Track, where he remains editor-at-large. Lamm has won the International Motor Press Association's Ken Purdy Award and the Motor Press Guild's Dean Batchelor Award.
Steve Sutcliffe has served as an editor at
Auto Express, Evo,
What Car?, and
Autocar. He is also a successful race driver, competing in the BTCC with Lexus and in the Nurburgring 24h. He also finished on the podium with Aston Martin in the Silverstone 24h. He was one of the first journalists ever to be allowed to drive a current F1 car, setting highly competitive times around Silverstone in Jenson Button’s Honda RA107.
Larry Edsall was snatched away from a career as the sports editor of a daily newspaper in Michigan to become the motorsports editor at
AutoWeek magazine, where he spent most of a dozen years as the managing editor. He left Detroit for Phoenix in 1999 to help modernize one automotive website and then launched another, iZoom.com. He contributes to automotive and lifestyle publications, writes regularly for the
Detroit News "Drive" section and the
New York Times "Wheels," and is part of the adjunct faculty at the journalism school at Arizona State University. Edsall's Motorbooks titles include
Camaro 2016,
Corvette Stingray, and
Chevrolet Volt.
James Mann (jamesmann.com) has been shooting cars and motorcycles for publications and the motor industry for over 30 years. His work has appeared in more than 70 books, including Motorbooks'
Art of the Formula 1 Race Car,
The Art of the Classic Sports Car,
Art of Ducati, and
Art of the Le Mans Race Car. James has provided photos for numerous magazines, including
Classic and Sports Car,
CAR, and
Automobile magazine, and was chosen to photograph the Royal Mail's British Auto Legends stamps. He was recently awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. James resides in Dorset, UK.
Kris Palmer has written for the
Minnesota StarTribune automotive section and several enthusiast automotive magazines. He also contributed to Motorbooks'
The Cobra in the Barn and authored
The Fast and the Furious: The Official Car Guide. When not racing down a deadline, he logs quality garage time with his modified Triumph TR6.Starting photography at the age of 14,
George F. Williams quickly realized he could unite photography with his other major passion—cars. His automotive photography career began as an obsession for cars and morphed into a very successful career photographing them. George’s current client base includes some of the most prestigious automobile brands in the world.
David Newhardt has been a photographer for Motor Trend, authored 17 automotive books, and supplied images to scores of other books and magazines. As chief photographer at Mecum Auctions, David continues to photograph and write about everything automotive. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, and he served eight years on nuclear submarines. Born and raised in Chicago, he currently lives near Nashville, Tennessee.
