Phil Hill: A Driving Life - Hardcover

Phil Hill; Photography By John Lamm; Book Design By Chuck Queener

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935007076 ISBN 13: 9781935007074

Publisher: David Bull Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Though he's best remembered as the first american Formula One champion and a three-time Le Mans winner, Phil Hill (1927-2008) also enjoyed a long and successful career as an automotive writer. For 30 years, beginning in the mid-1970s, Phil was a regular contributor to Road & Track magazine, writing vivid, first-person accounts of his experiences driving more than 100 different cars, from the first horseless carriage built by Karl Benz in 1886 to the 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt. Phil Hill: A Driving Life gathers the best of these stories, each of them accompanied by dazzling photographs from Phil's friend and R&T colleague, John Lamm.
Phil brought the same level of style, enthusiasm, and mechanical knowledge to a remarkable range of vehicles. There are vintage road cars such as a 1915 Packard, the first MG, and the Jaguar XK120. Then there are race cars, from Bugattis and Auto Unions of the 1930s to the Ferraris, Fords, and Chaparrals that Phil drove in the 1950s and 1960s. And the book also includes Phil's personal recollections of such motorsports greats as Juan Manuel Fangio, Dan Gurney, Stirling Moss, and Jim Hall.
Phil Hill: A Driving Life takes the reader on a unique journey through more than a century of automotive history with the ultimate guide at the wheel.

About this title

About the Author:

Once he began racing in the late 1940s, there was no stopping Phil Hill. By the mid-1950s he was driving sports cars for the Ferrari team, and soon graduated to Formula One. In 1961 he became the first American F1 champion, winning the driver's title for Ferrari.
In a career that also saw him compete in Jaguars, Cobras, Ford GT40s, Aston Martins, and Chaparrals, he amassed an impressive record of international victories including three wins at Le Mans. But there was another side to Phil, one that made him a well-known television commentator, a restorer of fine automobiles, and a living encyclopedia of automotive knowledge.
Phil and his wife, Alma, have three children and four grandchildren. Phil passed away in August 2008 at the age of 81.

About this edition

• Publisher: David Bull Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935007076
• ISBN 13: 9781935007074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192