Phil Hill: A Driving Life (FIRST EDITION WITH SIGNED CARD)

Hill, Phil; Lamm, John (photography); Queener, Chuck (book design)

ISBN 10: 1935007076 / ISBN 13: 9781935007074

Published by David Bull, 2010

About this Item

First Printing (full # line) in dust jacket with signed Christmas Card from the Phil Hill Family (for the season 2006) to their close friend & Santa Monica neighbor, film director Joe Pytka, with other Hill family memorabilia laid in, Fine in Fine, no markings, trifling edge wear to dj top panel, else bright tight exemplary copy with signed card from the great Formula One race car driver - unique association copy (dj in mylar protector); folio; 191pp illus. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this heavy oversize book (additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for expedited or overseas shipment).

Seller Inventory # 32012

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Phil Hill: A Driving Life (FIRST EDITION WITH SIGNED CARD)
• Publisher: David Bull
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935007076
• ISBN 13: 9781935007074
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Automobiles / Auto Racing
  • Sports

About this title

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.<BR> 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.<BR> 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 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.<BR> 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.<BR> Phil and his wife, Alma, have three children and four grandchildren. Phil passed away in August 2008 at the age of 81.