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A Life Awheel: The 'auto' biography of W de Forte
Richard Skelton
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Description for A Life Awheel: The 'auto' biography of W de Forte
Paperback. A veteran motoring journalist's extraordinary life, told through delightfully eccentric stories and charming diary extract. This unique book is packed with fascinating stories about classic cars and motorcycles, set in a bygone world, and properly fixed in time. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; WGCB; WGCK; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Born in Shropshire soon after the end of the First World War, venerable motoring writer W de Forte has driven everything from his grandfather's first Daimler, to modern-day supercars … ridden everything from vertiginous Victorian penny farthings, to high velocity twenty-first century superbikes … travelled everywhere from the permafrost of the Arctic Circle to the baking sands of the Baja Peninsula … and met everyone from Tazio Nuvolari to Valentino Rossi. W de Forte enjoyed an eventful career as a top-level journalist, spanning 75 years, during which time he tested many thousands of cars and reported on countless automotive events ... Read more
Born in Shropshire soon after the end of the First World War, venerable motoring writer W de Forte has driven everything from his grandfather's first Daimler, to modern-day supercars … ridden everything from vertiginous Victorian penny farthings, to high velocity twenty-first century superbikes … travelled everywhere from the permafrost of the Arctic Circle to the baking sands of the Baja Peninsula … and met everyone from Tazio Nuvolari to Valentino Rossi. W de Forte enjoyed an eventful career as a top-level journalist, spanning 75 years, during which time he tested many thousands of cars and reported on countless automotive events ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Veloce Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845848446
SKU
V9781845848446
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Richard Skelton
Richard Skelton has been a motorcyclist since first taking to the road on a Yamaha FS1-E on his 16th birthday in 1976, and his first book, Funky Mopeds, was about the 1970s sports moped phenomenon in which he played an active part. After 30 years working in the television industry as a sound editor, and time spent working as a ... Read more
Reviews for A Life Awheel: The 'auto' biography of W de Forte
Unique, rambling and eccentric. Classic Cars sure, it's a work of fiction but an amusing one all the same tkc (Totalkitcar) quite impossible to put aside ... the perfect book to take on holiday ... treat yourself Motor Cycling Club (MCC) this is a novel way of providing information on a very eclectic collection of vehicles which will appeal to ... Read more