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Backfire

Backfire

Backfire Paperback - 2003

by Clark, Alan

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  • Title Backfire
  • Author Clark, Alan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Phoenix Edit
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Phoenix, United Kingdom
  • Publication date February 1, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001008101
  • ISBN 9780753813737 / 0753813734
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 5 x 7.8 x 0.56 in (12.70 x 19.81 x 1.42 cm)
  • Category Automotive
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.222
  • Quantity available 9

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From the publisher

Alan Clark's passion for cars - that he bought, drove and wrote about over 50 years

Alan Clark was passionate about cars from an early age. He bought his first car - a secondhand 6.5 litre Bentley - while still a schoolboy at Eton and without a driving licence. By the time he was 24 he had been banned from driving three times, not only for speeding but in one instance for driving an open Buick Roadster with a girl on his lap. He dealt in 'classic' and vintage cars and soon built up an impressive stable of his own.

One of his first published pieces of journalism appeared in the US magazine, Road and Track, for which he was briefly UK correspondent. BACK FIRE, the title of a column he wrote in Thoroughbred and Classic Cars magazine, ran for three years until his death in September 1999. Alan Clark's elder son, James Clark - who has inherited his father's motoring enthusiasms - provides a Prologue; Alan Clark's widow Jane writes a moving Afterword.

First line

Practically my earliest memory of childhood is standing anxiously (I would have been about five or six years old) on the quayside at Inverewe, having disembarked from one of the MacBrayne steamers, and seeing the two Rolls-Royces that my grandfather had sent to meet us - one for the passengers and one for the luggage - coming along on the far side of the loch, raising dust clouds on the unmade highland roads.

About the author

Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three volumes) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by the BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.
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