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There are scads of "coffee table" books around about Corvettes. Nichole Schiele, spokesperson for Quayside Publishing Group's Motorbooks division, says that, in 45 years of publishing automotive books, Corvette and Mustang are tied for first in popularity amongst that company's marque-specific, coffee table titles–and that's just one vendor of automotive books of which are many. It follows that while Corvette books may abound, some are bad, some good and a few are outstanding.
Legendary Corvettes, by Randy Leffingwell is clearly one of the latter.
What a wonderful book!
Veteran automotive author, Leffingwell, picked a subject mix which some have used before: famous Corvette race cars, development specials, movie/TV cars and significant production units. What makes this title unique is the author's rich style, knowledge of the marque, tireless research and his eye for which cars, when grouped together, give the book interesting, educational and entertaining variety.
Leffingwell, a world-renowned automotive photographer in his own right, turned to another talented lensman, Dave Wendt, to handle the shooting duties–a smart move as Wendt's photographic skills are impecible and it allowed Lefingwell to concentrate on selecting the subject cars, writing and organizing the book.
Legendary Corvettes covers an interesting range of famous cars from 1953 VIN 00003 and the first Corvette race car of note, the 1956 Sebring road racer, to screen stars–the '60 used in the first season of "Route 66" and the C3 of "Corvette Summer–to "Big" John Mazmanian's BM/SP NHRA drag racing '61, the winged, Greenwood, GT road racers of the late 70s, the Le Mans winning C5R and the first 2009 C6 ZR1. Probably the only true legendary Corvette not covered is the second generation, '90-'95 ZR-1–an omission which incrementally affects the book, making it just "outstanding" rather than incredibly superb.
Randy Leffingwell writes about each Corvette weaving a great story using facts and emotion to emphasize just as much the people involved with the cars as the cars themselves.
What you get in Legendary Corvettes is 168 pages of exquisite eye candy that you'll also won't be able to put back down on your coffee table until you finish reading it.
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