They Started in MGs: Profiles of Sports Car Racers of the 1950s

by Carl Goodwin

An affordable, lightweight sports car suitable for racing, the MG TC launched the sports car scene in postwar America. A wave of drivers first competed on the track in these and the later TD, TF and MGA models during the 1950s, many of them eventually moving up to Porsches, Alfa Romeos, Jaguars and Ferraris. Eighty such drivers, from the famous (e.g., Phil Hill, John Fitch, David E. Davis, Jr.) to lesser known men and women with equally vivid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786460520
• ISBN13: 9780786460526
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher