If they print half the stories I remember about John it will be a very naughty
(and funny) book.
On Monday, January 11, 2010, at 04:30PM, "HealeyRick" <healeyrick@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>New Healey book to be released in October:
>
>"This is the authorised biography of one of the best-liked bad boys in
>British
>motorsport. John Chatham, driver, racer, repairer, rebuilder,
>tuner, trader
>and lover of Austin-Healeys, was in the words of Geoffrey
>Healey
>b uncontrollableb in his youth, and has only mildly mellowed with
>age.
>Burly and genial but formidably competitive, and not above bending
>the rules
>when he thought he could get away with it, to many he is the
>archetypal club
>racer. John is so synonymous with Austin-Healeys that
>the most famous racing
>Healey in the world, DD300, is so well-known
>mainly because John campaigned it
>for decades, notching up tens of
>thousands of racing miles. But his career
>embraces far more than one
>car, and until this biography no-one had attempted
>to fill in the gaps.
>
>
>The book is not a dry description of one club race after another. It
>does
>include a list of Johnbs principal sporting achievements, but no
>complete
>record exists of the hundreds of events which made up his
>competitive career,
>so the writer has not attempted to compile one.
>Instead Norman Burr, who was
>himself acquainted with John in his youth,
>has created a more rounded and
>personal account, full of motoring and
>sporting anecdotes, but also telling
>the story of Johnbs family, his
>work, his business, his three wives and his
>lovers. John has a
>comprehensive photo library from which the book is
>generously
>illustrated, with cartoons added to illustrate some of the moments
>that
>a camera was not around to record. Thoroughly politically incorrect
>even
>by the standards of the 1960s, itbs an account which will strike a
>chord not
>only with admirers of Big Healeys, but also with anyone who
>believes that
>independent thinking, and the courage to apply and enjoy
>it, is the greatest
>virtue of all."
>
>Rick
>
>
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