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Book Reviews: Unconventional histories of 1950s racing.(Book Review)

AutoWeek,  September, 2004  

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** Ken Miles, by Art Evans, 124 pages, hardbound, Photo Data Research LLC, available at fabulous-fifties.com, $49.95 The late English racer Ken Miles, whose MG-based specials in the 1950s place him among the most innovative builders, and whose achievements behind the wheels of Porsches, Cobras and Ford GT40s rank with the world's best, is the subject here.

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A Miles family friend, Art Evans describes the book not as a biography, but as "a scrapbook.'' It's something in between. Not conventional biography, but a history that is resolutely honest in its approach, despite the ...

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