The vivid personality, great intelligence and strong determination of Carlo Abarth are revealed through the pages of his large biography. His personal life, his early motorcycling projects and races. The Cisitalia period and its unfortunate decline. The long and successful new adventure in car-tuning which made Abarth and his cars reknown all over the world. The book also contains technical data for each model produced, supported by company's chassis drawings and engines cutaways. Exhaustive and accurate listing of competitions which saw Abarth cars dominating the racing fields year by year. The book is richly illustrated by appealing and never published before photos, many of them belonging to the personal Abarth photo archive.

Contents:

• An appreciation by Lorenzo Avidano
• Engines in his blood
• The racing adventure
• Cisitalia, the great illusion
• Exhaust systems and a lot of courage
• The hunt for success
• Dedicated to winning
• The Scorpion takes all
• A lot of ambition and a little bitterness
• The price of triumph
• Driving into the sunset
• Milestones
  From victory to victory, 1949-1971
  The international records

Hardcover, 24,5 x 27,5 cm, 520 Seiten, 80 farbige und 600 s/w-Abbildungen, englischer Text