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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