Having been blessed with the opportunity to stay a few days with John
and Vicki in 1981, I can only hope the book includes a fair amount of
his early days racing 100's. I had a wonderful time listening to those
tales while he proceeded to drink me under the table every evening!
Those were every bit as much fun as his escapades in DD300.
Bill
Red Car
On 1/11/2010 01:30 PM, HealeyRick 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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