Sports Cars, Volume 1More than 200 illustrations of sports cars. There are 96 marques covered in this first volume of a series, from the German-made Simson Supra of 1928 to the exciting Alfa-Romeo Le Mans car of 1938 and the rare Raymond Mays machine of 1939. |
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