Ferrari
75 Years
Published on 11. January 2022
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-7603-7209-8 (ISBN)
Description
Celebrate 75 years of Ferrari with this complete, fascinating, and stunningly illustrated history highlighting the company's legendary sports cars and their worldwide influence.
A stellar combination of beauty, engineering, racing success, exclusivity, and Italian flair combine to make Ferrari the world's most legendary carmaker. All these traits coalesce in the form of Ferrari's road cars. No other sports car manufacturer has so consistently set the bar for style and performance. It's a near-unbroken 75-year run of automotive hits:
The 125S in 1947
The versatile 340 in the 1950s
The stunning 250s and 275s of the 1960s
The Daytona in the 1970s
The shocking F40 in the 1990s
The modern era?'s outrageous hypercars like the Enzo, F8, and LaFerrari
Ferrari: 75 Years dives deep into Ferrari's sports car history beginning in 1947, but also examines Enzo Ferrari's early career with Alfa-Romeo before he launched his legendary company.
Automotive historian and photographer Dennis Adler offers Ferrari owners and fans a full and fascinating picture of Maranello's 75 years of sports car manufacturing. Adler's detailed text is accompanied by his breathtaking photography and supplemented by important historic images.
For 75 years, Ferrari has created high-performance automotive works of art to fire the imaginations of car lovers and performance enthusiasts the world over. Ferrari: 75 Years provides an inspiring and illuminating look back at this history.
A stellar combination of beauty, engineering, racing success, exclusivity, and Italian flair combine to make Ferrari the world's most legendary carmaker. All these traits coalesce in the form of Ferrari's road cars. No other sports car manufacturer has so consistently set the bar for style and performance. It's a near-unbroken 75-year run of automotive hits:
The 125S in 1947
The versatile 340 in the 1950s
The stunning 250s and 275s of the 1960s
The Daytona in the 1970s
The shocking F40 in the 1990s
The modern era?'s outrageous hypercars like the Enzo, F8, and LaFerrari
Ferrari: 75 Years dives deep into Ferrari's sports car history beginning in 1947, but also examines Enzo Ferrari's early career with Alfa-Romeo before he launched his legendary company.
Automotive historian and photographer Dennis Adler offers Ferrari owners and fans a full and fascinating picture of Maranello's 75 years of sports car manufacturing. Adler's detailed text is accompanied by his breathtaking photography and supplemented by important historic images.
For 75 years, Ferrari has created high-performance automotive works of art to fire the imaginations of car lovers and performance enthusiasts the world over. Ferrari: 75 Years provides an inspiring and illuminating look back at this history.
Reviews / Votes
"Ultimately, Ferrari: 75 Years provides an inspiring and illuminating look back at Enzo Ferrari and the company that became his legacy. The forward by Luigi Chinetti Jr. is especially illuminating; it's a mini history all by itself."* Supercars.net *
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
425+ color & b-w photos
Dimensions
Height: 281 mm
Width: 223 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1722 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7603-7209-8 (9780760372098)
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Persons
Award-winning author, photographer, and historian Dennis Adler is recognized as one of America's most published authors and historians. He has been seen on Good Morning America, The Today Show, and CBS Sunday Morning. The author of thirty-seven books on collectible cars and historic firearms, as well as a former magazine editor, Adler has had more than five thousand articles and photographs published during his 35-year career.
Content
Foreword by Luigi Chinetti, Jr
Introduction: Cisitalia-Realization of the Modern Sports Car
Chapter 1 Zero to Seventy-Five Years-The Evolution of Ferrari
Chapter 2 Enzo Ferrari's Venture-An Independent Decision
Chapter 3 Early Road and Race Cars-Building an Image on Road and Track.
Chapter 4 Road Cars of the 1950s
Chapter 5 The Dino-A Tribute to Enzo's Son
Chapter 6 Coming of Age in America-Ferraris of the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 7 The North American Connection
Chapter 8 The 1970s and a New Look
Chapter 9 Ferrari Road Cars-1980s and 1990s
Chapter 10 The Twenty-First-Century Ferrari
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction: Cisitalia-Realization of the Modern Sports Car
Chapter 1 Zero to Seventy-Five Years-The Evolution of Ferrari
Chapter 2 Enzo Ferrari's Venture-An Independent Decision
Chapter 3 Early Road and Race Cars-Building an Image on Road and Track.
Chapter 4 Road Cars of the 1950s
Chapter 5 The Dino-A Tribute to Enzo's Son
Chapter 6 Coming of Age in America-Ferraris of the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 7 The North American Connection
Chapter 8 The 1970s and a New Look
Chapter 9 Ferrari Road Cars-1980s and 1990s
Chapter 10 The Twenty-First-Century Ferrari
Acknowledgments
Index