Welcome to Hingston Classic Car Books

Peter Hingston — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:44:03 +0000

“The Enthusiasts’ Guide to Buying a Classic British Sports Car” is a new book to be published in November 2007. It is a sequel to a buyer’s guide the author wrote over 25 years ago. Its title was “Guide to Buying a Used Sports Car” and though it was only a modest booklet, it received good reviews in The Daily Telegraph, Autocar and Hotcar etc. With the passage of time, the cars he wrote about have become “classics” and he decided to write this rather more ambitious buyer’s guide, a task which took him well over three years full-time.

The purpose of this new book is to provide a reasonably comprehensive buyer’s guide to over 150 classic British sports cars launched by the major manufacturers between 1945 and the early 1980s.

This book is not simply a compilation of previously published information but includes much new material, generously provided by well over two hundred enthusiasts from over 70 car clubs. This new information includes revised production figures for some models, estimates of numbers of survivors for many models and a wealth of suggestions as to what to look for when checking cars.

A feature of the book is an 8-page, 100-point vehicle checklist, of use to both novices and experienced car enthusiasts.

The book emphasises the many advantages of club membership and there is an up-to-date UK club listing at the back of the book.

The book should be on sale, for the first time, at the NEC Classic Motor Show (9th-11th Nov 2007).

The book is published by Hingston Publishing, who are specialist International authors and book publishers. Established in 1985, we have sold over 600,000 books that we have written.