Johnny Tipler

La Carrera Panamericana – “The World’s Greatest Road Race!” is now available, as of 18th September 2008 from Veloce Publishing.

Read excerpts from the book. One, two and three.

This reprint of my early 1990s offering with Veloce Publishing tells the tale of the charismatic Giulia Sprint GT and its GTV and fantastic GTA siblings that set the benchmark for performance touring cars from the early 1960s right into the mid-1970s. The lightweight GTA and GT-AM race cars won numerous touring car races and championships during that time. The Foreword is penned by Autodelta works driver Andrea de Adamich.

Haynes’ 2006 reprint in hardback of the Sutton Pictorial History publication features many colour photographs and a new chapter that brings the TVR saga bang up to date under its new Russian ownership.

TVR - An Illustrated History by Johnny Tipler on Amazon

When I went to interview Charles Morgan for Performance Car magazine I was astonished to find a manufacturing process little changed since the 1930s. So I spent several weeks at the Malvern plant chronicling the construction methodology including the bending of the wigs in a mangle and over a tree trunk while Simon Clay photographed the arcane processes involved. Charles Morgan wrote the Foreword.

Morgan - The Cars and the Factory by Johnny Tipler on Amazon

A legend in its own lifetime, the Seven was launched by Lotus back in 1957, evolving into the Caterham in 1973 when the jigs and tooling were sold off. Contains a detailed description of manufacture and assembly, racing and driving experience.

Lotus and Caterham Seven: Racers for the Road by Johnny Tipler on Amazon