Britain's "remarkable automotive cottage industry"

[Trevor Legate]

KeithBrown

Hi - yes I have touched on my next book somewhere back in a post - somewhere....so here it is again with added info:

The title will be 'Cobra - The First 40 Years' and covers - you're ahead of me - the first ...forty...years. I had intended to do an update of my last effort with as many new photos as possible, but i actually sat down and read what I had written and soon realised I had to start all over again, so I did and carried on till I stopped, so to speak. Cobra The Real Thing was around 50,000 words and my latest is 85,000 and growing, with the recent Shelby /CAV, AC closing, AC opening, Shelby/AC excitement. Should work out to around 340+ pages. I have gathered a lot of new photos from various sources and still hope to shoot more stuff before the book is finalised. Always looking for more great images, new or old!!! (Subtle hint) I produced a leaflet advertising the book and handed out about 1500 at Techno Essen (one the the best car shows anywhere) stating that it would be published by the end of 2003. But I was wrong. Other things got in the way (a need to earn money) and I HOPE that layout work will start in a week or two. This being a brand new, self-publishing effort I would love to find a co-publisher, preferably in the USA. Motorbooks took my first book and Heel gmbh in Germany did a translation of my second. Such a tie-in would help offset production costs.
If anyone out there is desperate to see my latest "masterpiece" (my quote) in print, just send a genuine cheque for a mere $40,000 and we can rock and roll! As my old Gran used to say - if you don't ask, you don't get. Anyone wanna buy a book?