Spidey as Phil Hill? I can believe it

[Historybuff]

I guess pictures of Phil Hill must be plentiful, I think the guy writing the book (not me) has enough art on Hill (especially when I think the book discusses mainly one year, 1961. ) But the search for pictures , articles, interviews (in any language) of Count Wolfgang "Taffy" von trips. I saw a book on him at a swap meet just last Sunday but lost the lady's number . I will try to find her as she's the daughter of Clive Cussler the famous novelist and car collector (over 100 cars but no Cobras!) I guess I could always writethe Cussler Museum in Colorado.
That book had a black and white picture of Count von Trips and a swatch of orange on the hardback cover and was about 15" x 12". If anybody has this book I will put together some Cobra photos and memorabilia to trade for it, no matter how battered the cover is. Write photojournalistpro@hotmail.com

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

...Clive Cussler the famous novelist and car collector (over 100 cars but no Cobras!)

Really? I thought he owned a copy of every car his hero drives - in fact, for my taste he makes a little too much in each novel of whatever classic car he bought with the last novel's proceeds.

His hero drives a Cobra in Raise the Titanic. I was just looking for a copy of that the other day to re-read the passages - good, Gumball Rally stuff about driving such a beast in the fuel-starved, dismal mid-1970s.

But then, RTT has become something of an embarrassment, steamrollered by reality... and let's not even get into the Moller flying car of a later book...

[Historybuff]

It won't include his time with Cobras. The author wants to solely build up
the story to the year 1961 when Hill and his team-mate, a German count, were both on the Ferrari team but battling each other for the world title in F1. The screenwriter is the guy who just wrote a movie about soccer with Matt Damon. Not a car guy but you could say a sports movie guy.