Cars that represent the ultimate experience in driving, selected by the best in the business, with photos by one of the top automotive photographers ever.

Dennis Adler with Jay Leno, Carroll Shelby, Sir Stirling Moss, Bob Bondurant, Dan Gurney, Sam Moses, Bruce Meyer, and Luigi Chinetti, Jr.

 

Through a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of votes from famous and prestigious
drivers, esteemed automotive photographer and journalist Dennis Adler reveals—for the first time—the cars listed as the best of the best by those who have actually driven them.

“There are cars,” says the author, “and then there are cars.” The expert panel picked fifty, from the rare to the unimaginable, agreeing that that the Top Five list includes the:

1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa
1913 Mercer Racabout
1932–37 Model SJ Dusenberg
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR
Maserati Birdcage

 The 50 cars in this book could change your entire perception of the automobile with one drive around the block. With stunning full-color photography representing the highest standard in the business and visceral descriptions of what it’s like to turn the key and rev the engine, 50 Cars to Drive is the next best thing to a test drive.

Sex. Power. Money.

 

It's the Drive that Counts.

 

 

“These are the fifty cars to drive before you die.”
—Sir Stirling Moss

 

 

“Picking fifty great cars from history is like choosing fifty great wines.
Each has its own special character and vintage. Each is an experience to be savored.”
—Luigi Chinetti, Jr.

 

 

“A lifetime of racing hones your skills.
Many of these are the cars in which we developed those skills.”
—Dan Gurney

 

 

“These are time machines that take you back to a time and place when driving
was an adventure.”
—Bruce Meyer

Imprint: The Lyons Press
Distributor: The Globe Pequot Press
Publication Date: 05-01-2008
Pages: 256
Measurements: 11.00in X 8.50in X 1.00in