Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Brock Yates' book

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

Interesting comments and suggestions. Reading “Piloti...” I get the impression that Enzo is always on the defensive as many of his drivers wrote books about their careers/lives with him and it isn’t always painted lightly... I imagine that Brock Yates is quite frank about Enzo as well?

 

Peter

 

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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dino308gt4=hotmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> on behalf of mysavard [at] videotron.ca <mysavard [at] videotron.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 10:29:47 AM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: 'The FerrariList'
Subject: [Ferrari] Brock Yates' book

 

I remember reading Brock Yates' book many years ago. He had set out to put down every single  accomplishment Ferrari had ever done and that's what he did.

This book I'm reading, is so much more interesting.

Yes there were times when he had no real competition. But that's only because all the others didn't reinvest every thing they had in their passion. Fiat turned him down, then Alfa Romeo turned him down when he was very young. Even Ford didn't understand him. He decided to do it alone. He did one thing all his life: Built his passion, built racing cars.

Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)

Le 28/01/19 12:01, Doug & Terri <dnt [at] dock.net> a écrit :

Yup - yer correct there Francis.  As I said - a very "Brock Yates" book.  What would you expect from a guy who pushed the "Cannon Ball Baker Sea to Shining Sea" race (see "Sunday Driver") and disguised one of his blasto runs sea to sea as an ambulance?  The shame of it all.
BUWHAhahahahahahahah
Onward
Doug

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From: francis newman [mailto:francis.newman [at] webshot.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 8:51 AM
To: Doug & Terri <dnt [at] dock.net>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Best book ever on Enzo Ferrari.

With respect Doug, Brock’s book is very fanciful with a load of complete inaccuracies including right at the beginning of the book the circumstances surrounding Enzo’s death.

It's a good read but not an historical exactitude.

Francis

> On 28 Jan 2019, at 16:21, Doug & Terri <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:
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> Brock Yates wrote a very “Brock Yates style” book titled “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine” selling on Abebooks for quite a bit less than $6,000.
> Fun read.  Fat book.
> Doug
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> From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Peter Rychel
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2019 10:39 PM
> To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net>
> Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Best book ever on Enzo Ferrari.
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> I had focused my Ferrari book collection more on the cars than the story of the man. I have the very few, essential books about him. After all these years, I just picked up for myself before Christmas his “Piloti Che Gente” work (in English).
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> Is this edition you mention Michel, along the same lines as the uber-expensive “Ferrari” limited edition written by Pino Allievi? This copy got a glowing review in the latest edition of the FCA Prancing Horse magazine, that I get the impression it is THE book on Enzo. I suppose so with a price tag of $6000 for a basic version...
> 
> It’s a sad realization that almost anybody that was directly involved with the Old Man have either left us, or are not doing too well now and are just as old as when he passed.
> 
> Peter
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