High Octane Adventure Stories by Top Gear magazine's Data Dad Ivan Berg.Three stories from the golden age of Motor Sport, the 1950s and 1960s.
Full Throttle - Wonder mechanic Charlie tunes a vintage Bentley for his pal Pete and opens the door to motor racing adventure...
Scorpion - The Story of a Racing Car - Against all odds, engineers Peter Russell and his business partner David Wilmer design and build a world-beating Formula One racing car...
To Monte For A Million - A tale of a mischievous old uncle, an extraordinary will, a million pounds, two playboy nephews, two Morris Mini-Coopers - and the thrilling Monte Carlo Rally...
These three stories were originally written and published as weekly serials in 1960 and 1961 in a comic-style magazine for boys called TV EXPRESS. I kept copies in an old cardboard suitcase that lived for 50 years in a dusty cupboard under the stairs. With three grandchildren, all boys, all of the ages of my long-ago readers, I thought it would be fun to see if the stories still had an appeal. They did. So here they are. Ivan Berg - October 2015
Front Cover Photograph courtesy of Bentley Motors - Brooklands Heritage Drive Photographer - Nick Dimbleby
About the Author: Ivan Berg was BBC Top Gear Magazine's Data Editor and New Technology Editor from its launch in 1993 up to 2010 and is said to know almost everything there is to know about cars. He has written on motoring and technology tor BBC Top Gear magazine and the London Evening Standard and wrote, produced and presented the Top Gear Full Metal Racket tapes. In the 1960s he scripted Britain's only motor racing television drama series"The Chequered Flag"
He is also the author of several motoring books including The Guinness World Car Record - and the creator of Revs Ransome, the 1960s strip cartoon hero of TV Express.
In 2006, together with his son Nik, also a motoring journalist, he wrote the best-seller Top Gear Motor Mania - also available on Amazon in both print and Kindle editions.
