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Author: Trevor Pyman, Hardbound, 168 Pages, ISBN: 9781870519076, 1st Edition, 1990, Foreword by Ivor Walkett
- Second- Hand book in excellent order !
Ginetta Cars Limited is one of the very few remaining totally British car manufacturers that has survived since the nineteen-fifties.
For thirty-two years the business of designing and building sports and racing cars has been run, uninterrupted, under the same
family ownership of the brothers' Bob, Ivor, Trevor and Douglas Walklett.
The Walklett name is synonymous with Ginetta and has been since day one, yet in November of last year, they sold their controlling interest in the company and an era had ended. Ivor, however, continues as a director of the newly run company while the other brothers have taken a well-earned retirement —thus a new era for Ginetta has begun.
This book is a tribute to the skill of the four brothers' independence throughout those years, and Trevor Pyman, suitably, tells the story here of the most nostalgic of all Ginetta models, the G4 (which coincidentally now celebrates its 30th anniversary), in full, for the first time.
A much-admired sports/racing car, in the true sense of the meaning, that has captured the imagination of so many enthusiasts, worldwide, for three decades.
Trevor Pyman lives in Ma!don, Essex, and is married with two children. He is in his mid-thirties and works as a senior building surveyor for a local authority.
His interest in the Ginetta marque began in the mid-sixties while he was still at school. Living close to Witham, he first became aware of Ginettas after sighting several G4s in the hands of local owners who usually drove enthusiastically: there are few sights more inspiring than a G4 at speed. His interest and knowledge were further stimulated by making regular visits to the factory where the pace of the Walklett brothers' model development and racing programme was always evident and a consistent source of interest.
Peering through windows into the showroom and through gates into the yard at the rear, Trevor made notes of the variety of Ginettas that came to and went from the works, as well as collecting any information or memorabilia associated with the marque that he could lay his hands on. He became a Ginetta owner himself at the early age of eighteen. He now has a small collection which includes a 1958 G2, the oldest Ginetta car presently known to survive.
Having been an active member of the original Ginetta Owners Club, and now the present Owners Club, where he has acted as Club Registrar for the past ten years, his knowledge of the marque is wide.
