The Road Rat Issue 7 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Issue Seven sees disassembling the greatest of all sports car myths – that of the Porsche 911. Gordon Murray opens up his notebooks on the development of what may be the last great ICE sports car, the T.50. Plus muscle cars, Mercedes’ Großer and the German industry’s problematical Kleine, Jag’s internecine supercar battle, Bill Mitchell, BMW’s design departure, Brabham’s rock and roll years, and the lost British 24-hour race.
The Road Rat Magazine is the world’s most beautiful car magazine. It is a new kind of car magazine. Not overly obsessed with the detail of old cars nor over-impressed with the performance of new; the magazine instead firmly believes there are good stories — real stories, stories to consume with relish — in both old and new and in racing too. But above all The Road Rat believes in the glory of magazines; lush, beautiful, valuable, collectable and exquisitely crafted magazines. Think of us as a carefully-curated bookshop or an horizon-widening record store. We are proudly analogue and believe some things – but mostly beautiful cars – just belong in print. Our name comes from a saying that climbers have. ’Feeding the Rat’ is the need to deal with an obesssive need to climb. For us an open road, a track, a messy old garage and not a snowy mountain summit, is our ‘rat’.
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Issue Seven sees disassembling the greatest of all sports car myths – that of the Porsche 911. Gordon Murray opens up his notebooks on the development of what may be the last great ICE sports car, the T.50. Plus muscle cars, Mercedes’ Großer and the German industry’s problematical Kleine, Jag’s internecine supercar battle, Bill Mitchell, BMW’s design departure, Brabham’s rock and roll years, and the lost British 24-hour race.
Details: The Road Rat – Issue 7
English, 29 x 23 cm
