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Renowned as one of the greatest creative forces in the world of the automobile, Lotus?s Colin Chapman (1928?82) left a mixed legacy. Was he an unparalleled innovator or an uninhibited exploiter of the uncredited ideas of others? In this landmark book, celebrated author Karl Ludvigsen gets to grips with the legend, digging deep beneath the skin of Chapman and his cars to explore and expose the motivations that drove this mercurial and controversial genius. Interviews with key figures in the Chapman story mesh with information from the author?s extensive archives to make this book a unique and compelling encounter between the engineer-innovator and the historian-investigator.?Conceiving concepts: assessment of the man whom Keith Duckworth described as ?the most brilliant conceptual engineer I?ve known?.Engine enterprise: recognising that he was, in his words, ?not an engine man?, Chapman made the best of engines available to him, whether Ford 1172 side-valve, BRM H-16, Cosworth DFV V8
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