Auto-Archives fund-raising book project

[scannon]

I have no fiduciary interest in this kickstarter project other than making a pledge. Jo and William Taylor are friends and members of LOCO. They run a publishing company called Coterie Press here in Colorado that mainly publishes high quality car books, many about Lotus. This kickstarter project is to fund the Auto-Archives, see details below.

 

More about Coterie Press: http://www.coteriepress.com/Home

 

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Auto-Archives: Automotive & Motor sport library and research center, is a 501© 3 nonprofit organization, located in Denver, Colorado. Within our office space we have 75,000+ automotive books and magazines from all over the world, as well as over 100,000 images from the photographic archives of Peter Darley, Ian Catt, William Taylor, and the Motor Racing collections of Classic Team Lotus and the Polygon Gulf Collection. The archive also has 1,000+ Race Event Programs, Race Media/Press Packs and probably the most comprehensive Lotus archive in the world.

 

With our 100,000 plus collection of historic motor racing images, we felt that the best way to share such an impressive array of motor history is by highlighting a special group of images and presenting them in a fantastic 12x12-inch, large format book 'Pit & Paddock.' The large format, 256-page book will feature over 200 images from the Auto-Archives library, all taken by Peter Darley in the 1960s and 70s.

 

Funds to produce and publish the book are being raised through the 'Kickstarter' website that some of you may have heard of. The project went 'live' last week, so please do have a look at it and let me know what you think. Check out the 3 minute promo video we made here in the office.

 

The selected images give the reader an insight into life off the track, and behind the scenes at race meetings found at paddocks and pit areas throughout Europe. Here at Auto-Archives, we are excited to bring you this stunning collection of historic images from the depths of our photo archives. These unique never before seen images portray a world that is long gone.

 

For this book to become a reality we felt that crowd funding through Kickstarter was the best way to reach out to the community of motor racing enthusiasts. Here is where you along with your fellow historic vehicle followers come into play by very kindly spreading the word of our Pit & Paddock book project via your website, newsletter, blog or social media outlets. Or, even by word of mouth!

 

First a little bit more about who is involved:

Photographer Peter Darley became hooked on motor racing first by racing a Mini Cooper in the UK back in the 60s, and they by travelling to as many races as he could. Living near so many circuits, he photographed many great races, at many great circuits, and in doing so visually chronicled an incredible golden period of motor sport in the 60s & 70s.

 

Interesting bit, what is the book about:

After a difficult selection process, the volunteers at Auto-Archives narrowed down the images to those taken at ten circuits around the U.K. and Europe. Deciding which circuits to choose developed into several lively discussions here at Auto-Archives. The monumental task of going through all the images and picking the images to support and breathe life to each circuit called for many coffee and tea breaks.

 

Who is supporting Pit & Paddock:

Lord March a good friend of Peter Darley, has kindly written the foreword to the book. Lord March is hugely respected as the creator of both the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival, and the Goodwood circuit is of course one of the tracks featured in Pit & Paddock. Furthermore, lending their support to the project, are Dan Gurney and Sir Jackie Stewart. They have both signed a small number of special, Limited Edition Art Prints of themselves. These prints are available to our Kickstarter pledgers depending on the pledge level. The images were taken by Peter Darley in the early 60s at Goodwood and Snetterton respectively.

 

The most important part, YOU:

The Kickstarter page for Auto-Archives project is

. We only have 28 days and counting to rally enough support to successfully fund this project. What we are asking from you is just your support in helping us, Auto-Archives to achieve the task of publishing this great book. We greatly appreciate your interest and remember anything helps. The book is our first undertaking to spread Auto-Archives mission “To be a world leader in the archiving of historic automotive & motor racing research materials".

 

From everyone here at Auto-Archives, thank you for reading this email and for spreading the word. If you have any questions, comments or would like to further help our Kickstarter project contact us at library@auto-archives.org or call at 303.933.2526. Keep in touch with our progress via Twitter: @auto-archives, Facebook page: Auto-Archives Library. Visit us at http://www.auto-archives.org.

 

Regards,

 

JO TAYLOR

Edited October 3, 2014 by scannon