[DeTomaso] New 351C book to be released soon

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/27/11 8 35 9, bjbstewart at yahoo.com writes:


> Cool - written by Des Hammill.  Anyone (I'm sure you have) heard of him? 
>  Has he got the street cred? 
> 

I've never heard of him.   I suspect it's an Australian production.   

Amazon lets you preview pages from the book, and it's really fascinating.   
The first few pages go deep, deep into the production and design history, 
naming lots of names etc.   Turns out there were two competing designs for 
the cylinder heads, one by a guy named George Sirrat, and the other by Joe 
Macura.   The resulting designs were coded 335-S and 335-M accordingly.   
Macura's design won, which is why we subsequently had the 351M and 400M engines.

I couldn't resist and pre-ordered a copy for myself.   Amazon makes it a 
bit hard, because it appears as though you can only do so by signing up for 
their frequent-flyer club, which is free at first but then costs $79 a year.   
But if you look around, you can find 'no thanks' buttons here and there, 
and once you drill through the sales pitch, you can get to a conventional 
ordering page where you can pre-order your copy.   They only cost $20 by the 
way.   

Delivery is projected to be late November.

Mike