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[John Secchi]

Don
It translates: "specialist shops/stores"
Thats a lot more books on slot racing than i thought existed!
Good work
[oneofwos]

[Larry LS]

Geeeze If I had any of those books to look at when I started building slot cars in 1963 I would have given up and not raced slot cars then

Yeeee gods what a mish mosh of stuff.


Just kidding !!!

[lucio]

Is that last book still available? I'd love to get a copy ...

I think you can ask it to Giacomo: take a look to his site Amazing Slot or ask him or Mimmo personally at the next Vintage Meeting.

And no, I didn't know that they translated the Guy Williams book - what an odd choice! Looks like a straight translation too, not an adaptation - is the Italian any good? Somebody who knows the vocabulary? (for the opposite examples, see some of the earlier French and Spanish books...)

Italian form is corrected, except for a "two-lane" translated as "two-trace", anyway "slot-car" is never cited both in english than in italian

Thanks for the Polistil book too! In fact, I had forgotten about that one, and had no idea it was adapted from the article in Quattro... plagiarism or collusion between authors? (or the same author?).

when I asked to Adriano, he didn't knows anything about this book...