Originally Posted by Jim B.

Justin,

Funny you should say that about Clarkson, my sig shows I like reading his books.

He's just come out with a new one entitled "I know you got soul"

The blurb reads, "It's hard to put your finger on exactly what gives a machine "soul" but it's there in the heroic failure of Concorde to change the world, the mystifying faith of Count Zeppelin in his flammable airships, the deadly simplicity of an AK47, or the splendid pointlessness of the Dreadnought battleships.

\In "I know you got soul", Jedremy Clarkson celebrates the planes, trains and automobiles that matter to us anjd tells the stories of the geniuses, boffins and crackpots who put the ghost in the machine.


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Gotta start looking for that one on UK ebay one of these days...

The cover photo on the book, BTW, shows a new Rolls Royce Phantom.....