Doug Nye

Doug Nye

Doug Nye born October 1945 is an English motoring journalist and author. He lives in Farnham, Surrey, England.

He is generally recognized as a world authority on competition cars of any period from 1887, and is a consultant to the Bonhams auction house, the Collier Collection (in the USA) and sits on the Advisory Council of the British National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.[1] He has also consulted for The Dutch National Motor Museum, the Brooklands Museum in England, McLaren International and McLaren Cars Limited. He was a founding consultant to the SpeedVision TV network in the USA and to the Donington Collection of single-seater racing cars, and is Historical Consultant (founding) to Goodwood Motorsport - creators of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival Meeting.

At the age of 18 he went straight from grammar school to the staff of Motor Racing magazine based at Brands Hatch. Since then he has written more than 70 motor racing books.

He has presented assorted TV programmes covering motor racing and collectors' cars, and since 2004 - with colleague David Weguelin has produced the Motorfilms Quarterly series of 90-minute archival movie DVDs/video tapes.

He also is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and Motor Sport.[2]

Publications

partial list

  • Nye, Doug (1969). Racing Cars:. Fountain Press. 
  •   (1970). British Cars of the Sixties. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 0171480228. 
  •   (1972). The Story of Lotus 1961-1971. Bentley Publishers. ISBN 0837600510. 
  •   (1973). International motor racing. Crowell. ISBN 0690004281. 
  •   (1974). Great Racing Cars of the Donington Collection. Macmillan. ISBN 0333178130. 
  •   (1975). The Grand Prix Tyrrells: The Jackie Stewart Cars 1970-1973. Macmillan. ISBN 0333172868. 
  •   (1975). Motor Racing Mavericks. Batsford. ISBN 0713428562. 
  •   (1975). Racing car oddities. Arco. ISBN 0668037245. 
  •   (1977). British Grand Prix, 1926-76. Batsford. ISBN 0713432837. 
  •   (1977). Great Racing Drivers. Hamlyn. ISBN 0600375692. 
  •   (1978). United States Grand Prix. Hodder. ISBN 0713412631. 
  •   (1979). Dino: The Little Ferrari V6 & V8 Racing and Road Cars 1957- 1979. Osprey. ISBN 0850453305. 
  •   (1980). The Colonel's Ferraris: Maranello Concessionaires' racing team. Ampersand Press. ISBN 0906613027. 
  •   (1980). Powered by Jaguar: The Cooper, HWM, Tojeiro and Lister Sports-racing Cars. Motor Racing Publications. ISBN 0900549564. 
  •   (1982). Racers: Inside Story of Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Littlehampton Book Services. ISBN 0213168154. 
  •   (1983). Cooper Cars. Osprey. ISBN 0850454883. 
  • Moss, Stirling; Nye, Doug (1987). Stirling Moss: My Cars, My Career. Patrick Stephens. ISBN 0850599253. 
  •   (1983). McLaren: Grand Prix, Can-Am and Indy Cars. Hazleton Publishing. ISBN 0905138287. 
  •   (1989). Famous Racing Cars: Fifty of the Greatest, from Panhard to Williams-Honda. Patrick Stephens. ISBN 1852600365. 
  •   (1991). Classic Racing Cars: Postwar Front-engined Grand Prix Cars. Foulis. ISBN 0854297758. 
  •   (1991). Jim Clark. Hazleton Publishing. ISBN 0905138775. 
  •   (1992). Chaparral: Complete History of Jim Hill's Chaparral Race Cars 1961-1970. Motorbooks International. ISBN 087938607X. 
  •   (1992). History of the Grand Prix Car, 1966-91. Hazleton Publishing. ISBN 0905138945. 
  •   (1993). History of the Grand Prix Car, 1945-65. Hazleton Publishing. ISBN 1874557500. 
  •   (1994). Classic Sports and Supercars. Regency House. ISBN 1853614106. 
  •   (2003). BRM: The Saga of British Racing Motors: Front Engined Cars, 1945-60. Vol 1. Motor Racing Publications. ISBN 0947981373. 
  •   (2003). BRM: The Saga of British Racing Motors: Rear-Engined Cars, 1960-79. Vol 2. Motor Racing Publications. ISBN 1899870008. 
  •   (2008). BRM: The Saga of British Racing Motors: Monocoque Cars, 1964-68. Vol 3. Motor Racing Publications. ISBN 1899870644. 
  •   (2004). The Jack Brabham Story. Pavilion Books. ISBN 186205651X. 
  •   (2006). Ferrari: The Red Dream. Motorbooks International. ISBN 0760328277. 
  •   (2008). Goodwood Revival: The First Ten Years. Merrell Publishers. ISBN 185894449X. 

References

  1. ^ http://www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/?location_id=333/ Advisory Council, Beaulieu.
  2. ^ http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/magazine/contributors/

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