Alfred Cosentino is not only the first author of this most complete mature documentation to investigate 229 different ABARTH Automobili, also first to put them in chronological order, first to list each specification, first to make it possible to see each prolific variety of art on wheels in 456 big pages .....the first Amici dello Scorpione to accomplish a bit of posterity.  Carlo Abarth is the factory of victories, 7,227 from 1949 to 1971. This was the year FIAT bought Abarth, after they won 7 World Championships in 10 years. Before this "ABARTH GUIDE" was published in 1984, Abarth won more of the World Championships with and for FIAT and for LANCIA. Buy this New most plagiarized of all marques guide books, the originator of the imitators! Certainly there is no one else more over qualified than this multi talented author, a one-off foreign graduate of the Abarth & C. Racing University. `Excessive Pride Is Long Over Due'.  Who else made 51 trips from 1963 to Abarth, knew every Abarth artisan, owned over 100 Abarths, is the most winning Abarth driver, the mechanic for 133 victories in 158 races with Abarths? The 4,250 published pages, designed and prepared camera ready by the author, have become the most printed matter catalog books, books, ads, et cetera, than all other sources about Abarth in these mediums combined. This "ABARTH GUIDE" book is NEW and signed. Has 655 pictures to dazzle the automobile diamond heads trivializes and deniers, if they ever dare to read truth / know romantica / sense - feeling / recognize beauty. Thank the most prestigious publisher of over 300 art book titles, the Nigensha Skills of hi-Tokyo. They are also recognized worldwide as the finest publisher printer.