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Giles Chapman


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Giles Chapman is an award-winning writer and commentator on the industry, history and culture of cars. He began his career in 1984 in automotive consultancy, moving into magazine publishing in 1985. By 1991, he was editor of Classic & Sports Car, the world's best-selling classic car magazine. Since 1994, he's worked freelance across a huge variety of media. Today, he contributes to national newspapers and motoring publications, and was voted Jeep Consumer Journalist Of The Year in 2005, BCA Feature Writer Of The Year in 2008, AA Environment Writer Of The Year 2011, and Classic Writer Of The Year in 2022 as well as being shortlisted as the 2022 Royal Automobile Club Journalist Of The Year.

He's the author of almost 60 books including 'My Dad ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 344 ratings · 53 reviews · 79 distinct works • Similar authors
My Dad Had One of Those
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The Car Book: The Definitiv...
4.34 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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Mini: 60 Years
4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions
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Drive: The Definitive Histo...
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Britain's Toy Car Wars: Din...
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Cars We Loved in the 1980s
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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The Worst Cars Ever Sold
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
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The VW Camper Story (Story ...
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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The VW Beetle Story (Story ...
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Cars We Loved in the 1970s
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“POP FACT Like the Passat and the Scirocco, the Golf was another ’70s VW named after a wind. In this case, Golfstrom, which is German for Gulf Stream.”
― Giles Chapman, My Dad Had One of Those
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