Andrew Frankl - Frankly Frankl

Frankly Frankl: Life, Love, Luck & Automobiles ($49.95), is a fascinating book, celebrating Andrew Frankl's 50 year career in all matter of automotive- related media.The Hungarian-born journalist, publisher,broadcaster and TV commentator has some wonderful anecdotes. The sweetest chapter is entitled Love Story, which tells the extraordinary romance with his second wife, Suzie. The childhood sweethearts were separated for many years as he was obliged to flee his native Hungary during the Revolution of 1956, but were reunited 32 years later and married in September 1996. Who says there are no fairy tales in motor racing?

Andrew Frankl is a native of Hungary, leaving Hungary in 1956, and ending up in the U.K., where he attended the University of Sheffield. He worked at Ford and has stayed on the automotive/sports track ever since. Frankl was the owner, publisher and writer of Car Magazine (similar to Car & Driver in the U.S.). He launched two magazines on trucks, sold the company and ended up in California. Currently he is Grand Prix editor and feature writer of Forza, a Ferrari magazine published in Novato, CA and European Bureau Chief of the Autochannel, an automotive site established in 1995. His radio work includes co-hosting a car show here in the Bay Area. He also works for Hungarian TV/radio, Grand Prix racing and the Olympics. He currently lives in Marin County and London.

 

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