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February 3, 2019
Bright boys know how to light farts
THE well-worn cover of book at the opshop caught my eye: 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do, it said, and it had typical 1950s UK boy magazine artwork: line drawings of…
Category: Page turners
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February 3, 2019
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January 30, 2019
Champion a bright spark
CHAMPION spark plugs are among the world’s oldest and most popular. But they’re just a brand name — or so I thought. It turns out they were originally made by a Frenchman…
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December 14, 2018
Whoops! Where’s the White-Out?
I’D never heard of a car called the Delaunay-Belleville until I saw a colour picture of one in Collector Cars of Australia. It’s a book by photographer Ken Stepnell, just published by…
McKay
November 16, 2018
Sabotage, a Mini and the 17,000km Marathon
A new book about the epic 10,000-mile London to Sydney Marathon opens with sensational claims that the race leader Lucien Bianchi’s Citroen was deliberately crashed into by a private motorist on the…
McKay
September 20, 2018
Book chronicles Australia’s two-wheel talent
Race Across The Great Divide celebrates the decade that saw Australia emerge from a motorcycling backwater to become the epicentre of some of the most successful two-wheel talent the world has ever…
Riley
June 9, 2018
The inside story of Intermeccanica
The Story of the Prancing Bull is is the definitive biography of Frank Reisner and his incredible sports car company, Intermeccanica – responsible for some of the most beautiful sports cars ever…
McKay
March 31, 2018
Mug shots, understeer and rock music
Two self-published books with largely motor sporting settings have hit the local market lately, with Brett Murray’s You Can’t Make That Shit Up garnering lots of media attention. It helps that ex-sports…
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December 6, 2017
Weighty tome ‘Nye’ on kills him
HEARD of Doug Nye? If you have an interest in motorsport, you probably have, since he’s the UK’s top motor racing historian and author of countless books. But right now he’s in…
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October 2, 2017
Age no barrier to this 70 something adventurer
WHO would think of riding a little pizza-delivery motorbike from the southern tip of South America, 11,000km all the way to New York – at the age of 74? Simon Gandolfi did…
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September 26, 2017
Lake Perkolilli book up for prestigious UK award
PERTH author, motor historian and vintage car racer Graeme Cocks is heading for yet another podium with one of his books – this one on the Lake Perkolilli race circuit. His Red…