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McKay September 23, 2019

Triple F1 world champion, canny engineer and car developer . . . and pants’ man

McKay September 23, 2019

Is there much we don’t know about Jack Brabham? As it turns out . . . yes, quite a lot. It’s a bold claim by the authors of this hardcover biography of…

Buys February 3, 2019

Bright boys know how to light farts

Buys February 3, 2019

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…

Buys January 30, 2019

Champion a bright spark

Buys January 30, 2019

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 It turns out they were originally made by a Frenchman…

Buys December 14, 2018

Whoops! Where’s the White-Out?

Buys December 14, 2018

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

McKay November 16, 2018

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

McKay September 20, 2018

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

Riley June 9, 2018

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

McKay March 31, 2018

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…

Buys December 6, 2017

Weighty tome ‘Nye’ on kills him

Buys December 6, 2017

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…

Buys October 2, 2017

Age no barrier to this 70 something adventurer

Buys October 2, 2017

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…