This truly is a must-have book for anyone who owns or, especially, is restoring any model from Holden’s 1968-1971 HK-HT-HG range. Dr Norm Darwin’s latest Holden tome ($65) includes (almost) everything you could conceivably want to know about the models.
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The SEAFORTH Grand Parade
Book Review by Hugh King (Chairman, AMHF) Bruce Polain has a sharp sense of what matters most to the older motor enthusiast. He not only conceived and gave life to […]
Historic Ferrari & Grand Prix Cars – My Life by Spencer Martin
This book is a personal insight into the racing career of Spencer Martin, mostly seen through his own eyes. Early day influences and career defining moments, it charts his rise […]
Early Australian Automotive/Automobile Design*; The first fifty years.
I have copies of previous books penned by Norm Darwin, – History of Ford in Australia, 100 Years of GM in Australia, and others. Early Australian Automotive Design (The first fifty […]
‘Dyno’ Dave. The Yella Terra Story
Part family history and personal anecdote, part business and motoring history, ‘Dyno’ Dave’s memoir is a valuable contribution to the literature of motoring in Australia. Bennett is primarily remembered for […]
SUNRAYCER and the World Solar Challenge 1987 & CONFESSIONS OF A FAST WOMAN
Darwin to Adelaide – the 1987 BP World Solar Challenge, six hard days and 3200 kms down the Stuart Highway, each car powered by nothing but the solar rays …
PRODUCING THE FIRST HOLDEN ENGINES: The 1946 Journals of a Tool Engineer
This remarkable, large and very specialised local work deserves a full review from our own specialist in matters of Australian motor manufacturing lore, the redoubtable …
AINTREE DOWN UNDER Warwick Farm and the Golden Age of Australian Motor Sport
I cannot recommend this book too highly; Andrew Moore, as well as being a keen enthusiast, is also an adjunct professor at Western Sydney University where he taught Australian History […]
RACE ACROSS THE WORLD – The Incredible Story of the World’s Greatest Road Race
Another superb book in our growing library on Australia’s motor heritage, this new tome is an authoritative insider’s account of an unrepeatable event that went …