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Author: Bill Tuckey, Hardbound, 252 Pages, ISBN: 9780646382319, First Edition, 1999 - **VERY RARE BOOK WITH SIGNATURES BY VARIOUS COMMODORE RACING DRIVERS INCLUDING THE LATE PETER BROCK**
Most books about the creation of a great car are one-dimensional. They record history, but not the emotion. Designing, building and selling cars is not a business of mechanical things, nor even lately of images generated on computer screens.
It is about people.
It is about the driven, about how those people are consumed by the idea that they can every day cake one more tiny step forward to advance the DNA of a unique transportation concept that began late last century.
Sometimes that step is more bold, more risky. Such was the Holden Commodore.
Over 21 years from its spectacular birth through what sometimes promised spectacular failure, it triumphed over the astonishing peaks and valleys that graphed Holden's progress towards today's success.
This is a book about the people and the passions that made it all possible •— and the stories nobody could tell you at the time.
Bill Tuckey is one of Australia's most senior and best-known motoring writers. The author of 18 books, including the controversial Rise And Fall Of Peter Brock, he also hosted the first motoring show on Australian television in 1967, wrote two 1979 Repco Trial films for TV and cinema, was behind the microphone for five years with his own breakfast and drive current affairs radio programs in Melbourne, and raced touring cars for 10 years, including three Bathurst enduros.
He has been motoring editor of Business Review Weekly since the inaugural issue in 1981 and today is active on the speaker circuit and has his own internet web site.
His next book, to be published by Quill Visual Communications, is The Fastest Coffin On Water, the remarkable story of the world water speed record holder,
