Description
Edited By Jack Pollard, Hardbound, 255 Pages, ISBN: B000QRKM4G, First Edition, 1966 - *Second-Hand book in excellent condition !
The motor carR has revolutionized modern living, and in the process of changing humans into motorists and pedestrians it has created a legend of pioneering, adventure, thrills, tests of endurance, and comedy.
In this book Jack Pollard has assembled the best stories about Australians and New Zealanders driving cars, from the first overland drive in 1900 to today's Armstrong 500. Motoring through an earthquake in New Zealand, carrying a Land-Rover into the highlands of New Guinea, racing at the old Maroubra speedway and at Mount Panorama, setting records on the highway between state capitals, battling through the gruelling Redex trials—every facet of motoring is covered, and all events are brought vividly to life by eyewitness reports and a fascinating array of photographs.
There is something for every interest and every mood. It may be the drama of Donald Campbell's land-speed record on Lake Eyre; the audacity of Hector MacQuarrie's drive in a Baby Austin to the tip of Cape York; the humour of Phil Dorter's Tin Lizzie or Barry Crump's broken-down truck; the trail-blazing of Hudson Fysh or Francis Birtles; re-living Jack Brabham's triumphs; accompanying George Farwell -on the Birdsville Track and Alan Moorehead on the Bitumen; or, for the non-motorist as well, going with Nino Culotta By Taxi to Kings Bloody Cross.
For all motoring enthusiasts this is an essential book for the bedside—or the glove-box.
