Buys April 21, 2020
Claude Deane: cars to snake oil salesman
Car salesman Claude Deane was one of those larger than life characters that made his fortune later in life as a snake oil salesman, reports BILL BUYS.
Category: Page turners
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Louis Renault built first car in garden shed
Louis Renault built his first car in the garden shed more than 120 years ago. You can read all about it in a new page turner, reports BILL BUYS.
Buys November 5, 2019 Ricciardo winds it off the clock
F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo got more than he bargained for when he took the very first Renault for a spin in his hometown Perth, reports BILL BUYS.
McKay September 23, 2019
Triple F1 world champion, canny engineer and car developer . . . and pants’ man
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
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
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 It turns out they were originally made by a Frenchman…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?
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…