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Buys October 19, 2021

Tracks of Destiny: Idriess brings gold-rush to life

Buys October 19, 2021

HALLS Creek and Tennant Creek are small settlements about 1000km apart, both in univiting, arid conditions, in the proverbial middle of nowhere. The former is in Western Australia’s East Kimberley region, Tennant…

Buys September 6, 2021

Book captures glory days of York

Buys September 6, 2021

YORK, 97km east of Perth in Western Australia, is a magnet for motoring enthusiasts. The quaint farming town with its magnificent buildings dates back to 1831, but locals with a drop of…

Riley August 23, 2021

Kristensen puts it in print

Riley August 23, 2021

Tom Kristensen is one of motorsport's most successful drivers, with nine wins at Le Mans — six of them in a row.

Buys August 2, 2021

Murderous Gucci saga fits the Bill

Buys August 2, 2021

I NEVER imagined I’d ever be interested in a book about Gucci. But a glance at the cover of The House of Gucci in the bookshop made me pick it up…

Burrell May 7, 2021

Who was the mysterious L.A. Manwaring?

Burrell May 7, 2021

Before the internet there were books and the got to resource for cars the The Observer's Book of Automobiles -- but who wrote them? asks DAVID BURRELL.

Buys April 21, 2020

Claude Deane: cars to snake oil salesman

Buys April 21, 2020

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.

Buys March 10, 2020

Louis Renault built first car in garden shed

Buys March 10, 2020

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

Buys November 5, 2019

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

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…

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