The Commodore nameplate has been a dominant icon of Australian motorsport since its first touring car racing appearance in 1980, and in 2019 it celebrated the significant milestone of claiming its 500th championship race win.
Never before attempted, this 360 page, hardcover, limited edition collector’s book by award-winning author ......
This much-updated second edition of the Maserati 300S by Walter Baumer, includes many corrections and additions to the original text that have been uncovered in the last ten years. Almost all the photographs are new and previously unpublished, making the book an exciting addition to any Maserati library. The first edition was published in 2008. ......
Founded by John Heath and George Abecassis, the HWM racing team set out in 1950, the year of the Formula 1 World Championship’s inauguration, to race its Formula 2 cars all over Europe in a unique British endeavour. Always run on a shoestring, HWM’s single-seaters achieved great results in flying the flag with mainly British drivers, most ......
Die-cast model car with detailed interior and opening parts (bonnet and all four doors).
The 2018 Supercars season will see flying Kiwi Fabian Coulthard in his third season with DJR Team Penske / Shell V-Power Racing Team in the #12 Ford Falcon.
The 2017 season was an impressive year for Coulthard, who combined with team ......
A celebration of Australian motorsport, the Bob Jane T-Marts Bathurst 99 event in October 1999 was held on the traditional long weekend at Mount Panorama, albeit with a difference.
The two-litre Super Tourers competed in a 500-kilometre endurance race while the new V8-powered Commodore and Falcon Bathurst Tourers competed in ......
Why is it best to practice your champagne celebration ahead of the big day? How do you tell a multiple F1 champion they need to check their blind-spot? And how do you face down your boss when youve just stacked his multi-million pound car into a wall during practice? In his brilliantly-written and revealing new book, expert driver Jenson Button ......
TWO-LITRE Super Tourers were a huge part of world motorsport in the 1990s and the pint-sized tin-top category had plenty of fans ‘Down Under’ in Australia too.
On this Classic Australian Motorsport release we take a look back at the season reviews of the final three years of the TOCA Australia-run series with a wide range of ......
Brush up on your knowledge of all your favorite drivers, plus the new faces to look out for and see if you could be next World Champion with our hints and tips for racing into the fast lane. Packed full of quizzes and puzzles to challenge even the most devoted speed demon, the Formula One Annual for 2020 is a read sure to keep fans, young and ......
Are you the next Lewis Hamilton? How to be F1 Champion provides you with the complete guide to hitting the big time in top-flight motorsport, with advice on the correct look, through to more advanced skills such as remembering to insert for sure at the start of every sentence, and tips on mastering the accents most frequently heard at press ......
Automotive journalist Karl Ludvigsen, born in 1934 in the USA and one of the greats in automobile history, opens his archives in this book. In more than 50 years as a motor journalist, author, and an automobile historian, he has accumulated a comprehensive knowledge of his subject, and has met all the prominent figures of the automobiles golden ......
John Godfrey Parry Thomas - J.G Thomas - was by any standards an extraordinary man, in both life and in his tragic death. From a conventional upbringing as the son of the curate of Rhosddu in Wales in 1884, he became a prominent figure in the developing world of high-speed motor car racing and design. He became the chief engineer at Leyland ......
Theres no other motor-racing circuit in Australia that holds the same magic as Bathursts Mount Panorama. Its been home to the Australian Grand Prix, the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and TT, the Australian Hill Climb Championship, the Bathurst 1000 and now a round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. To win on the Mountain is still the ......
In early 1959, young Harry Heuer, Executive Vice President of the Peter Hand Brewery, Chicago, Illinois, caught the racing bug. He immediately bought a race carand entered it in the May 1959 Meadowdale USAC professional race. At the same time, Reventlow Automobiles Inc., builder and racer of the Scarab, put both of its 1958 race-winning Scarabs ......
This new edition of a classic book tells the story of the celebrated Ford GT40 through a remarkable array of over 850 period photographs, many of them in colour. After Ford unsuccessfully attempted to buy Ferrari, in 1963, the American car giant instead embarked on its own racing programme in a bid to beat the famous Italian marque at the ......
When Valerie Pirie interviewed for her first real secretarial job after college, she did not expect to end up working for Stirling Moss. Regarded as the greatest driver who was never crowned world champion, he would become not only her new boss, but a lifelong friend. Here, in this playful and moving memoir, she opens up about the man behind ......
Carroll Shelby, legendary driving ace, race team owner, and designer of Shelby Cobra, Daytona, and Mustang GT350 classics is revered by automotive enthusiasts, yet little has been written about the last quarter century of Carroll Shelbys life. During that time Chris Theodore, VP at Chrysler and Ford, developed a close personal friendship with ......
Four victorious Nissan GT-R races from the vault
THE Nissan GT-R will forever remain one of the most devastatingly fast cars in the history of Australian touring car racing and on this release we celebrate four of its best races.
The six-cylinder, twin-turbo, four-wheel-drive car dubbed ‘Godzilla’ only competed ......
No driver is as connected to a track as the legendary Peter Brock is to Bathurst. October 2019 marks half a century since a shy and bearded Brock first took on the turns of Mount Panorama, the track he was destined to dominate with a record nine wins, earning him the mantle King of the Mountain. That uncanny relationship between driver and ......
The real Burt Munro, inventor of the worlds fastest Indian motorcycle, in his own words. A fascinating collection of Burt Munro memorabilia including photos from his family album, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Burt himself, this book reveals the real Burt Munro - the man behind the movie. Roger Donaldson has been studying Burt Munro ......
Toyota’s unique brand of luck came to the fore once again at the 2019 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Although the race finished with a 1-2 for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team, the finishing order saw a dramatic change in the final hours of the action, in a way that always seems to strike Toyota on the Circuit de la ......
Toyota’s unique brand of luck came to the fore once again at the 2019 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Although the race finished with a 1-2 for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team, the finishing order saw a dramatic change in the final hours of the action, in a way that always seems to strike Toyota on the Circuit de la ......
50 years of Salzburgring: Built in 1969 at athe same time as the old OEsterreichring, the high-speed circuit at Salzburgs gates was often the scene of legendary slipstream duels and highly dramatic battles in the rain. 50 years of Salzburgring also means victories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, along with plenty of racing passion. But ......
Comprises Bathurst XU-1 Torana 1973 softcover book plus a print of the Colin Bond / Leo Geoghegan Torana XU-1 - personally signed by Colin Bond and Leo Geoghegan. This unique print is shrink wrapped onto a backing board and measures 33cm x 23 cm.
Limited edition - only 29 copies available
Comprises a Hardie Ferodo 500 1970 hardcover book plus a photograph of the Moffat XW GT-HO Falcon - personally signed by Allan Moffat. This unique photograph is shrink wrapped onto a backing board and measures 25cm x 20cm.
Limited edition - only 18 available.
Comprises a Hardie Ferodo 500 1969 hardcover book plus a print of the Geoghegan brothers Falcon XW GT-HO - personally signed by Leo and Ian Geoghegan. This unique print is shrink wrapped onto a backing board and measures 29cm x 23 cm.
Limited edition - 19 copies available.
This bundled set comprises Bathurst 500 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 hardcover book plus a print of the Geoghegan brothers Falcon XR GT personally signed by Leo Geoghegan. This unique print is shrinkwrapped onto a backing board and measures 34cm x 23 cm.
Limited edition - only 16 copies available
The Lola T70 was developed in 1965 for sports car racing - Lola built the chassis, which were typically powered by large American V8 engines, predominantly Chevrolets and Fords. The T70 was prolific throughout the mid- to late-1960s, and over 100 examples were built in three versions - both open-topped and coup models. The first successes for ......
SOUTH Australia has an amazing history within the annals of Australian motorsport and on this release we celebrate some of the great races from Adelaide International Raceway. First opened in 1972, this 2.4-kilometre circuit first hosted an Australian Touring Car Championship round that year and was the annual home of the championship in the ......
BATHURST 1000 HIGHLIGHTS 2012
Retro was the theme in 2012. Several teams looked to the past for inspiration, and there were some fantastic looking efforts. Bottle-O Racing went for the subtle approach, adopting the colours of the 1967 winning Harry Firth/Fred Gibson Falcon XR GT with matching retro grid girls The race that marked ......
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