Australia's Greatest Motor Race 50 Years at Bathurst.
This huge book is the definitive history and a collectors must.
The Great Race Bathurst 50 Years - more details.
Monday, July 1, 2013
The Great Race Bathurst 50 Years Publication
Australia's Greatest Motor Race 50 Years at Bathurst.
This huge book is the definitive history and a collectors must.
The Great Race Bathurst 50 Years - more details.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Ghosts in the Bull Pens - Book by Tony Loxley and Dennis Newlyn
Ghosts in the Bull Pens: Speedway Racing at the Sydney Showground Royale
Forewords by Bryan Cunneen, Jim Airey, Doug Robson and Steve Raymond (OAM)
Over 350 images covering the years from the '20s to 1996.
Circus Life - Signed Book by Don Cox
Circus Life: Australian Motorcycle Racers In Europe In The 1950s
From the co-author of Australian Motorcycle Heroes 1949-1989 and the author of The Aussies & 2 NZ Blokes
Foreword by Australia’s 1969 world 250 champion Kel Carruthers Hard-cover 480-page book with more than 300 photographs, the majority previously unpublished Background on 40 Australians who raced in Europe from 1948 to 1960.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Australia's Elfin Sports and Racing Cars
Australia's Elfin Sports and Racing Cars
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| Australia's Elfin Sports and Racing Cars by John Blanden and Barry Catford |
book available here...
This is the limited print-run of the original 1997 publication in response to public demand.
It is a little known fact that the tiny Australian company, Elfin, was the world’s second largest producer/manufacturer of racing cars ever.
In the late 1950s, an imaginative, modest and dedicated South Australian, Garrie Cooper, realised his dream and began building a series of sports/racing cars in his small Adelaide factory. He called them Elfin, and the subsequent history of the marque is long and illustrious. From the first Streamliners, Cooper’s designs progressed through some of the most highly competitive sports and open-wheeler racing cars of their day, ranging from Formula Vees through to 'big banger' sports cars and the MR9 formula 5000 of the 1980s.
Champion racer, John Bowe, in his foreword to this book, expresses his belief that had Cooper been based in the United Kingdom he would have been a world class designer/constructor. Certainly his cars ran with the best, both at home and overseas, and a measure of their appeal is evident in the large number that are still competing in open competition and in Historic racing here and internationally.
The history of every known Elfin is covered in this book and register sheets give details of the current status of each car. The frank recollections of many who were intimately involved with the Elfin marque are fully recounted in this exhaustive history of one of Australia's great racing names.
In 1982, Garrie Cooper died, tragically young at 46. After his death Tasmanian Tony Edmondson and mechanic John Porter assumed the Elfin mantle, designing a new Formula Vee, the Crusader, and a Formula Brabham car.
In 1993, the Elfin name passed to Victorian Murray Richards, who set out to build a 'new generation' Elfin Clubman. In failing health, he in turn sold Elfin in 1998 to the enthusiastic and capable pair, Bill Hemming and Nick Kovatch, subsequently being taken over by the late Tom Walkinshaw.
book available here...
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