Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #280259 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

If only we could again!
No dry encyclopedic document nor a bland reprint of Motoring News reports. This is an a live account of almost the end of an amazing era (looking back), from a writer who not only regularly competed but was passionatly interested in the sport. Each rally is reported afresh, with additional information gleaned more recently from competitors, organisers and sponsors.
'Hindsight is wonderful' and no more so than here where the bland, almost biased, news reports of the time are refreshed and put into context with knowledge acquired soon and long after.
Results of every rally with Entry Lists, Route Cards, reprints of maps and additional information of classic sections, cars and crews.
You can smell the hot mud in the many, many photographs of not only the fast and famous, but also from the majority of those whose only claim was to have taken part. Even The Gnome is here.
Probably not to be read through, but more to be endlessly dipped into, this book is hard to put down and causes a longing to recreate those days.
As Peter Valentine's introduction ended "It was all just so much fun!"
If only we could again!