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Hamilton created history on 19-20 April 2008 by hosting New Zealand's inaugural Australian V8 Supercars street race. The decision to locate the 3.4 km track in the heart of the central business district makes the Hamilton 400, arguably, the most genuine street circuit on the V8 Supercar calendar. The Hamilton circuit is also the most spectacular, with eight turns, speeds topping 240 kmph and, importantly, three distinct overtaking opportunities - the key to a successful race. This book is a celebration of the inaugural Hamilton 400... read more

A new car culture was born when the first wave of Japanese performance vehicles arrived in New Zealand in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Forty years on and it's still going strong. With over 450 photos, Revolution takes a look at the people, the cars and the events that helped shape this exciting and diverse Japanese automotive lifestyle.

SPECIAL PRICE For the first time in book form New Zealand's foremost mostorsport photographer, Terry Marshall, has collected together over 250 superb motor racing images from his historic archives. This highly collectible volume of motorsport images will transport readers back to a golden age of New Zealand motorsport where they can witness, once again, the power of bellowing V8 saloons and the thunderous blitzkrieg of Formula 5000 single-seaters...Strap-in for an action-packed ride through New Zealand's motorsport heritage... 232 pages.

The Monaco Grand Priz in May 2007 will see the 40th anniversary of Kiwi motor racing champion Denny Hulme's win there in 1967, followed in August by the 30th anniversary of his victory at the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring - two of the most demanding races on the calendar that year. It was also the year of his most successful season when he won the world championship for the Repco-Brabham team with 51 points from team owner Jack Brabham, who finished with 46 points. The book will tell the story of Denny Hulme, affectionately know... read more

The 1960s and '70s were the golden years of motor racing and Phil Kerr was part of that world. This book tells the inside story of those years - the triumphs and the tragedies, the deals and the disasters. From Phil's early years in Auckland and his teenage friendship with Bruce McLaren, through their first years away from New Zealand achieving better and greater things in motor sport, and on to the inside workings of those two great racing teams, the text is accompanied by plentiful colour and black and white photos, many never pu... read more

People are unfair to the car. They criticise what it has done to society, without giving due recognition to what is has done for society

This book documents and celebrates the many different camping conversions built on the Volkswagen Transporter and Microbus base across five decades. Until the advent of the new T5 generation in 2004, Volkswagen never made a factory-fitted camper, preferring to approve conversions carried out by firms such as Westfalia, Devon, Dormobile, Sundial and Danbury. However, many other different companies offered conversions on the VW base and the models produced by over forty different converters are described and pictured here.

The 2007 Formula One Championship was the first since the legendary 1986 season in which three drivers went into the final race with the possibility of being crowned champion. And not since that fateful year, when Mansell, Piquet and Prost went head-to-head, has a season so captured the world's attention and drawn so many new spectators to the sport - for reasons both on and off the track. It wasn't meant to be that way. When Fernando Alonso joined McLaren for 2007, the unspoken assumption was that the double world champion would s... read more

"The Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One" is the lavishly illustrated story of the world's most thrilling motor sport, from the first motor race in France back in 1894 to today's super-powerful vehicles driven by world superstars such as Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, men who exchange paint with one another at incredible speeds on circuits all round the world. This book tells you everything you need to know about F1, with information not only on the top teams and legendary drivers, but also on the great races, the most te... read more

If you want a heated debate among motor racing enthusiasts, then just throw into the conversation the name of the Formula 1 driver you think is the best the sport has ever seen, and watch the sparks fly. Well, to fuel the fires of disagreement further, legendary F1 journalist Alan Henry now reveals his top 100 Grand Prix drivers of all time. Although skills behind the wheel and the resultant success are obviously notable factors, Henry gives his subjects a much more rigorous assessment. He also considers the qualities of dignity, t... read more

A light-hearted memoir of one man's obsession with cars and all things automotive. John Wright is an automotive journalist and writer, now with Motor Magazine.

With 2003 being the 100th anniversary of the Ford Motor Company, this celebratory title tracks the history of Henry Ford, his innovations and their effect on the history of the 20th century. Included is the introduction of the assembly line, Ford family lore, labour relations and wartime retooling.

This book is the latest in the series that has included Bourne to Rally: The Possum Bourne Autobiography and Murph's Law - Greg Murphy's Autobiography. This book will have wide appeal to motor-racing fans and followers across all age groups, as much of New Zealand's major motor sport events have taken place at Pukekohe, from the 1950s to the final V8 Supercar major race there last year. The book covers both motorcycle and car race events. The Pukekohe track is held in high esteem and regarded with affection by the countless thousan... read more

100 Years Of Ford vividly tells the story of Henry Ford, his heirs and associates, and the automobile company they have overseen since 1903. Noted Ford historian David Lewis profiles a score of personalities from the company

A book bound to appeal to the millions of dedicated Formula One fans: every car, racer, driver, race detail and history in the sport's fifty-plus year history is listed here, along with over 4,000 photographs. Covering the sport from start to finish, this includes racers form the first winner , Farina, details of teams - Ferrari, Masserati, McLaren - and racers past and present, from Lauda, Jimmy Stewart, James Hunt, to today's champions. Special interest to Kiwis will be the listings for 1967, when Denny Hulme was world champion a... read more

The Greatest Formula 1 car ever; the concluding part of Steve Matchett's top selling F1 trilogy Former F1 mechanic turned TV broadcaster Steve Matchett is trapped overnight in New York, in a fogbound JFK Airport with some fellow motor racing enthusiasts. With no sign of the fog letting up and a long twelve hours to get through, talk inevitably turns to Formula 1. During the course of the night, and fuelled by regular trips to the departure lounge bar, the three protagonists, drawing upon Matchett's encyclopaedic knowledge of li... read more

The Greatest Formula 1 car ever; the concluding part of Steve Matchett's top selling F1 trilogy. Former F1 mechanic turned TV broadcaster Steve Matchett is trapped overnight in New York, in a fogbound JFK Airport with some fellow motor racing enthusiasts. With no sign of the fog letting up and a long twelve hours to get through, talk inevitably turns to Formula 1. During the course of the night, and fuelled by regular trips to the departure lounge bar, the three protagonists, drawing upon Matchett's encyclopaedic knowledge of li... read more

Special price, was $45. b&w photo illus. Very good+ in like wraps. 8vo. dustwrapper. 186pp. Traces the history of Car Crashes from the first road fatality in 1896 to the present day; details aspects of the technology and ethics of car safety; the dustwrapper quotes an ironic phrase made by the coroner of that first fatal road crash: "This must never happen again".

The General Motors Corporation was established in 1908 by William C. Durant, who combined the Buick, Oldsmobile, and Oakland companies and, later, Cadillac, to form GM. From the 1920s onwards, GM grew from a firm that accounted for about 10% of new car sales in the U.S. to become the largest producer of cars and trucks in the world. The peak of the company's power and market dominance came in the 1960s, which proved to be the decade of change for the U.S. auto industry. With the introduction of federal safety regulations and contro... read more

Golden Miles is an autobiography, a book about cars, people and place. Australia in the late 60s/early 70s was a young country bursting at the seams: Charging out a brief window of opportunity between the end of colonialism and the beginning of globalism, the muscle car was a product of archetypal Australian suburbia, a fusion of the larrikin spirit and the sexual revolution, the Me Generation in overdrive