Customer Reviews

If only we could again! - By: ACP, 08 Jun 2008
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 interestedin the sport. Each rally is reported afresh, with additional information gleaned more recently from competitors, organisers & sponsors.
'Hindsight is wonderful' & no more so than here where the bland, almost biased, news reports of the time are refreshed & put into context with knowledge acquired soon & long after.
Results of every rally with Entry Lists, Route Cards, reprints of maps & additional information of classic sections, cars & crews.
You can smell the hot mudin the many, many photographs of not only the fast & 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 & 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!