Full Tilt

A$37 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

'Bond is a true pioneer of our sport. Growing up in a motorsport family I knew the strong rivalry between Holden and Ford. Not many drivers have managed to cross over and be successful. Colin Bond was one of the first drivers to make the change and show it works.' - Craig Lowndes, three-time Australian Touring Car Champion 'A terrific memoir of a stellar career, and an insightful inside perspective of top-level motorsport, both rallying and racing, from the 1960s through into the 1990s.' - Australian Muscle Car 'The only driver to win the national rally and touring car championships as well as the Bathurst endurance classic, Bond holds a special place in the history of Australian motorsport.' - V8 Sleuth Bathurst winner, Australian Touring Car Champion, and the only man to have won on both sides of racing's most iconic rivalry - Ford versus Holden - this is the high-octane story of motor-racing legend Colin Bond. From his rallying crowns to his extraordinary Bathurst victory and his Touring Car Championship triumph, to the hugely controversial 1-2 Bathurst win with Allan Moffat in '77, Bond's career spanned the most thrilling decades of Australian motorsport. At the heart of it all was the fierce tribal battle between Ford and Holden - a rivalry Bond knew better than anyone. Against the backdrop of the golden age of motorsport, Full Tilt is packed with accounts of racing with and against other superstars like Peter Brock and Allan Moffat. It captures the drama, danger and int

• Binding: Hardcover

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