RAC Rally Action!

This new print has been revised and freshened up in paperback, with many new photographs documenting Tony's photographs taken through the eyes of someone who took a week off every year to follow the RAC around the country, truly an enthusiasts perspective. Tony is a professional illustrator. Once he caught the rally bug, he trekked around the RAC route between 1964 and 1983, clocking up some 28,000 miles in a Mini Cooper, Vauxhall Magnum and a BNC 1800 ... he managed to eventually obtain press passes and plates from the Royal Automobile Club's Press Office, which helped enormously. Using his trusty Zenit (a Russian copy of a Leica) with a cheap lens, he was an early adopter of colour film. What makes Tony's record particularly interesting is that he did not just concentrate on the front-runners - he has plenty of clubmen struggling hard. The book also contains a few route maps showing what an amazing event the RAC rally was in the times when the rally really was a rally of Great Britain. - Old Stager. This book reissued by Veloce Publishing traces the history of the 1960 RAC Rally, the year of the creation of the first special stage closed to traffic, in 1983, the last year of the old fashioned rally before the appearance of Group B. This book was written by Tony Gardiner, a sort of knowledgeable spectator who, as a professional illustrator in life, had a passion for photography. He admits himself that his work is mostly a collection of photos, most taken by himself. But it offers a great range of cars from those blessed years when the rally was not a "calculated" sport like today and where the drivers engaged almost "any car." No less than 335 photos illustrate this book of 208 pages rich in atmosphere and having at least the merit of containing a caption explanation for each illustration. - AUTOnews Redaction. The RAC Rally Action book is very well put together, well written with pages and pages of superb photographs. It gives a great knowledgeable insight into the history of the event from the 1960s through to the 1980s. I can fully recommend this book for rally enthusiasts with it's wonderful stories. A big must for your ever expanding bookshelf. - Don Barrow Rally Navigation Equipment. If you haven't already, read it; it's worth the price. - IRDC Quattro.