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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I was nervous at first-isn’t everyone?-but after driving him round the block a couple of times doing a few turns and a reverse and answering the stock questions from the road code he gave me a column of ticks and I had my licence. At last. Now I was ready for business. With a brand-new licence and tweaked-up racer I was anxious to start dicing as soon as I could but there didn’t seem many events on the calendar suitable for a complete novice. Pop solved the problem by “finding” an ideal hill-climb venue. We had a summer house at Muriwai Beach some 25 miles from Auckland and Pop had been collecting road metal from the local quarry to lay a drive for the house. The quarry was at the bottom of a hill about five-eighths of a mile long and between truck loads of shingle it must have dawned on him that the road was tailor-made for competition. Being a local resident as well as Chairman of the Auckland Car Club he soon obtained permission for the ACC to use the hill and I looked forward to the first event and my motor-racing debut. I’d taken it for granted Pop would let me compete! Unfortunately the first hill-climb coincided with one of Pop’s rare visits to hospital but my entry was accepted and I was in the paddock polishing the little Ulster and making all those nervous last-minute modifications that seem so im- portant. Not being able to give me a last-minute lecture Pop settled for a few well-chosen words from his hospital bed the general message being that if I so much as scraped a guard the Ulster and I would part company for good. (LL)