An Old dog for a hard Road. The Inside Story of the 1979 Repco Round Australia Reliability Trial
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookman Whanganui.
Lone Tree Hill Press, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 150 pages. Illustrations. The 1979 Repco, often known as the Repco Round Australia, was a 14 day car trial circumnavigating the island continent of Australia. 167 crews started the event with 92 classified as finishers, however only 13 cars completed the entire route. The final results are provided here. The stunning 1-2-3 finish by the Holden Commodores, headed by Australia's best known driver, the late Peter Brock, was the public story of the event, however the countless other stories of competitors, service crews, organisers and spectators are not widely known. Many consider this to have been the last great round Australia trial. As was written on the back cover of Bill Tuckey's book, An old dog for a hard road, "The 12th round-Australia motoring event run since the first (1953) Redex, the 1979 Repco is now acknowledged as the toughest long-distance rally since the continent-to-continent epics of the first decade of the 20th century." Like earlier round-Australia trials and the London-to-Sydney epics of 1968 and 1977, crews were expected to drive virtually non stop for days at a time with limited rest breaks. Nowadays this would be considered irresponsibly dangerous. The Repco was run during what many consider to have been the golden years of Australian rallying, where many events were arduous and challenging. As such, no subsequent road rally event has reached the level of toughness of the Repco.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookman Whanganui.
Lone Tree Hill Press, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 150 pages. Illustrations. The 1979 Repco, often known as the Repco Round Australia, was a 14 day car trial circumnavigating the island continent of Australia. 167 crews started the event with 92 classified as finishers, however only 13 cars completed the entire route. The final results are provided here. The stunning 1-2-3 finish by the Holden Commodores, headed by Australia's best known driver, the late Peter Brock, was the public story of the event, however the countless other stories of competitors, service crews, organisers and spectators are not widely known. Many consider this to have been the last great round Australia trial. As was written on the back cover of Bill Tuckey's book, An old dog for a hard road, "The 12th round-Australia motoring event run since the first (1953) Redex, the 1979 Repco is now acknowledged as the toughest long-distance rally since the continent-to-continent epics of the first decade of the 20th century." Like earlier round-Australia trials and the London-to-Sydney epics of 1968 and 1977, crews were expected to drive virtually non stop for days at a time with limited rest breaks. Nowadays this would be considered irresponsibly dangerous. The Repco was run during what many consider to have been the golden years of Australian rallying, where many events were arduous and challenging. As such, no subsequent road rally event has reached the level of toughness of the Repco.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Elizabeth's Bookshops.
Sydney : Lone Tree Hill Press, 1979. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. The 1979 Round Australia Trial, officially the Repco Reliability Trial was the twelfth running of the Round Australia Trial. The rally took place between 5 and 19 August 1979. The event covered 19,000 kilometres around Australia. It was won by Peter Brock, Matt Philip and Noel Richards, driving a Holden Commodore.150 p. : Ill., port. ; 26 cm. #080522 First EditionAutomobile racing, Automobile rallies -- Australia., Repco round-Australia Reliability Trial; (1979)The 1979 Repco Reliability Trial, often known as the 79 Round Australia Trial, started at the Melbourne Showgrounds on Sunday August 5th and finished back there on Sunday August 19th after completing a full “lap” of Australia and some 19,000 km. It is generally considered to have been the toughest ever long distance rally in Australia. Of the 167 crews that started the event, 92 were classified as finishers, however only 13 cars completed the entire route.The first and last days of competition took place in Victoria with competitive stages initially in the Puckapunyal Forest near Tooborac, a special stage at Creswick, another near Heywood, and then a number of trial stages along the Vic/SA border. The final night of competition before the effective finish in Albury used roads in the Victorian Alps before a special stage in the Stanley Plantation near Beechworth.The winners of the event were Victorians Peter Brock, Matt Philip and Noel Richards in the 05 MHDT Commodore. Victorians also finished 6th (Wes Nalder, Ian Richards and Geoff Boyd in a Toyota Celica), 10th (Gil Davis, Phil Eather and Graham Toner in a Datsun 180B) and 11th (Bob Watson and Garry Harrowfield in a Peugeot 504 Diesel).Many other Victorians competed and performed well. Geoff Portman with his Shepparton crew of Doug Thompson and John Hammond lead the event into Adelaide in their Stanza but struck problems on the Nullarbor. The continued in the top ten until crashing before Sydney and dropping 7 controls. The best placed Victorians outside the top 13 were Hamilton based crew of Peter Hurrey and David Geddes, dropping only 5 controls in their Celica. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Near Fine.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, CarrieG93.
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Bound in brown boards, 10" x 6 5/16", 150 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Australian, automobile, road-rally racing. Hardcover, Edition: First, Label: Lone Tree Press, Lone Tree Press, Product group: Book, Published: 1979, Studio: Lone Tree Press, Sales rank: 13817855.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, CarrieG93.
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Bound in brown boards, 10" x 6 5/16", 150 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Australian, automobile, road-rally racing. Hardcover, ایڈیشن: First, لیبل: Lone Tree Press, Lone Tree Press, مصنوعات گروپ: Book, شائع: 1979, سٹوڈیو: Lone Tree Press, سیلز کے عہدے: 13817855.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, CarrieG93.
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Bound in brown boards, 10" x 6 5/16", 150 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Australian, automobile, road-rally racing. Hardcover, Ausgabe: First, Label: Lone Tree Press, Lone Tree Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1979, Studio: Lone Tree Press, Verkaufsrang: 10623836.