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Golden Miles - The Australian Muscle Car - Clinton Walker
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'Golden Miles' - Sex, Speed & The Australian Muscle Car by Clinton Walker in excellent condition.
The blurb:- 'Golden Miles' is an auto biography, a book about cars, people and place. Australia in the late 60s/early 70s was a young country bursting at the seams: charging through a brief window of opportunity between the end of colonialism and the beginning of globalism, the muscle car was the archetypal product of Australian suburbia, a fusion of the larrikin spirit and the sexual revolution, the Me Generation in overdrive...
'Golden Miles' is a social history of these cars - the Holden Monaro, Falcon GT, Valiant Charger and others - whose sex drive has endured so strongly that they are now being reborn.
With the energy and irreverent humour of a fanzine, the acuity of investigative journalism and the eye of an art book, this new, updated edition of 'Golden Miles' takes Australian non-fiction to a high level. As a critique of consumerism, a meditation on beauty, loss and national identity, and a rollicking yarn full of action and colourful characters, it is a reminder of a time when Australia - the world - was a wilder, freer place; a time when the muscle car ruled our lazy highways with a promise of danger and desire that casts a spell still.
Contents page is shown in photo 3.
238 pages. Published by Wakefield Presss Ltd in 2009. ISBN 978-1-86254-854-1 [Approx 24 x 17.5 x 2.5cms & 980g]
This book is in excellent condition with pages clean, tightly bound and no creasing of the spine. A few signs of use/storage to the cover as per photos 1 & 2 with a line indentation to the front and little bend to some corners [nothing bad].
Please note:-
- Inspections welcome. I won't get offended if you decide that this is not for you.
- Best to phone [three&two zero&nine seven&one eight&two] if you are keen to collect. I will respond to messages but often only get to check them late in the evening, and I don't use a mobile so please check your email for replies.
- Please check your Spam folder if you are expecting a reply and it hasn't shown up. Email services regularly misidentify Gumtree messages as such.
The blurb:- 'Golden Miles' is an auto biography, a book about cars, people and place. Australia in the late 60s/early 70s was a young country bursting at the seams: charging through a brief window of opportunity between the end of colonialism and the beginning of globalism, the muscle car was the archetypal product of Australian suburbia, a fusion of the larrikin spirit and the sexual revolution, the Me Generation in overdrive...
'Golden Miles' is a social history of these cars - the Holden Monaro, Falcon GT, Valiant Charger and others - whose sex drive has endured so strongly that they are now being reborn.
With the energy and irreverent humour of a fanzine, the acuity of investigative journalism and the eye of an art book, this new, updated edition of 'Golden Miles' takes Australian non-fiction to a high level. As a critique of consumerism, a meditation on beauty, loss and national identity, and a rollicking yarn full of action and colourful characters, it is a reminder of a time when Australia - the world - was a wilder, freer place; a time when the muscle car ruled our lazy highways with a promise of danger and desire that casts a spell still.
Contents page is shown in photo 3.
238 pages. Published by Wakefield Presss Ltd in 2009. ISBN 978-1-86254-854-1 [Approx 24 x 17.5 x 2.5cms & 980g]
This book is in excellent condition with pages clean, tightly bound and no creasing of the spine. A few signs of use/storage to the cover as per photos 1 & 2 with a line indentation to the front and little bend to some corners [nothing bad].
Please note:-
- Inspections welcome. I won't get offended if you decide that this is not for you.
- Best to phone [three&two zero&nine seven&one eight&two] if you are keen to collect. I will respond to messages but often only get to check them late in the evening, and I don't use a mobile so please check your email for replies.
- Please check your Spam folder if you are expecting a reply and it hasn't shown up. Email services regularly misidentify Gumtree messages as such.
- Date Listed:22/02/2021
- Last Edited:22/02/2021
- Condition:Used
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