Off-Road Giants Volume 1

By Andy Westlake Published by Veloce ISBN 9787-1-845848-35-4 Soft cover 124 pages RRP: $69.99 Available from Pitstop Books (1800 622422) and Autobook World (02) 9231 6713 This is a newly-reprinted version of the original title in this popular series, and it is very good. The subject matter is very British, but if you followed the classic era of scrambling in the sixties, many of the names will be familiar; Triss and Bryan Sharp, Chris Horsfield, Bryan Goss, Bud Ekins, Eric Cheney and many more. Author Andy Westlake has interviewed most of these men and also traces company histories like AJS, Cotton, Cheney and Wasp. These were the days of massive crowds at meetings, even at the freezing cold and usually wet winter scrambles televised by the BBC in the Grandstand program. The book basically runs up to the swamping of the motocross scene by Husqvarna and CZ, but stops short of the Japanese invasion. A really interesting read with terrific period photographs. Published by Veloce 256 pages hard cover ISBN: 978-1-845847-90-6 RRP: $89.99 Available from Pitstop Books (1800 622422) and Autobook World (02) 9231 6713 As the author says in his Foreword, 18 million Vespas have been produced since 1946 – placed end-to-end they would stretch 32,000 kilometres. In wartorn northern Italy, Enrico Piaggio somehow managed to get into production a design by aeronautical engineer Corradino D’Ascanio, code named MP6, which became the Vespa as Piaggio declared it looked like a wasp. The quirky little