Quote Originally Posted by pallmall View Post
A bit different to AMCO72s book story, this is one of my bargain buys. In the mid seventies I called into a bookshop in Palmerston North (it was the big one, now a Whitcoulls) to see what motoring books they had. Sitting on the shelf was a pristine copy of Automobile Year #1 from 1953/54 with the Indy car drawing on the cover, I had not seen it there on previous visits so it may have been found out the back in the storeroom, the price on it was $8. I grabbed it quickly and took it to the counter and suggested that since it was such an old book the price seemed a bit high! I was allowed to buy it for $5. Many years later when a bit short of cash I sold it in the UK for well over 100 pounds, I wish I still had it though.
I remember the first Automobile Year. My brother found one second hand, must have been early 1960's. It had a soft cover, and the translation to English, from French perhaps, was distinctly quaint. I presume he still has it, buried in a Sydney basement somewhere.