Hillclimb & Sprint yearbooks

[jedi088]

I have a yearbook from the Robin Boucher era did these get produced for many years or just once ?

[Richard Dunn]

Regards

Richard

[jedi088]

From memory as my copy is in a box in the loft since the house move an A5 ish cardboard cover lots of pages b/w photos covering the main events of the year full of info . nice but probably made redundant as Speedscene became the magazine for Hills and Sprints . but this is the only one I have seen I got it in a s/h bookshop

[Fireblade]

There were 2 Robin Boucher books. Both very good and I have them in my collection.

The A5 sized one "The Hillclimb & Sprint Yearbook 1965" and "Drive It, The Complete Book of Hillclimbing & Sprinting" which was published in 1977.

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Fireblade

There were 2 Robin Boucher books. Both very good and I have them in my collection.

The A5 sized one "The Hillclimb & Sprint Yearbook 1965" and "Drive It, The Complete Book of Hillclimbing & Sprinting" which was published in 1977.

Must admit I have never seen the 1965 booklet - must make a note to put it on my wanted list.

The "Drive It!" was OK but there was a striking sameness about the photos. I have a couple of copies in my library and again I am always on the look out for them in second hand book shops as many of my friends don't have copies!

Speedscene did make the Yearbook concept redundant and I suspect the poor sales of the "Hillclimb & Sprinting Drive It!" meant that Haynes were put off hillclimb & sprinting books for good!

[Fireblade]

1965! It's a fair cop there Steve, I did of course mean 1985 as you well know.

[BSR]

Originally Posted by Fireblade

1965! It's a fair cop there

Cue another 'Blade / Sprinty typo spotting war!!!

[Fireblade]

I must get the name of his PR firm sometime, BSR. For a bloke with a new book on release he isn't showing signs of reading " How To Win Friends and Influence Future Purchasers"

[Hasta]

Originally Posted by Fireblade

I must get the name of his PR firm sometime, BSR. For a bloke with a new book on release he isn't showing signs of reading " How To Win Friends and Influence Future Purchasers"

Oh

Has he got a book out . I hadn't noticed



Hasta

[iranoff]

Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson

I suspect the poor sales of the "Hillclimb & Sprinting Drive It!" meant that Haynes were put off hillclimb & sprinting books for good!

Didn't stop them publishing the very excellent "The Shelsley Walsh Story: A Century of Motorsport" authored by Simon Taylor, a must for every enthusiasts bookshelf.



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