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ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The amazing true life story of Rosco McGlashan as told to Mark J Read

Mark J. Read

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Description:Rosco McGlashan's unbelievable true story is one of the best motorsports biographies you will ever read. It has 390 action-packed pages with 160 incredible photos of Rosco's life, cars and racing career.Rosco is an Australian drag racing and land speed legend. His early years were very tough. He spent time in state-run homes and remand centres, eventually driving away from his home and school at twelve after a run-in with his family and headmaster. He drives north in Western Australia to find work, increasing his age from twelve to sixteen, to fund his racing career.He fought everyone and everything and, at seventeen, ended up in prison and solitary confinement. Once released, his salvation came through his love of speed and raw horsepower. He focused his fighting spirit and energy on racing and going very fast.His V8 drag bike and jet dragsters take him to racing tracks all over Australia, the USA and New Zealand. These races lead to amazing, funny adventures and stories that will leave you wanting more.Later, his motorsport career takes him to other countries. Rosco gets kidnapped by the Russian Mafia whilst trying to buy two MIG jet fighter engines, and he fights his way out. He crashed a car at close to 600 mph (960 km/h) and also clinically died on an operating table when another car he was racing went off a mountain track. He was revived and went on to win many motor racing titles and break land speed records.On his journey, he meets racing legends and encounters mass murderers and world leaders. He then casually chats with the Dalai Lama, who sits in one of his cars, making motor racing noises and shaking the steering wheel.Rosco's unstoppable ambition and refusal to give up sees him turn his attention to breaking the world land speed record and wanting to be the fastest man on the planet. He wants the Australian and world records, a goal he set himself as a young man.Rosco and the Aussie Invader team are putting the finishing touches to their latest record-breaker, the world's fastest and most powerful car, the Aussie Invader 5R. This land speed car has 200,000 horsepower, the power of 200 Formula One cars and can accelerate from 0 – 1000 mph (1600 km/h) in just 22 seconds. If you like reading motivational books with inspiring stories about chasing your dreams, this book is for you. Quitting is not in this man's motor racing DNA.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The amazing true life story of Rosco McGlashan as told to Mark J Read. To get started finding ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The amazing true life story of Rosco McGlashan as told to Mark J Read, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Rosco McGlashan's unbelievable true story is one of the best motorsports biographies you will ever read. It has 390 action-packed pages with 160 incredible photos of Rosco's life, cars and racing career.Rosco is an Australian drag racing and land speed legend. His early years were very tough. He spent time in state-run homes and remand centres, eventually driving away from his home and school at twelve after a run-in with his family and headmaster. He drives north in Western Australia to find work, increasing his age from twelve to sixteen, to fund his racing career.He fought everyone and everything and, at seventeen, ended up in prison and solitary confinement. Once released, his salvation came through his love of speed and raw horsepower. He focused his fighting spirit and energy on racing and going very fast.His V8 drag bike and jet dragsters take him to racing tracks all over Australia, the USA and New Zealand. These races lead to amazing, funny adventures and stories that will leave you wanting more.Later, his motorsport career takes him to other countries. Rosco gets kidnapped by the Russian Mafia whilst trying to buy two MIG jet fighter engines, and he fights his way out. He crashed a car at close to 600 mph (960 km/h) and also clinically died on an operating table when another car he was racing went off a mountain track. He was revived and went on to win many motor racing titles and break land speed records.On his journey, he meets racing legends and encounters mass murderers and world leaders. He then casually chats with the Dalai Lama, who sits in one of his cars, making motor racing noises and shaking the steering wheel.Rosco's unstoppable ambition and refusal to give up sees him turn his attention to breaking the world land speed record and wanting to be the fastest man on the planet. He wants the Australian and world records, a goal he set himself as a young man.Rosco and the Aussie Invader team are putting the finishing touches to their latest record-breaker, the world's fastest and most powerful car, the Aussie Invader 5R. This land speed car has 200,000 horsepower, the power of 200 Formula One cars and can accelerate from 0 – 1000 mph (1600 km/h) in just 22 seconds. If you like reading motivational books with inspiring stories about chasing your dreams, this book is for you. Quitting is not in this man's motor racing DNA.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The amazing true life story of Rosco McGlashan as told to Mark J Read. To get started finding ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The amazing true life story of Rosco McGlashan as told to Mark J Read, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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