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ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The incredible story of Australian drag racing and land speed legend Rosco McGlashan's life - 30th anniversary record edition

Mark J. Read

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Description:ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth - Special Colour 30th Anniversary Record EditionRosco McGlashan is a legend of Australian drag racing. He is also the current Australian land speed record holder. Rosco and the Aussie Invader team set this record in March 1994. This book is a commemorative 30th-anniversary edition with over 360 action-packed pages and over 160 incredible colour images of his life, his cars and his racing career.His early years were tough. He spent time in state-run homes and remand centres, eventually leaving home and school at 12. He then drives up north in Western Australia to find work, increasing his age from 12 to 16, to fund his racing career.He fought everyone and everything and, at 17, ended up in prison and even solitary confinement. Once released, his salvation comes through his love of speed and raw horsepower. He focuses his fighting spirit and energy on racing and going very fast.His V8 drag bike and jet dragsters take him from Perth and WA all over Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He meets some incredible people, leading to some amazing adventures and tales that will leave you speechless.Later, his motorsport career and quest for speed took him to other countries. He gets kidnapped by the Russian Mafia when trying to buy two MIG jet fighter engines and fights his way out. He crashes a car at nearly 600 mph. He also clinically dies on an operating table when another car he was racing went off a mountain road in driving rain. He was revived and went on to break many motor racing and land speed records.He meets mass murderers and world leaders, then casually chats with the Dalai Lama. Eventually, Rosco turned his attention to beating Donald Campbell's Australian land speed records, a goal he set himself at age 12. Then he turns his attention to capturing the World land speed record.Rosco and the Aussie Invader team are now putting the finishing touches to their latest record-breaker, the world's fastest and most powerful car, Aussie Invader 5R. This car has 200,000 horsepower, the equivalent of 200 Formula One cars! It can accelerate from 0 - 1000 mph in just 22 seconds. Learn what it takes to build such a car!You won't be able to put "ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth" down. This book is an incredibly inspiring, moving and motivational story of guts, grit, and determination. Quitting is not in this man's vocabulary.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 incredible story of Australian drag racing and land speed legend Rosco McGlashan's life - 30th anniversary record edition. To get started finding ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The incredible story of Australian drag racing and land speed legend Rosco McGlashan's life - 30th anniversary record edition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth - Special Colour 30th Anniversary Record EditionRosco McGlashan is a legend of Australian drag racing. He is also the current Australian land speed record holder. Rosco and the Aussie Invader team set this record in March 1994. This book is a commemorative 30th-anniversary edition with over 360 action-packed pages and over 160 incredible colour images of his life, his cars and his racing career.His early years were tough. He spent time in state-run homes and remand centres, eventually leaving home and school at 12. He then drives up north in Western Australia to find work, increasing his age from 12 to 16, to fund his racing career.He fought everyone and everything and, at 17, ended up in prison and even solitary confinement. Once released, his salvation comes through his love of speed and raw horsepower. He focuses his fighting spirit and energy on racing and going very fast.His V8 drag bike and jet dragsters take him from Perth and WA all over Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He meets some incredible people, leading to some amazing adventures and tales that will leave you speechless.Later, his motorsport career and quest for speed took him to other countries. He gets kidnapped by the Russian Mafia when trying to buy two MIG jet fighter engines and fights his way out. He crashes a car at nearly 600 mph. He also clinically dies on an operating table when another car he was racing went off a mountain road in driving rain. He was revived and went on to break many motor racing and land speed records.He meets mass murderers and world leaders, then casually chats with the Dalai Lama. Eventually, Rosco turned his attention to beating Donald Campbell's Australian land speed records, a goal he set himself at age 12. Then he turns his attention to capturing the World land speed record.Rosco and the Aussie Invader team are now putting the finishing touches to their latest record-breaker, the world's fastest and most powerful car, Aussie Invader 5R. This car has 200,000 horsepower, the equivalent of 200 Formula One cars! It can accelerate from 0 - 1000 mph in just 22 seconds. Learn what it takes to build such a car!You won't be able to put "ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth" down. This book is an incredibly inspiring, moving and motivational story of guts, grit, and determination. Quitting is not in this man's vocabulary.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 incredible story of Australian drag racing and land speed legend Rosco McGlashan's life - 30th anniversary record edition. To get started finding ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The incredible story of Australian drag racing and land speed legend Rosco McGlashan's life - 30th anniversary record edition, 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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ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth: The incredible story of Australian drag racing and land speed legend Rosco McGlashan's life - 30th anniversary record edition

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