Description
Thirty years on the muscle car era still resonates. Why do these beautiful beasts hold to much fascination? Read Golden miles to get the truth about a time when modern Australia's real sense of itself was taking shape.
Mark Seymour
GOLDEN MILES is an auto biography by Clinton Walker, a book about cars, people and place. Australia in the late 60s/early 70s was a young country bursting at the seams: charging through a brief window of opportunity between the end of colonialism and the beginning of globalism, the muscle car was the archetypal product of Australian suburbia, a fusion of the larrikin spirit and the sexual revolution, the Me Generation in overdrive ...
GOLDEN MILES by Clinton Walker is a social history of these cars - the Holden Monaro, Falcon GT. Valiant Charger and others - whose sex drive has endured so strongly that they are now being reborn. With the energy and irreverent humour of a fanzine, the acuity of investigative journalism and the eye of an art book, this new, updated edition of
GOLDEN MILES takes Australian non-fiction to a high level. As a critique of consumerism, a meditation on beauty, loss and national identity, and a rollicking yarn full of action and colourful characters, it is a reminder of a time when Australia - the world - was a wilder, freer place: a time when the muscle car ruled our lazy highways with a promise of danger and desire that casts a spell still.
Book Details:
Publisher Code: 1GOLDEN
ISBN 13: 9781862548541
Author: Clinton Walker
Published: 2009 (updated)
Pages: 238
Dimension: 170x240mm
Soft Cover, colour and b/w illustrations
