Australian Off Road Year 84 Volume 2
Australian History Outdoor Recreation Automotive History Motorsports Off-roading Rallying Vintage Transport
Australian Off Road Year ’84 Volume 2 is the holy-grail annual for anyone who lives and breathes dusty tracks, bush-bashing machinery and uniquely Australian motoring folklore. Published in 1984 by the boutique Berghouse Floyd Tuckey press, this vintage hard-cover gathers a full year of outback rallies, marathon desert races, club expeditions and the larger-than-life characters who drove them. Bill Tuckey—one of the country’s most respected automotive journalists—curates the best feature stories, race reports and technical debriefs that never made the mainstream magazines, turning the book into a time-capsule of turbo-charged nostalgia.
Open the fresh, unmarked pages and you’ll find rare photography of pre-Group-A Patrols, GQ Safaris, FJ40s, short-wheel-base Hiluxes and twin-cab Land-Cruisers hammering across the Simpson, the Canning and the Tanami before GPS or satellite phones existed. Side-bar data lists every checkpoint, every roll-over and every bush-repair, while interviews with drivers, navigators and mechanics deliver the humour, tragedy and ingenuity that defined off-road culture in the early ’80s. The writing is punchy, larrikin and unmistakably Australian—perfect for modern 4×4 enthusiasts who want to understand how today’s adventure scene was forged in bulldust and welded diffs.
Because the print-run was tiny and most copies were thrashed in glove-boxes and campsite toolkits, clean, complete examples are now scarce—especially with the original dust jacket still intact. This copy shows only the light shelving wear you’d expect from nearly four decades of garage life, while the internal pages remain crisp, bright and free of foxing, inscriptions or dog-eared corners. For collectors of Australian transport history, vintage motoring annuals or rally memorabilia, Australian Off Road Year ’84 is both a readable reference and a shelf-statement that reliably appreciates in value as the classic 4×4 market continues to boom.
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