FULL TILT

Bathurst winner , Australian Touring Car Champion , three times Australian Rally Champion, and the only man to have won on both sides of racing’s most iconic rivalry – Ford versus Holden – this is the high octane story of motor-racing legend Colin Bond.

A celebration of speed, skill and the defining era of motor racing Full Tilt has been written by best-selling motorsport journalist John Smailes in Colin Bond’s own words.

From his rallying crowns to his extraordinary Bathurst victory and his Touring Car Championship triumph , to the hugely controversial 1-2 Bathurst win in ’77 , Bond’s career spanned the most thrilling decades of Australian motorsport. At the heart of it all was the fierce tribal battle between Ford and Holden – a rivalry Bond knew better than anyone.

Against the backdrop of the golden age of motorsport, Full Tilt is packed with accounts of racing with and against other superstars like Peter Brock and Allan Moffat. Bond is the only driver to have competed for the Ford and Holden works teams as team mate to Brock and Moffat.

Full Tilt captures the drama , danger and intense competition of the sixties to the nineties , the incredibly engineered Monaros , Toranas , Falcons and Commodores , the dirty tracks , dodgy deals and maverick team managers.