To Finish First: My Years Inside Formula One, Can-Am & Indy 500
By Phil Kerr
Published by Random House New Zealand
I started collecting books and magazines when I was a kid, with money earned from my paper route. I once sold a large portion of my library and immediately regretted it. My buying habits change from time to time. Lately I’ve been adding autobiographies, although the wish list is always evolving. I’ve never added books based on potential value, but because I enjoy the subject. I use to buy both Automobile Year and Autocourse every year. Eventually I realized that I didn’t enjoy the contemporary racing scene as much as historic racing, and I lost interest in the two titles. The Autocourses went in the sell-off, which in retrospect was a mistake. I did stop buying Automobile Year, but I still enjoy the older issues from the 60s and 70s.