The July 2016 issue of Vintage Metal is the best yet in terms of layout and the use of photographs.

Using photographs supplied by Graeme Howie of Sport Pixx Sport Photography (www.sportpixx.com.au) and stories supplied by two of the organising team, the Albany Classic report is the best since I took over the editorship of the magazine.

The other feature is the story of Targa Tasmania as told by two VSCC members who competed with photographs supplied by the Targa Tasmania organisers. Mark Duder completed the course in his beautiful Alpine

A110 while Paul Bartlett finished his rally with his Mark 1 Escort parked against a large tree.

Book reviews in this issue are of two contrasting books. From the Library is My Twenty Years of

Racing by Juan Manuel Fangio, published in 1961. In a first for Vintage Metal, this review extnds over two pages with a selection of photographs from the book and a comprehensive description by librarian Mark Jones. The second book is Legends of the 48-215 by Joel Wakely, proprietor of the BP Boomerang Service Station that prepared one of the fastest early model Holdens to have raced in Australian touring car races of the early 1960s.

One book tells the story of the man who was arguably the greatest Grand Prix driver and the other tells of how a humble family sedan evolved into an effective racing car, but both are fascinating stories.