My Other Wife is a Car: Confessions of a car tragic

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In John Wright's life, cars take a close second place to family, simple as that. My Other Wife is a Car is his memoir of 30 years of automotive obsession - one man's life seen as a life-long test drive. A writer for Wheels, Modern Motor, Best Car magazine and many others, he's driven more than 3,000 cars and owned more than 130 (at last count). His shortest ownership was less than twenty-four hours. One disaster was an old Rolls Royce, another failure a Triumph. He's sold cars for a crooked dealer, raced at Bathurst and Targa Tasmania (four times). Strap yourself in for a light-hearted and passionate celebration of 30 years of driving - the best and worst cars, the biggest lies, the most glorious failures, the cars that got away, and what it feels like to go full throttle for the first time through the kink into Caltex Chase.

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John Wright is a historian, writer and motoring journalist. He is the author of Heart of the Lion and Special: The Untold Story of Australia's Holden.