Bourne to Rally - The Autobiography

Published by Phantom House Books Ltd., 2003. Good secondhand condition.

Possum Bourne: rally driver, sporting icon, family man, team-bulider and 'great bloke'. Three-time winner of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, winner seven times in a row of the Australian Rally Championship, and eight times the best placed New Zealand driver in the Rally of New Zealand. In 2003, he finally achives his long cherished dream of competing in the World Rally Championship, but is fatally injured in a freak car crash. This is the story of how his positive attitude, his determination to succeed, and his and his ability to inspire others to support him brought him to motorsport fame.

Very few New Zealanders pass the first name test - instantly recognisable when just their first name is used. Ed Hillary, Zinzan Brooke, Jonah Lomu, Stacey Jones and Onny Parun are or have been examples of this rudimentary litmus test of fame. Possum Bourne was another.
Joseph Romanos.

- from the inside cover.