Motoring Interests and Career
A 54-year career as a full-time motoring journalist included 16-years as Editor of Wheels magazine, plus 16-years spent living in Italy working as European editor of the UK’s weekly Autocar and Wheels, while also writing for America’s Car & Driver magazine and Japan’s Car Graphic. Returned to Australia in 2005, in part to write a book on the development of the all-new VE Holden Commodore. Continued to work as a freelance journalist for Wheels until retirement in 2014, today still writes two or three major features a year. Has the unique distinction of twice being banned for life by Ferrari.