ABOUT
She's a Beauty! is back in print - but with a
difference.
Now in two volumes, this lavishly
illustrated first volume documents the Holden story from
1934 to 1948.
Volume
One, rich with new stories, photographs and facts,
includes not only material from the 2006 enlarged
edition of She's a Beauty!, but also
relevant material from its sequel, Still Holden
Together, which is
unlikely to be re-published.
Volume Two will continue the story from 1949 to
1953, and in subsequent decades.
No FJ Holden
material is included, in order to keep She's a Beauty!
exclusively for the original Holden model.
Don
Loffler's
first book, She's a Beauty!, was
published in 1998, marking 50 years since Prime Minister
Ben Chifley launched the original Holden 48-215 ('FX')
with this famous exclamation. Six successive volumes on
early Holdens followed.
All Don's books showcase a special way of telling the
human stories behind the cars and in 2021 the marvellous
Cars We Used to Drive joined his collection. She's a
Beauty! has been revised twice before (2006 and 2009) but
this time is to be published in two volumes.
Don, a natural and fluent social historian, shows how the
Holden drove its way into Australian culture, changing the
nation forever in the process. His books constitute an
extensive archive with appeal to the general reader as
well as the motoring enthusiast and this new edition of
She's a Beauty! is not to be missed.'
– Dr John M. Wright (MA, BD, PhD), eminent Australian
motoring journalist and author of landmark Holden
history, Heart of the Lion, and the groundbreaking
research book, Special: The untold story of Australia's
Holden.
About Don Loffler:
Some
people
guess that Don is the son or relative of a Holden
dealer, or a former Holden factory employee, or someone
closely connected with the motor trade. He is none of
these, but a retired German, Latin and Chemistry teacher,
who is enjoying the process of writing books on his
passion – the early Holden models and the history behind
them.
Born in Kapunda, South Australia, he gained an Arts
degree and two Education diplomas from the University of
Adelaide. His late wife, also a graduate with similar
degrees from the same university, was his inspiration in
the initial years of his book writing and the tradition is
now maintained by his adult son Michael and daughter
Helen. Lois and Michael have been valuable proofreaders of
Don's manuscripts over many years.
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further information on SHE'S
A
BEAUTY The Story of the First Holdens Volume One
1934–1948)