Eoin Young has forty years experience of cars and the people who make them and drive them. In his foreword to George Begg's book he says:

"If George Begg didn't exist someone would have had to make him. And it could only have been him because no one else would have had the everlasting patience and the homespun nous and ability to do the job.

George was up there in the McLaren stream of Kiwi engineering. He could start with the spark of an idea in his mind and build a car around it.

I was fascinated at George's ability to get inside the guys at Auto Restorations and to describe the total effort and talent that goes into the restoration of their commissions because he was seeing their work through the eyes of an engineer. I had been through the works and seen it all through a low-tech journalist's eyes and had missed a lot of the magic that George has laced into his descriptions of the AR recreations and the other classics that lived for so long in New Zealand before we realised they were anything more than uncompetitive old racing cars that had been tucked with Kiwis in the 'fifties who only thought they were on to a cheap car to race at home.

George cares about racing and car-making and restoring and has the homespun knack of taking the reader with him."

New Zealand's Christchurch Press said:

"Added to Mr Begg's original chapters dealing with his adventures on the Isle of Man and those in which he returns as a veteran rider, as well as the years of campaigning the Begg Formula 5000 cars in New Zealand, the new sections of auto restorations help create a seriously important book."

George's book has rare descriptions of the early days of McLaren Cars - get the inside story!