Limited Edition VB Release Celebratory Book ??? - Anyone know what these are worth?

[shaunington]

Hey guys, I'm not huge on 'Early-Girl' knowledge, but my great uncle who worked at GM for a number of years has handed on to me a few of these books. The pages are A3 in size, with about 25 pages.

He said they were released as a celebration of the first commodore, and are extremely rare to extinct nowadays, but you guys might know otherwise.

The book consists of very large very high quality product photos, as well as a few cut away technical diagrams demonstrating various features of the commodore. It also has a lot of information about the development. I've taken a few shots of a few pages to give you guys an idea. The books are in mint condition, with this one only being opened to take a few photos.

The preamble reads:

This book is published to mark the most important milestone in the Australian motor industry since the production of the first Australian car, the 48/215 Holden in 1948.
In years to come, 1978 will be seen as a benchmark; the year that a completely new vehicle was produced, setting automotive standards not only for Australia, but for the world.

This book details the history of that vehicle's development, the engineering, the aerodynamics, the testing. A story of years of careful development which resulted in a car of tangibly advanced design. Whether it be finely detailed black and white engineering drawings or rich full colour photographs, the illustrations, too, are carefully chosen to dramatically present this important automotive achievement.

This limited edition book is intended as a valuable addition to the library of everyone who appreciates automotive excellence, impressively embodied in the new Holden Commodore - a new kind of car for Australia.

Excuse the phone quality, Ive tried rotating the photos but they still upload upside down. sorry:













What are your thoughts?

Shaun

[ari666]

my thoughts are:

1. awesome.
2. whats the point of this thread?
3. are you gonna scan the pages and upload?
4. awesome

the info in those pages may be invaluable to a member of this forum, so if you could make it available that would be hugely appreciate, by myself and the various other 3000 members.

as far as the books go, if they were mine i would be putting them in sandwhich bags and leaving them flat in the closet with a phone book on top of them.

fyi, rotating them isnt that hard:

[SL/ENUT]

Hmmm i wouldn't mind that book. But most of those pics were in the original sales books.

[shaunington]

my thoughts are:
1. awesome.
2. whats the point of this thread?
3. are you gonna scan the pages and upload?
4. awesome

1. I thought so, too
2. I was trying to gauge interest or knowledge of the books, as I tried to do some googling and asked the local library and found absolutely nothing at all about them, so I thought you some of you guys might've at least seen one in passing and known anything more about it/if they are actually rare (or every tom dick and harry has one).
3. I might do, I'd have to be scanning in halves (don't have an A3 scanner), but if the interest is there I might have a crack.

SL/ENUT, I thought they might've been, I'd seen the one of the red interior somewhere before.