Retirement and Writing
In retirement, Rudd remained active in the Society of Automotive Engineers, wrote a widely-acclaimed autobiography It Was Fun: My Fifty Years of High Performance and collaborated with Doug Nye on a multi-volume history of BRM. Tony Rudd died in 2003 at the age of 80. He was married to Pamela and had three daughters.
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