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Having a clearout of motoring titles.  £1 for each one, plus post, or collect from near Basingstoke (RG26).

 

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Marque histories:

  • Development story for the GM Saab 900 (1993 model)
  • Best of CAR magazine - the 1960s
  • World Cars 1977 (pictures and info of each car on sale across the world that year, imagine an Observers Guide on steroids - very heavy, contains LJK Setright content)
  • Commodore, Lion King - history of the Holden Commodore 1978-1999
  • Project VN - development story for the VN Holden Commodore of 1988

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Road test collections:

  • High performance Mk3 Escorts, 1980-85
  • Road and Track on Volkswagen 1968-78
  • Chevrolet Impala and Caprice, 1965-90
  • Range Rover, 1970-92
  • Jaguar XJ-S, 1975-80

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General reference etc:

  • James May's Car Fever - collection of his newspaper columns
  • Let's Call It Fiesta - development story of the Mk1 Fezza
  • Lemon and Extra Lemon - two collections of the worst cars sold on the Australian market, actually not that bad compared to those crap MSN lists
  • The Rise and Fall of Peter Brock
  • End of the Road - story of Rover under BMW
  • Comeback - how the US motor industry responded to the Japanese invasion

PM me with wants and I'll give you a postage price and e-mail address for Paypal.  For those wanting multiple books I'll ship via Hermes or Collect+ using a box so should be fairly cost-effective.

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MORE (same deal as before) - if anyone who has already paid wants another, let me know:

 

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  • Behind The Wheel At Chrysler - entertaining (but factual) look at the bust-boom-bust period while Lee Iacocca was running the show, 1980-90
  • Car by Mary Walton (the grey plain cover) - story of the third-generation 1996 Ford Taurus
  • Taurus by Eric Taub - covers the first generation car development story
  • On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors - John DeLorean's autobiography, this is a good'un, he had quite an ego
  • Observers Automobiles - 1979 and 1980
  • Back From The Brink by Michael Edwardes - a must for BL fans
  • Rivethead by Ben Hamper - one man's story of working on the GM assembly lines
  • Roadcraft - the Police Driver's handbook
  • Guinness Current Car Index - more technical data than you can shake a stick at covering worldwide models from 1986 to 1992
  • The Reckoning by David Halberstam - another one of those mid-80s books on how the US car industry was buggered by the Japanese; this one compares and contrasts Ford and Nissan as its' core theme
  • Call Me Roger - scathing diatribe against the piss-poor management of GM by Roger Smith in the 1980s
  • Flat Out, Flat Broke - Perry McCarthy (aka the 1st Top Gear Stig) on how he tried to break into F1
  • DeLorean - Rise and Fall of a dream maker
  • The Rise and Fall of the American Automobile Industry - legendary scribbler and "Cannonball" inventor Brock Yates on how the US industry got into its' mess in 1983 (!), focuses a lot on how poor the US versions of the Mk2 Cav were and how they missed their target market
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Yes:

  • Saab NG900 (93-98 model) development story
  • Project VN (1988 Holden Commodore development story)
  • Roadcraft - the Police Driver's handbook
  • The Reckoning by David Halberstam - another one of those mid-80s books on how the US car industry was buggered by the Japanese; this one compares and contrasts Ford and Nissan as its' core theme
  • Flat Out, Flat Broke - Perry McCarthy (aka the 1st Top Gear Stig) on how he tried to break into F1
  • DeLorean - Rise and Fall of a dream maker
  • And also Road & Track on Volkswagen 1968-78 as sporty-shite hasn't come back to me yet
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