Autoshite book club

[Spottedlaurel]

I’m with you on the Corsair loving, I think it’s the slight pointlessness of it within Ford’s line-up that I find most appealing. That and the fact they look pretty sharp on a set of Appliance/Cragar type steel-spoke wheels. Ideally said car would be powered by an Essex V6, for the quintessential early 1980s Street Machine vibe.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I bought a good shite book the other day in a local SH bookshop.

 

 

Its got loads of 80's oil sheik Merc S-class tat in and mental cars from Sbarro, Rinspeed and the like. The text in it looks like it was written by someone who is intelligent, but not very interested in cars, its proper strange.

[garycox]

 

Obviously the artist forgot that the Cortina was supposed to be a 4 door and just added an extra line afterwards

[Spottedlaurel]

Found a few more photos, probably taken for the last ABC thread.

 

 

Datsuncherry also a fan of these. They're fantastic books, CSQ particularly so as they're Japanese (but also English text) so lots on my kind of cars. Style Auto also very good, great piece on the Toyota MkII and the R12 article is accompanied by a big blueprint style drawing.

 

 

These good for when I'm in a redneck frame of mind.

 

 

Handy way of having a few road tests without monstrous piles of paper everywhere (which I also have).

 

 

Lots on non-bus stuff in these. The garage book is wonderful.

 

 

Recent-ish find, goes from the 1950s right through to the '80s.

 

 

These usually seem to be up for decent money.

 

 

The marvellous Boring Postcard books.

[Spottedlaurel]

The R12 drawing:

 

 

Inside Man and his Car:

 

 

 

And from My Book of Cars:

 

[andrew e]

I've got that extra ordinary automobiles - pure class! Look out for the Ian kahn books, dream cars & sporting super cars same era.

[Guest]

 

Bloody hell, someone's a bit negative about cars. Cheer up!

[Richard]

There's worse than that in there

[pompei]

Wonder what LW and NW stand for in those registrations?

[pompei]

LOLzzz at the Cortina artwork, especially the profile!

[Richard]

I think they are probably members of the artist's family. I can't lay my hands on the book just now but I'm sure his initials were GTW.

[Milford Cubicle]

I have that 'Extraordinary Automobiles' book too Mr_B - you summed it up perfectly. The photos are stunning though.

 

My favourite shite car book that I own is 'The Best Cars' by William and Michael Stobbs. The gimmick of it is that early '80s computers work out the worthless 'Perfomance Dimension' of the cars featured and it has equally pointless figures such as 'Petrol consumption per ton' and loads of baffling graphs.

The best section is the one on diesels, the Citroen CX 2500D "starts quickly with a warm up by the glow plugs of thirty seconds"!! It features such obscurities as the Peugeot 604 Turbo Diesel.

[garethj]

Recent-ish find, goes from the 1950s right through to the '80s.

 

I've got that Extroadinary Automobiles book too. I :heart: the Isdera Imperator

 

The World Cars book is ace, I've got them from 1964, 1969, 1974 and 1980, a fair spread of shite and the 1960s ones are full of detail.

 

I had one of those Orbit books too, I think it's the one with the green Triumph sports on the front, and I think most of the pictures inside have been drawn on by me as a 4 year old

[pogweasel]

When I was a young boy I LIVED on these Orbit books, trouble was I kept cutting out the different colour side views on the bottom so mum had to keep buying new ones for me. Must have spent years trying to find them in adulthood until, of course, ebay came along!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOW.

I'd forgotton those ones.

Great memory stir. I had some which were particularly dog-eared, presumably from some jumble sale (remember them? Before every town had 18 chazza shops and you could offload bilge on eBay, old biddies in cake-on-head hats squabbling over 5p purple flares...). The books were pretty dated even in the early 80's as most of the grot contained within was already confined to the scrapyard. Excellent.

[andrew e]

Some reccomended titles,

 

 

 

 

No respecting 80's cal-look expert would be complte without these - I was the man in my class

[Mr_Bo11ox]

WHAT! I've just finished reading that 'britiain in the 70's' book! Got it from Oxfam for £1.50, what a bargain.

[andrew e]

My Dad got it out the bins (well he was a Dustman I suppose) about 20 years ago, really good social history there, often gets a flick through.

[Spottedlaurel]

Stuff the VW's, look at those issues of Car Styling Quarterly and Style Auto!

[Guest]

If anyone wants to collect these from Leicester you can have them f.o.c

Assorted years-couple still have the free gifts with them

+ There is a few more-Wont split-wont post.

[andrew e]

I'd have themif I was passing! But I'm not, any chance of somebody in Essex or Slough doing the same Seriously any chance of some scans from the A1 book?

[pogweasel]

You could tempt me with that lot.... plus a couple of hours of driving never hurt.

[Albert Ross]

I could also be tempted......was born there, I still have my passport too!I have to come down at some point to pick up a fuel pump for the Landy, it was offered cheap at a tenner!!!!!! So if there's no other takers, I'm there. You in a desperate hurry to offload? I'll share them with Pog if needed................(Two's up?)

[Guest]

Seriously any chance of some scans from the A1 book?

Its nowt exiciting-just history/stories etc

[Guest]

I could also be tempted......was born there, I still have my passport too!I have to come down at some point to pick up a fuel pump for the Landy, it was offered cheap at a tenner!!!!!! So if there's no other takers, I'm there. You in a desperate hurry to offload? I'll share them with Pog if needed................(Two's up?)

T.B.H I could do with them gone a.s.a.p (moaning s.w.m.b.o) and possible move soon.

[seth]

Falloden Way is a javelin throwers throw from my place That lorry fallen over photo is not one you'd be able to match these days. Within seconds of the arrival of the highways agency and or police the road would probably be closed in both directions for umpteen hours while they worked out what to do with it, causing untold delays for one and all.

[simmo]

A fraction of the automotive crap I picked up over the years

 

 

 

[simmo]

and a few more:

 

 

[andrew e]

The Holmes Wrecker is great - JUZ TEH FING TO READ AT PRE 68

[STUNO]

Everyone simmo has sold a car to in the last 20 years as wondered where the handbook has gone to

[simmo]

The Holmes Wrecker is great - JUZ TEH FING TO READ AT PRE 68

Had some great fun with Holmes kit. Firm I work for had a 500 on a 4x4 TK with studded snow tyres on it (don't know why) and an ERF with a Holmes 750. These were then replace by a LHD 8 wheel RR engined Scammel with an underlift (possibly an Interstater) and a Holmes 750 for all the stuff you can't do with an underlift.