Autoshite book club

[simmo]

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

Most of the old stuff comes from a breaker's my dad had in the seventies hence the poor condition.

[MrRegieRitmo]

What's that one on the bottom left, an AMC? Similar styling cues between that & the Datsun!

[Guest]

Isnt bottom left a Ford Pinto?

Sorry to hear of your bump today regie-all ok?

 

Edit---yes it is 1971/1972 pinto

[Volksy]

Ford Pinto - GR8 FOR EXPLODING IN REAR ENDERZ

[Guest]

Ford Pinto - GR8 FOR EXPLODING IN REAR ENDERZ

[MrRegieRitmo]

Has a nice shape to it though! (pre impact)

[MrRegieRitmo]

That AA Book of Driving is worth the trip alone! It was printed in 1980 & is brim full of grot right upto that period. The school library used to hold a tatty copy which I used to regularly borrow to go 'tat spotting' through the pages - kept me occupied for hours. A while later in my eBay days I eventually found a mint one for sale which I think I won for a quid, I was well chuffed!

 

That Alfa book looks like it might be good - which models does it cover?

[MrRegieRitmo]

Sorry to hear of your bump today regie-all ok?

Thanks - no permanent damage to report. At least not on the outside!

[Guest]

MrRegieRitmoIts a 1985 print so it covers around the 1910 24 hp model to the arna via the alfasud/giulietta etc.

[Guest]

Glad to hear it. Wasnt the Renault was it?

[MrRegieRitmo]

Glad to hear it. Wasnt the Renault was it?

http://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4282&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

[pogweasel]

Today I went on a train journey, a round trip of about 750 miles, so for a little light entertainment I read this book

 

which happily features:

 

 

and

 

and (briefly)

 

Delightfully silly.

 

(PS. I also saw a BMC JU250 ice cream van in edinburgh, but no pics, coz it were pissing it down)

[VWPowered]

of cause abit advertising could keep costs down..

 

 

and of cause how too's are great..

 

[Guest]

Bought a cheap box of car mags at a sunday carboot-made a crap offer when they are packing up

Safer vw motoring/practical classics/street machine/fast ford/classic american a right assortment . But I really wanted the 1987/1988 ici autocolour paints colours catalogue that was there and it has the vin plate decoder for ford/vauxhall too .

In the June 2005 Practical classics(which I allready have) is this..........

Hey its Electric Leyland in the feature that he later took charge of Was it this viva that spawned the idea of Autoshite

[Guest]

Whitevanman's

IN

A staff car no less

[Guest]

 

I still have this-after binning the rest-Anyone want it f.o.c?. 1st come 1st served

[whitevanman]

Whitevanman's

IN

A staff car no less

Wow..........I need to get me a copy of that puppy....................right I'm off to ebay now

[Guest]

I need to get me a copy of that puppy right I'm off to ebay now

Why because unless you want a mint/as new copy you can have this one

[Minimad5]

Unless the "CARS" book has gone rootes_arrow1725, i would delightfully become the new owner

[Guest]

Unless the "CARS" book has gone rootes_arrow1725, i would delightfully become the new owner

Send me your name and address via PM and I will post it in a few days when I post my ebay stuff.

[whitevanman]

I need to get me a copy of that puppy right I'm off to ebay now

Why because unless you want a mint/as new copy you can have this one

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't expect that how much do you want for it?

[Guest]

I need to get me a copy of that puppy right I'm off to ebay now

Why because unless you want a mint/as new copy you can have this one

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't expect that how much do you want for it?

You can have it f.o.c. Wont cost much to post so if you want it its yours. Just PM your name and address and I will post in the next ew days.

[Electric Leyland]

Bought a cheap box of car mags at a sunday carboot-made a crap offer when they are packing up

Safer vw motoring/practical classics/street machine/fast ford/classic american a right assortment . But I really wanted the 1987/1988 ici autocolour paints colours catalogue that was there and it has the vin plate decoder for ford/vauxhall too .

In the June 2005 Practical classics(which I allready have) is this..........

Hey its Electric Leyland in the feature that he later took charge of Was it this viva that spawned the idea of Autoshite

Haha well spotted Rootes. I remember being really dissappointed in not making it three Star Prize wins on the trot with that effort.

 

Incidentally the dodgy looking bloke kicking the Viva's tyres is none other than Mr H Sceptre, one of 2 appearrances in RIP if I remember rightly.

[Guest]

The bloke who did work on my Amazon lives in Braunstone Town in Leicester. How very bloody weird.

[trigger]

These might be of interest to some of you on here if you live near Rugby, Got to be worth a tenner?.

 

116 Custom Car magazines from 1970-84

[Guest]

Fun book for peanuts from a charity shop

Quite a good book......Features

AC Petite

Alfa romeo Arna

Allard clipper

AMC Pacer

Austin Gipsy

Austin Allegto

Bedford Beagle

Bond Minicar

Burney streamline

Chrysler 180/2 litre

Citroen Bijou

Dacia denem

Hyundai Pony

etc etc

[fotorabia]

We grabbed this Capt.Scarlet annual 1968 a while back for $5..and then on the Auction where i work was a box of misc. toys.In it was the Spectrum Patrol car..i lost in the bidding war so was sad..then the box came back the next week..the guy that bought it only wanted the farming Fun Ho[NZ]..and didnt want the Gerry Anderson creation so i got it for $10 minus wages=free..

[Simon M]

Fun book for peanuts from a charity shop

I bought that new - the follow-up, 'Mad Cars' is good too, and both are blessed with lovely pictures. Giles Chapman's one of the better motoring writers, though I can detect his influence in all those MSN/AOL 'worst cars ever' top ten lists.

[Spottedlaurel]

Giles Chapman's one of the better motoring writers, though I can detect his influence in all those MSN/AOL 'worst cars ever' top ten lists.

I met Giles Chapman when I bought a vast quantity of brochures off him a few years ago, very nice chap. He once wrote a piece in the Telegraph (IIRC) about his Bluebird estate, which he seemed quite fond of.Your above comment could equally apply to Richard Bremner, his "Dogs" piece in Car magazine was good because he at least seemed to have some direct experience of many of the cars written about.As for the ABC, I've just finished reading a 1987 biography by Lee Iacocca (ex Ford and Chrysler President), purchased for 40p at a National Trust secondhand bookshop. While he possibly overplays his days at Ford, reading about the torrid time they had at Chrysler in the late '70s was rather relevant to today's situation.

[r.welfare]

"Chapman's Car Compendium" is another decent book, got given a copy by my mother-in-law for Christmas. Chapman seems to have popped up on BBC3/4 as a motoring talking head recently, he was the launch editor of Your Classic I believe.I think I've got that Iacocca book, SL - one of several I've (inexplicably) collected about the big man and his Chrysler decade. The autobiographies are hard reading, mainly because he's plainly got a bigger ego than even Steve Wright At the moment I am (re-)reading "On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors" by John DeLorean - another interesting perspective of the US industry's complacency and malaise in the 60s and 70s. Again, a lot of what is said there can equally be applied to the current situation...