Autoshite book sale! Much cheapness

[r.welfare]

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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.

[chaseracer]

Can I have 'End of the Road', 'World Cars 1977' and the Caprice book, please?

[r.welfare]

Yup. pm forthcoming

[Micrashed]

Can I have the "lets call it Fiesta" book posted please?

[spike60]

Peter Brock please! Ta.

[r.welfare]

Sure, PM's will arrive shortly.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'd love to have the Range Rover and Escort Brooklands books please.

[Station]

What's the book with the cat shagging the Fiesta about?

[chaseracer]

The Nissan Micra 

[sporty-shite]

Road and Track Volkswagen, please.

[r.welfare]

Wowzer.  All interested parties PM'd.  Apologies to shoppers at Basingstoke Poundland, I've cleaned them out of large Jiffy bags.

[r.welfare]

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

 

• 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

[r.welfare]

Sure.  PM'd.

[Jim Bergerac]

Can I have Back from the Brink please?

[r.welfare]

Sure. PM'd.

[overrun]

I am too late for the mk3 Escort and mk1 Fiestat titles.

Curses.

 

I shall keep an eye on the next batch you list.

[holbeck]

Hmmm.. seems I'm a bit late to the party.

 

Anyways, can I have:

 

Behind the wheel @ Chrysler 

Comeback Fall and rise etc

Best of CAR 60's

 

ta muchly

[r.welfare]

Sure - heavy, so I've PM'd you the Hermes cost.

[spike60]

Can I have the John Delorean autobiog please? I've already bags I'd the Peter Brock one, let me know how much more. Ta.

[r.welfare]

No problem - PM coming.

[r.welfare]

For those who have already paid, I'll go to the Post Office (or Hermes drop-off point) first thing Monday.  Many thanks, and any more for any more?

[AnthonyG]

Hi Richard 

 

Can I bagsy 

 

The two Ford Taurus ones - Mary Walton and Eric Taub.

Call me Roger

Jaguar X-JS Brooklands road tests 

'Lion' Commodore 78-99

Aussie Lemons

Rivethead 

 

Don't worry about posting - I can come and collect 

[r.welfare]

PM'd.

[holbeck]

poor old James May, nobody wants his book.

[r.welfare]

It's actually quite good...

[Simon M]

Can I have the two Observers books, please?  I'll take James May as well cos I feel sorry for him!

[r.welfare]

Sure. I'll PM you.

 

Hey Sporty-shite, do you still want this VW road test book?

[Guest Lord Sward]

Is there anything left?

[r.welfare]

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

[Station]

Is the Ford vs Nissan one left? Is it heavy on US car industry or contain lots of Japanese info?