Ladybird books MOTOR CARS (1972)

Superb! I won't sleep tonight with the notion of a PC Cresta being 'Of modern appearance'....This has to be the shiters bible, Blandcrabs and MK4 Zephyrs....

3.6k · February 6, 2011

ahh No. 584

great stuff

I collect Ladybird books, i currently have about 1200, and by the end of the year should be touching 1500

their prices have been rising steadily for the last 20 years

32,529 · February 6, 2011

GR8 stuff Pog, you've just reminded me of another book that i will post in the grin thread i think...

5k · February 6, 2011

wow class, thanks fer sharing

2,352 · February 6, 2011

I see they had nothing positive to say about the Marina other than "this is a car" or words to that effect. Also the Triumph Toledo is "basically a 1300 with less doors" They were already lost as to what Triumph were doing with that shell!

GR8 SCANZ

63,151 · February 6, 2011

"Inexpensive 2-door Escort" is not a phrase which is often seen written nowadays.

34,069 · February 6, 2011

Excellent scans - thank you for sharing!

I love the illustrations

17,925 · February 7, 2011

Wow this takes me back! I used to carry this to school with me almost every day as a small child. My first exposure to Reliant Regals and NSU Ro80s, though of course there was no chance of seeing either on the road by then. I'd forgotten how much shite was in this, but looking at it now I realise I can remember almost every car on every page... The white Vauxhall was a big favourite after I saw 'Randall & Hopkirk' the first time..

9,218 · February 7, 2011

I used to have the '68 edition.

Best book I ever purloined from the school library. I had the commercial vehicles issue. too. That library was very generous over the years.

43,609 · February 7, 2011

I was brought up on that book.

No, I didn't get anything else. Just that book.

I blame that book for everything.

3,709 · February 7, 2011

^ +1

2.4k · February 7, 2011

Great stuff. I remember these from school when the cars in it would already be 10 to 15 years old. I have an earlier example somewhere but this one is much better.

12,815 · February 7, 2011

I've not seen this book for 35 years. Thanks for sharing.

4,461 · February 7, 2011

This is a new one on me. Cheers Pog.

I only have experience of one motoring themed Ladybird book and that was a raggedy old 50s/60s copy of 'Tootles the Taxi' . Loved it

28,877 · February 7, 2011

Yay! I had Tootles The Taxi too, pretty sure I don't any more. However I do have a 1963 edition of the Ladybird Book of Motor Cars, without the dust jacket sadly. It does show the A40 in 1098cc spec, and tells me mine should produce 48 bhp. Was that really all we needed in a small family car back then?

1.3k · February 7, 2011

I must have read that "Tootles the Taxi" book over and over when I was a kid. I remember that I found the pictures slightly sinister with their 'leering' faces...especially this bus one.

Probably like everyone on here, I played for hours and hours with toy cars. These were other games I owned when a nipper......

This was a slightly boring board game where you progressed round a race track with a matchbox car by throwing a dice and picking up various 'instruction' cards. You would inevitably 'crash' with an opponents car in the centre box.

A sort of 'poor mans' Scalextric, again with Matchbox cars connected to a spring threaded through a plastic road that moved forward via brittle,sharp edged throttles.

Fairly self explanatory really....I had the bottom one, with the blue Lotus Europa. The little flags at the end would fall to whichever side finished first, which I thought was very clever....at 7 years old.

There was another really ancient one where you had to pretend to take your driving test in a little magnetic, plastic car on a board with roads drawn on. You operated it via a thin metal lever that moved a magnet under the board which moved the car. It must have been really crappy cos I can't find a picture of it anywhere.

43,609 · February 8, 2011

^ I always wanted them.

Used to paw over the Matchbox catalogues, and the Corgi ones. But not the Britains Farm ones

edit: other thread on this stuff spotted

February 9, 2011

Yay! I had Tootles The Taxi too, pretty sure I don't any more. However I do have a 1963 edition of the Ladybird Book of Motor Cars, without the dust jacket sadly. It does show the A40 in 1098cc spec, and tells me mine should produce 48 bhp. Was that really all we needed in a small family car back then?

Yes i think its the best car way back then because of its colors, sizes. And designed are quality made.Tootles the taxi was very fun and exiting when i was first read it. Even tractors way back then was most likely the old styles and have a same designed to the cars in the late 1960's.

12,815 · February 9, 2011

Anyone remember the other kiddies book from the early seventies, 'Ready the Mini' ? 'Ready' was a Mini Pickup.

"Ready gets a PDI done and various loose bolts left by the workshy Longbridge militants tightened up'.

"Ready goes out of his fucking mind in pain as some cunt in rigger boots welds cover sills on'

Etc etc.

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