- Weird
Cars: A Century Of The Worlds's Strangest Cars - Haynes
has excelled itself with Weird Cars, a celebration of eccentric
cars in all shapes and sizes — some of the most ugly,
crazily designed, and downright awkward vehicles of all time.
Where else would you find, in one book, descriptions and
photographs of automotive oddities as diverse as the Aberdonia,
Gaylord Gentleman, Purves Dynasphere, Suminoe Flying Feather,
and Zil.
- Automotive
Atrocities!: The Cars We Love to Hate - Indeed, just about
every car in this book is one we love to hate but most of
them are, also, cars we all have joked about and the others
are just pathetic or weird. I mean...who can keep a straight
face while reading about Yugos, Renault Fuegos, Daihatsu Charades,
Ford Mustang II King Cobras or AMC Pacers. Then there are
(pathetic) Camaros with four-cylinder engines and (weird)
Zil limousines, Delorian.
- Corvette
Prototypes and Show Cars Photo Album - From the first
Corvette built for
General Motor's 1953 Motorama to the Sting Ray III of the
1990s, Corvette Prototypes and Show
Cars Photo Album features four generations of Corvette
prototypes and motor show cars. The evolution of America's
most popular sports car is recorded in photos of engineering
models and prototypes, motor show cars, and factory-modified
production cars.
- Crap
Cars - Crap Cars is a window into the vanity and silliness
of almost any decade as expressed through that ultimate of
status symbols: your car. Traveling from the ’60s to
the ’90s, it showcases the cheapest, the tackiest, and
the mechanically inept, including cars made by companies like
Porsche and BMW that
put them to shame. There’s also the blobby Merkur Scorpio,
the ungainly Rolls-Royce Camargue, the squarish Maserati Biturbo,
and the (ironically) flammable Renault Fuego. Each photo
spread is accompanied by a short, hilarious critique by
Richard Porter, a crap car expert, who sees straight through
all the pimped-out bodywork to the true lemon that lies underneath.
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