Sunday, October 16, 2005
Crap Cars, The Book
Related Entries: Automobiles
What do the Yugo, Fiero and Renault Fuego all have in common? They are all Crap Cars
. The book, Crap Cars is written by Richard Porter, who is a screenwriter for BBC’s Top Gear (one of my favorite shows) so you know it’s good. The book features fugly cars made from 1960 to 2002… a great book to have on your coffee table.Amazon book description:
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.
Crap Cars is the perfect gift for anyone who loves cars or the casualties of bad taste, or for that special someone who misses their own beloved, long-gone piece of crap.
- Amazon.com — Crap Cars
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