Takes a behind-the-scenes look at four-wheeled stars from the world of television. This work covers programmes such as: The Avengers and Starsky and Hutch , Mr Bean , and more. It also includes facts, anecdotes and photographs of the cars and their star drivers from the nation's favourite cop shows, dramas, sci-fi classics and documentaries.
'White Van Man' is a larger-than-life presence on Britain's road, but he's no fool. Given the choice, he inevitably opts for a Ford Transit - and indeed he has been doing so, more than for any other van, for the past 45-plus years.
Features 100 of the trademark cutaway drawings that have appeared on the front of Haynes car manuals. This book presents the cutaways across a double-page spread with accompanying text and specification about the car in question.
Takes a nostalgic look at the world's best-loved and most significant automobiles. Suitable for boys of all ages, this title lets you drive down memory lane with this celebration of 150 of the world's greatest cars, from the weird and wonderful to the largest, fastest and most infamous.
A fascinating and amusing book of automotive miscellanea from around the world, authoritatively compiled by award-winning car journalist Giles Chapman, a regular contributor to Auto Express magazine.
Spanning the 1950s to the '80s, this work celebrates the heyday of the Dad car. It features great Dad cars from much loved family workhorses like the Ford Cortina and Vauxhall Viva to the rakish excitement and playground kudos of the Rover 3500 and Citroen CX.
With an average of over 200000 sold each year during the car's incredible two-decade life, the Ford Cortina remains one of the most individually popular cars Britain has ever seen. This book celebrates the Cortina's place as a major part of everyday life for so many families.
Very few cars inspire as much affection as the original Mini. It's the small car everyone loves to eulogise because it oozes energetic fun, classless minimalism and evergreen style.
They don't make 'bad' cars any more, right? Well, maybe not, but there have been some real clunkers in years gone by. This book contains hundreds of pictures of these unreliable, rusty, hideous-looking and just plain mad machines, as well as facts about them.
A book that takes a behind-the-scenes look at four-wheeled stars from television. It covers classic programmes of the past, such as The Avengers and Starsky and Hutch , recent series such as Mr. Bean and Only Fools and Horses , and modern shows such as Life on Mars and The Apprentice , with a few surprises along the way.
Don't you believe it when people say there's no such thing as a 'British' car any more. As a nation, the calamity of British Leyland and MG Rover lingers in our collective conscience, but car factories in Britain today build some of the world's most advanced and desirable cars.
What Europe needed after the Second World War was an ultra-reliable workhorse to get small businesses on the move again. And, with a little nudge from the Dutch, that's what Volkswagen provided in 1950 with its Transporter van. It was no fireball, but rock-solid quality meant it always delivered the goods.