Crap cars

by Richard Porter

Paper Book, 2004

Call number

629.209 / 55F

Collection

Publication

London : BBC Books, c2004.

Description

A visual feast of fifty of the most craptastic cars ever to hit the American highway. 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.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member vicarofdibley
OMG ! i have had threee of the crappiest cars ever
Funny read if you don't own or have owned any of the buggers

Language

Physical description

127 p.; 16 cm

ISBN

0563522100 / 9780563522102

Other editions

Crap cars by Richard Porter (Paper Book)

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