Total Lemons - Softcover

Davis, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073333086X ISBN 13: 9780733330865

Publisher: ABC Books, 2015

A hilarious look at 111 automotive atrocities. Bad design, appalling execution, ridiculous pretensions, ludicrous names - it's all here in this motoring hall of shame. Most of them didn't even seem like such a good idea at the time ... Cars that doubled as boats, cars that used salvaged aeroplane motors, cars as long as limousines (but only good for transporting 2 people), cars that were too skinny or too wide, much too high or ridiculously heavy, cars which looked like they had been designed by Noddy with Big Ears lending a hand. there is one place they can be stars: total Lemons, a new omnibus which lovingly brings together the 111 worst cars ever built. Here you'll find the dumpy and astonishingly incompetent Austin Allegro ('A streetcar named Dire'), the frighteningly unstable Messerschmitt cabin-scooter (a 'Postwar crime') and the exploding Ford Pinto ('Passengers alight here'). You'll meet their colleagues, brothers and sisters in automobile atrocity, including certain Holdens, Falcons, Valiants, Leylands and Lightburns. Filled with high hopes, low commonsense and photos manufacturers wish had never been taken, total Lemons is a gift book - and a warning - for the revheads in your life. As author tony Davis notes, good cars come and go, but a total lemon is forever.

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About the Author:

Tony Davis has worked as a book author, publisher, magazine editor and newspaper writer.
Originally trained and graded on THE AUSTRALIAN, he later filled a variety of editorial roles at the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, including senior journalist, features editor and chief of staff. He has reported from around the world for that paper. Tony continues to write weekly for the SMH and THE AGE as a freelance, and is the motoring columnist for the AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW.
Tony lives in Sydney

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