Product Description: Diecast-metal Dinky Toys arrived in 1934. In 1953, Lesney launched the Matchbox series. Mettoy brought its Corgi range in 1956, with working suspension, seats, steering wheels, and opening doors and hoods. The brand hit the jackpot with its James Bond movie tie-in: a 1:43 scale Aston Martin DB5 with working versions of the on-screen gadgets, including ejector seat...read more

Product Description: After World War II, new cars in Britain were very hard to come by. Most new models had to go for export, or were reserved for drivers with pressing needs, such as doctors. Petrol was rationed, roads inadequate, and modern technology lacking...read more

Product Description: Every weekend, throughout the year, an enormous number of British people flock to Car Boot Sales. At any one event, hundreds of them are selling off unwanted possessions or inherited junk to free up space at home and raise useful extra money...read more

Book by Chapman, Giles

Product Description: The complete history of the Volkswagen BeetleThe KdF car, a German acronym for Strength Through Joy, was conceived by Adolf Hitler's Third Reich as a true German "people's car." There is little in the legacy of 1930s Nazi Germany that is positive, but after World War II—and with a little help from the British—the Volks Wagen really did help put the average man on the road in a car, designed by the great Ferdinand Porsche, that was reliable and well-built...read more

Product Description: A unique look at the development of the Transit Well-known transportation writer Giles Chapman tells the complete story of the Ford Transit, from its origins to its enduring popularity among the modern working person. The history and development of the Transit is explored here, alongside plenty of photos...read more

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.

Product Description: With an average of over 200,000 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 from 1962, when the first Consul Cortina took its bow, to the mid-1990s, by which time the huge majority of the four-million-plus sold had gone to that scrapyard in the sky...read more

This chunky format, retro-feel encyclopedia reviews 150 of the most incredible cars in motoring history from the earliest to experiments for the future. Each automobile is illustrated and accompanied by informative text, a colorful quote, and a specifications box. Distributed generously throughout the book are delightful photographic spreads showing cars that are typical of their era. The chapters trace the story from the first steam-powered vehicles and the Ford Model T, to favorites such as the James Bond amphibian car, the holder of the supersonic land speed record, and right up to the latest Air car, which has been hailed as the true car of tomorrow.

Product Description: This fascinating book features 100 of the classic trademark cutaway drawings that have appeared on the front covers of Haynes car manuals over the years. Each cutaway is presented across a double-page spread with accompanying text and specifications about the car in question...read more

Product Description: Dad may have always seemed a man of simple pleasures who only needed a cold drink, a new power drill, and a home cooked meal to be happy. But Dad had dreams too, and don't think he was entirely content with that wood-paneled Dodge Caravan or that Ford Pinto the driveway either...read more

Product Description: At last: a book packed with addictive automotive trivia aimed at every car fan worldwide. Intended to be dipped into (although inevitably read from cover to cover, in the best tradition of all good reference books), Chapman's Car Compendium takes the reader on a fascinating global journey of bumper-to-bumper facts and other miscellanea...read more

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.

Containing facts, anecdotes and photographs of the cars, this book takes a behind-the-scenes look at four-wheeled stars from the world of television. It covers classic programmes such as 'The Avengers' and 'Starsky and Hutch', series such as 'Mr Bean' and 'Only Fools and Horses', and shows such as 'Life on Mars' and 'The Apprentice'.

Product Description: The sport utility vehicle -- the SUV -- has become an integral part of the motoring landscape of the twenty-first century, but it is far from a modern phenomenon. This book, the first comprehensive history of the SUV and its design, analyses in individual profiles the fifty most important SUVs ever produced, from the earliest jeeps and Land Rovers of the Second World War to today's 'crossover' vehicles such as the Volvo XC90 and Chrysler Pacifica...read more