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Total Lemons

Total Lemons

One Hundred and Eleven Heroic Failures of Motoring

by Tony Davis
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/08/2012

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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.
ISBN:
9780733330865
9780733330865
Category:
Motor cars: general interest
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-08-2012
Publisher:
ABC Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
165x141x23mm
Weight:
0.37kg
Tony Davis

Tony Davis is a retired Military Intelligence Lieutenant Colonel, former country director for a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization in South Korea, and currently living and working in New York City. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in international relations. He is a graduate of both the US Army Command and General Staff College and the Joint Forces Staff College and is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in professional writing from New York University.

In 1990, Tony began serving his country in the United States Army as a career military intelligence officer, retiring from Special Operations Command as a lieutenant colonel in 2011. In the interim, from commissioning to retirement, Tony served in a wide variety of staff and leadership positions globally, including combat operations in Iraq. Other overseas assignments and deployments include Germany, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Egypt, Croatia, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Bangladesh, and many others.

His hobbies include SCUBA diving, classical guitar, and traveling (forty-nine countries and forty-five states so far and counting).

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