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Crap Cars | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Porter
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 188823
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1582346380
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.222
EAN: 9781582346380
ASIN: 1582346380
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New - may have a small remainder mark on the edge.
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Product 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.
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 fun fun fun March 7, 2008
Good insights although a gearhead might have his own insights that differ. Mine certainly do but I appreciate it for being a good effort.
Some of the verbiage gets repetitive but overall it is fun. A great book for storing on the lid of the toilet tank.
a fun little gift for the car enthusiast! September 12, 2007
This book is hilarious-- very entertaining and brings back so many memories of the cars we had growing up! Makes a great gag gift or stocking stuffer for the automotive enthusiast in your life!
 Entertaining coffee table book May 14, 2007
I bought this book after reading it. It was entertaining, accurate, and talked about many of the cars I well remember and loathe. This was a time period after the 60's, the best decade in automotive history. I am 56 and was in high school during the 60s. Cars were fun, exciting, and that decade produced many classics. Than the government, in its infinite wisdom decided it was time reign in the fun. I think automotive companies spent the next several years trying to find themselves and a new direction, which really has not yet been accomplished. This book deals with that period. Also it put the VW beetle in its place, a truely dangerous crap car that was killed by those new government laws after it killed many people.
I docked the rating a star for two reasons;
1. The Mustang II is better than at least 15 of the other cars in the book. Granted it was horrible assault on the good "Mustang" name, but it was far better than the VW beetle, vega, pinto, gremlin, pacer, yugo, and geo metro to name a few. It was a cute little car, usually with a cute little driver. If you could find one of these on the road you might find someone worth dating (and marrying).
2. No book of this nature can be complete without mentioning the 1982 Pontiac Bonneville. This car, if mentioned, would have been well into the bottom half of these 50 cars. This car was so ugly and such an insult to the Bonneville name I believe it was one of the cars that contributed to the GM decline. Oh yes, I was available with a diesel engine.
This is a funny, light hearted, coffee table book that is well worth the money and will lead to hours of nostelgic conversation with your guests.
Keep it in the crapper! December 27, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a funny book. I kept my copy next to the toilet and read the book over a period of visitations, which took maybe three days. I loved the book so much, I gave it to a friend, who put it near his toilet for light reading.
A tradition is born.
There are some people who did not like this book. They are not fun people. They are sad people. Ignore their bleatings and moanings.
Get the book. Give the book
 Funny, Although I've Never Even Heard of Most of These Cars November 22, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book does have its funny moments and if you can actually relate to the cars, ie you have or know someone who has owned them then I have no doubt you would be rating this book five stars. The problem though that Porter has created is that unless you live in North America, are wealthy enough to afford BMWs, Jags, Ferraris, Rolls Royces and the like and have also been of driving age since the 70's or 80's then most of these cars, as a reader you really can't relate to at all. Being able to relate to driving the cars is where the satisfaction and majority of humour of this book is.
Even though I'm not old enough or rich enough to know of most of these cars, never having heard of them does not mean I did not enjoy the comments. For example the story accompanying the AMC Gremlin I thought was hilarious.
The only cars I'd actually heard of are VW beetle and Suzuki 4WD and they're still around and quite popular so even though I've never driven one of these their worthiness of crap status would be somewhat questionable in my opinion. I still did enjoy the accompanying storylines on them though. A few others I've also only seen in the movies such as Back to the Future and Wayne's World so although I know what these cars look like I have never seen them being driven on the actual roads. I say these things just to emphasise that I have no idea how accurate the comments on the cars in here actually are, but I will emphasise again that these comments are funny.
Regardless of if you've heard of these cars or not you'll enjoy this book but if you are rich, live in North American and have been driving since the 70's then I think you'll get even a lot more out of Crap Cars than just the laughs that I did.
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