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| anyone remember "World Cars" [message #797196] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 01:49 |
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Was unpacking some long-packed bookshelf material, and I found four
volumes of an annual called "World Cars" by the Automobile Club of
Italy. If I remember correctly this was a very expensive book, but
after a while they'd go on deep discount at Classic Motorbooks (are they
still around?) and you could pick up a couple year old edition for maybe
$15-20 or so. This piqued my curiosity, seeing as we're in a completely
different age now where you can just find out stuff by sitting down at a
keyboard, but a quick google found that aside from a couple books for
sale at Amazon (all but one of which I already had) not much info was to
be found.
I was just curious for how many years these were published, what the
story was behind this nearly mind-bogglingly OCD attempt to catalog
every single car model produced worldwide every year, etc.
The books themselves are fascinating; looking up one's favorite car is
likely to only tell you things that you already know, and you may find a
factual error here or there, but it's also fun to just pick a country
where you've never visited and look at all the weird, low-production
stuff that was available.
Anyone else know what I'm talking about, and know anything more about
the series? I picked these up as a kid and remember spending hours
being fascinated by all the cars that appeared to be one step away from
kit cars built in England and other northern European countries... also
discovered very interesting stuff like a European International Scout
based vehicle (now that that's popped into my head after all these
years, I'm going to have to look it up... Monteverdi I think?)
I might just have to pop for the one edition I saw on Amazon that I
didn't have, just so I can have *five* of these things taking up space
on my shelf...
Sort of along the same lines, I see Tad Burness released another
spotter's guide a while back while I wasn't paying attention, covering
1981-1990. Worth buying? I have the "monstrous" one, so the completist
in me tells me I should buy it, but that was kind of the dark ages of
American cars...
nate
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| Re: anyone remember "World Cars" [message #797220 ] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 05:55 |
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On Mar 5, 4:49=A0pm, Nate Nagel <njna... [at] roosters.net> wrote:
> Was unpacking some long-packed bookshelf material, and I found four
> volumes of an annual called "World Cars" by the Automobile Club of
> Italy. =A0If I remember correctly this was a very expensive book, but
> after a while they'd go on deep discount at Classic Motorbooks (are they
> still around?) and you could pick up a couple year old edition for maybe
> $15-20 or so. =A0This piqued my curiosity, seeing as we're in a completely=
> different age now where you can just find out stuff by sitting down at a
> keyboard, but a quick google found that aside from a couple books for
> sale at Amazon (all but one of which I already had) not much info was to
> be found.
>
> I was just curious for how many years these were published, what the
> story was behind this nearly mind-bogglingly OCD attempt to catalog
> every single car model produced worldwide every year, etc.
>
> The books themselves are fascinating; looking up one's favorite car is
> likely to only tell you things that you already know, and you may find a
> factual error here or there, but it's also fun to just pick a country
> where you've never visited and look at all the weird, low-production
> stuff that was available.
>
> Anyone else know what I'm talking about, and know anything more about
> the series? =A0I picked these up as a kid and remember spending hours
> being fascinated by all the cars that appeared to be one step away from
> kit cars built in England and other northern European countries... =A0also=
> discovered very interesting stuff like a European International Scout
> based vehicle (now that that's popped into my head after all these
> years, I'm going to have to look it up... =A0Monteverdi I think?)
>
> I might just have to pop for the one edition I saw on Amazon that I
> didn't have, just so I can have *five* of these things taking up space
> on my shelf...
>
> Sort of along the same lines, I see Tad Burness released another
> spotter's guide a while back while I wasn't paying attention, covering
> 1981-1990. =A0Worth buying? =A0I have the "monstrous" one, so the completi=
st
> in me tells me I should buy it, but that was kind of the dark ages of
> American cars...
>
> nate
>
> --
> replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.http://members.cox.net/njnagel
Give me a call when you get to the "lower left" and I'll give you a
tour of "my" library.
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| Re: anyone remember "World Cars" [message #797247 ] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 17:22 |
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Yes, I used to go through those at the library when I was younger. Very
interesting. There were a couple others I also enjoyed. They were more
like automobile histories with various models over the years and all car
pictures were drawn. I wore those books out as I looked through them so
much. I believe one was by Tad Burgess. Not sure about the other, which
had MANY models of cars in it, right up through the '60s. I'd LOVE to find
that latter book, as it was my favorite about cars.
John B.
"Nate Nagel" <njnagel [at] roosters.net> wrote in message
news:fqnf3j01gfg [at] news2.newsguy.com...
> Was unpacking some long-packed bookshelf material, and I found four
> volumes of an annual called "World Cars" by the Automobile Club of
> Italy. If I remember correctly this was a very expensive book, but
> after a while they'd go on deep discount at Classic Motorbooks (are they
> still around?) and you could pick up a couple year old edition for maybe
> $15-20 or so. This piqued my curiosity, seeing as we're in a completely
> different age now where you can just find out stuff by sitting down at a
> keyboard, but a quick google found that aside from a couple books for
> sale at Amazon (all but one of which I already had) not much info was to
> be found.
>
> I was just curious for how many years these were published, what the
> story was behind this nearly mind-bogglingly OCD attempt to catalog
> every single car model produced worldwide every year, etc.
>
> The books themselves are fascinating; looking up one's favorite car is
> likely to only tell you things that you already know, and you may find a
> factual error here or there, but it's also fun to just pick a country
> where you've never visited and look at all the weird, low-production
> stuff that was available.
>
> Anyone else know what I'm talking about, and know anything more about
> the series? I picked these up as a kid and remember spending hours
> being fascinated by all the cars that appeared to be one step away from
> kit cars built in England and other northern European countries... also
> discovered very interesting stuff like a European International Scout
> based vehicle (now that that's popped into my head after all these
> years, I'm going to have to look it up... Monteverdi I think?)
>
> I might just have to pop for the one edition I saw on Amazon that I
> didn't have, just so I can have *five* of these things taking up space
> on my shelf...
>
> Sort of along the same lines, I see Tad Burness released another
> spotter's guide a while back while I wasn't paying attention, covering
> 1981-1990. Worth buying? I have the "monstrous" one, so the completist
> in me tells me I should buy it, but that was kind of the dark ages of
> American cars...
>
> nate
>
> --
> replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.
> http://members.cox.net/njnagel
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