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Microcar Mania - The Definitive History of the Small Car by Chris Rees, a fantastic book packed with 176 pages all about microcars.
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Microcar Mania: Definitive History of the Small Car
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Bookmarque, Oxfordshire UK, 1995
ISBN 10: 1870519183
ISBN 13: 9781870519182
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oxfordshire UK: Bookmarque, 1995. Very informative book on microcars and the people involved with them, 176 pages in very bright clean condition, many B/w photographs and illustrations, all present as listed plus very informative text, Dustwrapper is also very bright and clean, not price clipped, A very nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 9 ¾ x 7 Inches. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # 009647
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Microcar Mania - The Definitive History of the Small Car
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. Microcar Mania ? The Definitive History of the Small Car (1995) by Chris Rees Bookmarque Publishing | ISBN: 9781870519182 Condition: Good As sold by Crappy Old Books If you?ve ever looked at a tiny bubble-shaped vehicle and thought, ?That can?t possibly be a real car,? congratulations ? you have already experienced the essential emotion of microcar appreciation : disbelief, followed by affection, followed by the quiet realisation that someone once drove one of these to work every day with a straight face and a packed lunch. Microcar Mania is Chris Rees? lovingly detailed celebration of the small car in all its brave, baffling glory ? a definitive history of those glorious little machines that arrived when fuel was dear, roads were narrow, post-war budgets were tight, and ?close enough? counted as engineering. This is the world of Isettas and Messerschmitts, Peel-sized improbabilities, three-wheel contraptions, door-on-the-front marvels, and vehicles that look like they should be dispensed with a coin slot and a gentle push. And yet microcars weren?t jokes. They were solutions. They were mobility on a budget. They were ingenuity squeezed into ridiculous dimensions. They were the moment someone said, ?I want the freedom of the open road,? and the open road replied, ?Fine, but you?re taking half of it.? Rees covers the full story: where these cars came from, why they existed, how different countries approached the same problem, and how manufacturers managed to produce machines that were part scooter, part aircraft cockpit, part optimistic tin box ? and somehow still legal. It?s automotive history at its most entertaining, because the microcar era was essentially a giant experiment in how little ?car? you can get away with while still calling it a car. The joy is in the details: strange engines, strange layouts, strange styling decisions that now look like pop art. You get the cultural context too ? the post-war need for cheap transport, the social shift from two wheels to four, and the way microcars became symbols of thrift, modernity, and occasionally quiet embarrassment. (There is a special kind of courage involved in arriving at a date in something that looks like a friendly toaster.) And there?s something deeply likeable about microcars precisely because they?re not macho. They don?t posture. They don?t roar. They buzz. They toddle. They do their best. They?re the antidote to oversized modern motoring: a reminder that travel can be an adventure even at 40mph, and that ?performance? is relative when you?re negotiating a hill with a tailwind and a prayer. This copy is Good , meaning it?s been enjoyed as intended ? flipped through, admired, perhaps used to settle an argument about which microcar had the front-opening door or which one could technically carry two adults if both adults were agreeable and not too attached to personal space. Perfect for: classic car fans who like the odd, the ingenious, and the adorable anyone who enjoys the weirder corners of engineering history readers who suspect the golden age of motoring might have been the age of smallness From Crappy Old Books : because bigger isn?t always better. Sometimes the most lovable cars are the ones that look like they were designed during a tea break, built with optimism, and then driven heroically into history. Seller Inventory # 6769
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Microcar Mania The Definitive History of the Small Car [SIGNED]
Seller: Motoring Memorabilia, WOKINGHAM, BERKS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. A very good copy of this rare Special Collectors' Limited Edition book, Number 121 of 200 copies which is presented in an illustrated slip case. The book covers the world's smallest cars from the three wheeler upwards, from Abarth to Zwickau, and the people behind them. SIGNED by the author. Inventory # G1852. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 002152
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Microcar Mania: Definitive History of the Small Car [SIGNED]
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1995 Bookmarque Publishing hardcover edition in slipcase. Light reading wear else very good condition. Number 162 of a limited edition of 200 signed copies. Seller Inventory # 3B-ALMZ-OU8W
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book. Seller Inventory # ERICA82918705191834
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