Fascinating book presents car brochures from a time when there were no sat navs and locks and radiators had to be de-iced.

There was a time, Jonny Trunk reminds us in the introduction to his new book, Auto Erotica, when cars had no electric windows, no sat navs, no central locking, no power steering and drivers had to de-ice the locks and radiator when it was freezing cold.

Jonny sets out his evidence in the tome with a time-travel 'grand tour' through British car brochures from the 1960s to the 1980s that's 'packed full of era-defining classic cars, from those we love to those you can’t remember'.

'These were cars you had to drive and suffer slightly while you were doing it,' says Jonny....


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The Ford Anglia - aka 'The Harry Potter Car' was apparently a 'real car for your money'.

Jonny reveals in Auto Erotica that when he was young he told a friend of his mum's that he wanted a Ford Anglia when he grew up.

The Maxi, which was first produced in 1969, as 'lacklustre'.

It was made by Austin, which was established in 1905 by Herbert Austin and went on to make Lancaster bombers before multiple mergers over the years with Morris Motors, Jaguar and Leyland.

The Peugeot 504, a mid-size, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive automobile manufactured and marketed by Peugeot from 1968 - 1983 over a single generation, primarily in four-door sedan and wagon configurations as well as pickup truck variants.

Peugeot sold globally about 2.3 million units of the 504 in various configurations.

The Morris story is an incredible one, as Jonny reveals.

The founder was one William Morris, who set up his first business in 1892, a bicycle repair shop.

By 1902 he was working on motorcycles.

By 1912 he had designed a car.

Then he built more at a disused military training ground in Cowley, Oxford.

In 1919 he built 400 cars using Henry Ford's mass production techniques.

In 1925 he made 45,000 cars.

The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is a two-door, rear-engine economy car, intended for five occupants (later restricted to four people in some countries), that was manufactured and marketed by German automaker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003.

Lead engineer Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalise the design.

With 21,529,464 produced, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single platform ever made.

Henry Ford's company has always had a knack for producing popular cars.

The 1908 Model T 'revolutionised and motorised middle America, selling more than 15million units in the process'.

Pictured here is the car that in the 1970s became the UK's best-seller the Cortina

Mercedes Benz W114 (1968)

Vauxhall was founded by Scotsman Alexander Wilson in 1857 as a marine-engine manufacturer, was building cars by 1903 and was sold to America's General Motors in 1925, reveals Jonny.

Fast forward to 1963, the Viva range ran for the next 16 years.

The Austin Allegro (1973 to 1982) was nicknamed 'Flying Pig' owing to its looks and rather questionable performance'.

The origins of DAF can be traced back to 1928, when Dutchman Hubert Van Doorne founded a truck manufacturer.

The company became DAF in 1932 and car production began in 1958.

The 46 appeared in 1974 and the first 55 Marathon in 1972, which the female model in this brochure picture clearly found to be a thrilling development.

BOOKED

Any thread from Explorers is sure to hit FP.

Let me enjoy my FTC in peace.

Shout out to Nigerians hustling legitimately. Do not lose hope. One day you shall smile and be grateful you stayed legit.

If you are seeing this, be aware that Buhari is a vegetable and devoid of any modicum of reasoning. He has made sapa a regular phenomenon.

Hakuna ma sapa everybody.

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1966 Bedford camper

Lamborghini, founded by Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, had two early successes the Miura and the exotic Countach, explains Jonny.

However, the company went bankrupt in 1978 (four years after the first Countach was produced), was revived by the French Mimran brothers in 1984, sold to the Chrysler Corporation in 1987 and is now part of the Audi AG group.

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Hillman began life as a British bicycle manufacturer then moved into cars in 1907, reveals Jonny.

He continues: 'The British company fell under the control of the Rootes Group and merged with Humber in 1928.

They were a relatively straightforward car manufacturer until 1963 when the Hillman Imp and its fastback brother, the Californian, were introduced.

The Citroen 2CV or Deux Chevaux (literally two horsepower) was introduced, explains Jonny, as a bestselling alternative to the horse in 1948.

The supremely successful XJ series, launched in 1968, saw Jaguar through until the 1980s, says Jonny.

Its predecessors were 'the quick and compact Mark II (1959)' which 'became popular with police and burglars alike' and 'the globally iconic E-Type (1961) called "the most beautiful car in the world" by Enzo Ferrari'.

Jonny reveals that he drives 'an old and slightly battered 1968 Triumph Herald', adding: 'It’s built like a grown-up go-kart and has a strange charisma and real personality. It stinks of old leather, oil and petrol.

When you drive it everyone looks and points and some even wind down their window for a chat about "the old days"'

Auto Erotica by Jonny Trunk is published by Fuel Design & Publishing (£24.95).

Peugeot J5

Nothing to see here.
Just another thread that affirms the ego of the "Vanity Crew". :/

Where is that Volvo 774 or what's the name again?

That car ehhnn, if e bash corolla now é go bẹ like squeezed paper

Yazzz. J5 back in those days na so so accident.

We v gone a long way as human, only God knows how things will turn out to be in 100 years time.

I just knew Peugeot will be there.....

The lion has always being around & will always be around. All d Peugeots mentioned above can still be found operational on d road even in Nigeria