Book description
A funny and fascinating journey through more than 200 years of
motoring, highlighting the oddest, craziest, and most interesting cars
ever built. The fastest, the sleekest, the most famous and the
strangest! This fascinating high-speed look at more than 200 years of
motoring will have you marvelling - and sometimes laughing out loud - at
cars that float and fly and walk, cars made from plastic and even bamboo
and cars that are knee-high or as long as a bus. You too will be asking
Are You For Wheel? What famous Australian family car was nearly named
the Koala? How did the Dynasphere, a car with just one wheel, stay
upright? Heard about the trend-setting hybrid built by a lawnmower
company? Did you know that the man who invented the car also invented
the car crash? What car was known as the duck, the tin snail and the
upside-down pram, yet sold in the millions? Heard about the car with a
whopping 36 cylinders? What about the one that was powered by a fan -
and looked like a hair dryer? Tony Davis is widely blamed for
Australian bestseller Lemon! 60 Heroic Failures of Motoring has been
adapted into the hit book for kids, You Must Be Skidding! He is also
responsible for the eccentric literary memoir F. Scott, Ernest and Me,
plus the children's medieval adventure series Roland Wright, Future
Knight. Before courageously leaving a well-paid job to be a full-time
author, Tony had a long and successful career in newspapers, magazines
and publishing. Tony lives in northern Sydney with his wife Carolyn and
their three sons, William, James and Daniel.
